How to read() twice from file-like objects (and get some data)?

2006-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all, please correct me, if I do... from ClientForm import ParseResponse from urllib2 import urlopen ... response=urlopen(url) forms=ParseResponse(response) I won't be able to print response.read() in order to see HTML source anymore. In other words I will see only an empty string. Suggest

Re: How to read() twice from file-like objects (and get some data)?

2006-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Exactly what I needed! import StringIO from StringIO ... content=response.read() forms=ParseFile(StringIO(content), response.geturl()) ... Thank you all! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a different question: can you earn a living with *just* python?

2006-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Rubin wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > * C > > > > * A static functional language (ML, Haskell, etc) > > > > * Lisp or scheme Scheme > > > > * A static class-oriented language (Java, C++,

Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

2006-09-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Mikael Olofsson wrote: > > > You probably mean > > > > http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/ > > > > which is copyrighted 1999. There is also > > > > http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/ > > > > which I think is the most recent version of it. It states th

Can string formatting be used to convert an integer to its binary form ?

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, String formatting can be used to converting an integer to its octal or hexadecimal form: >>> a = 199 >>> "%o" % a '307' >>> "%x" % a 'c7' But, can string formatting be used to convert an integer to its binary form ? Thanks in advance. xiaojf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Writing 2d array in an ascci file

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I want to write an 2d array in an ascii file using numpy. There's the - tofile / fromfile - function but it doesn't work with nd array. Thanks, CH. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Recursive descent algorithm able to parse Python?

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm a compiler newbie and curious if Python grammar is able to be parsed by a recursive descent parser or if it requires a more powerful algorithm. Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Can recursive descent parser handle Python grammar?

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm a compiler newbie and was curious if Python's language/grammar can be handled by a recursive descent parser. Well? Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Since the examples out of An Introduction to Tkinter work, what else > could be useful to you is hard to guess. Basically, any kind of program using Tkinter, and has some sort of usefulness btw, I DO look at signatures believe it or not, and already (as in before I even read this post) I have

Re: wxPython and threading issue

2006-09-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patrick Smith wrote: > Hi, > I'm hoping someone here will be able to help as I've been struggling with > this problem for a few days now. > > I'm working on an application that is creating a ProgressDialog, and then > creating a thread that runs a function from another module in the program. > > Th

Re: wxPython and threading issue

2006-09-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patrick Smith wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [Re: cancelling a worker thread from the GUI thread] > > > > Have the main thread set a flag telling the worker thread to exit, an

[ANN] Spasmoidal 0.1.0 - Asynchronous I/O with Python 2.5 Extended Generators

2006-09-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"...from little towns with strange names like Smegma, Spasmodic, Frog, and the far-flung Isles of Langerhans". Someone on SourceForge has a project that includes the name 'spasmodic' so I'm using the name spasmoidal. But this code will always be spasmodic to me. Asynchronous I/O (and other tasks)

Re: wxPython and threading issue

2006-09-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Patrick Smith wrote: > > Well, the problem is that you can't simply kill a thread--it shares > > memory with other threads that it could be leaving in an inconsistent > > state. Imagine that it was, say, holding a lock when it was forceably > > killed. Now any other thread that tries to acquire t

Re: Can recursive descent parser handle Python grammar?

2006-09-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Sizer wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm a compiler newbie and was curious if Python's language/grammar > > can be handled by a recursive descent parser. > > I believe a recursive descent parser can handle any grammar; it just > depends on how pure

Re: Typing UTF-8 characters in IDLE

2006-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks, it is useful. but ,why this line "encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]" in original file"IOBinding.py " , don't work? it should be work kazuo fujimoto wrote: > Ricky, > > I found your message now, because I also would encounter the same > problem. > > > > A few unicode tutorials on

Re: AN Intorduction to Tkinter

2006-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry about that. As far as I can tell, its not anything to do with your code. I think its something with tkinter modules. Sorry about misleading you. Thanks for the help, I'm sure you'll hear from me soon again. In fact... FlyingIsFun1217 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

changing numbers to spellings

2006-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey, Sorry to bother everybody again, but this group seems to have quite a few knowledgeable people perusing it. Here's my most recent problem: For a small project I am doing, I need to change numbers into letters, for example, a person typing in the number '3', and getting the output 'Three'. So

Re: changing numbers to spellings

2006-10-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I guess I'm just looking for a small code sample hooked up to the code I gave, that would collect the input, compare it to code such as: if x==5 print "Five" elif x==6 print "Six" elif x==7 print "Seven" Something along those lines. That was actually like the code I used for someth

Multiplayer 2-D space action shooter in Python (using wxWindows)

2006-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi guys, Well, here is my humble contribution to the community: http://sourceforge.net/projects/erocket I started that project to learn Python and wxWindows. By all means, I am no Python Guru, but maybe someone could find something useful. Also please consider that it is under development and is

CGI -> mod_python

2006-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, it is a kind of nooby question. Is there a way to transfer a CGI python script to mod_python without rewriting the code? Thanks. Bernhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: app with standalone gui and web interface

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
y hosting since then, but that can be fixed. Good luck Johan Lindberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: app with standalone gui and web interface

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in one big XML file that could be saved as wxPython source. But it's sure doable. I don't know which is easier but either way, I'm guessing that you're going to have to write some code of your own. If you decide to extend/modify the wxBrowser, let me know, I might be able

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giovanni Bajo wrote: > Does this smell "Bitkeeper fiasco" to anyone else than me? I can't understand why people waste time arguing this stuff. Use whatever tool is best at it's job... if it's not written in Python it doesn't mean that Python is not good for the task, only that there hasn't been

anyone make any non-wx python plugins for boa-constructor

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was looking at vpython and it would seem to be an easy thing to add to boa-constuctors classes but I am not sure if that is possible within the boa-constructor interface. Is it possible to do without combining it with wxwindows?? Is there any examples besides the simple one that comes with

Re: Strange xml.parsers.expat import problem [corrected subject]

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was able to fix (i.e., work around) this issue by using the import: import xml.parsers.expat as expat and then referring to: expat.ExpatError I have no idea why this makes it work, seems like a bug in Python to me. -Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, that should have b

switching to numpy and failing, a user story

2006-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After using numeric for almost ten years, I decided to attempt to switch a large codebase (python and C++) to using numpy. Here's are some comments about how that went. - The code to automatically switch python stuff over just kind of works. But it was a 90% solution, I could do the rest by hand.

Which one is better for me , SIP or SWIG ?

2006-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I am going to generate a python wrapper of a C library, and I am wondering which one is a better tool for me, SIP or SWIG ? SWIG supports many scripting languages such as python, ruby, and perl, while SIP is specific to python, so I think maybe SIP is more suitable to generate better w

Re: How to pass an argument to a python program open in IDLE?

2006-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TonyHa wrote: > Hello Josh, > > Thanks for the reply. But I am not sure I understand your reply, may be > I need to explain my problem a bit more. I have a Python script which > needs an input argument to run. > e.g. python myscript.py xilinx. which run fine. > > My problem is this: When I start I

Re: determining the bounds of a tuple returned from a database

2006-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ronrsr wrote: > very sorry, that was my error - len(result[0]) and len(result[1]) both > return 1 -- > > i think I'm misunderstanding what len() does - to me they appear to > have 2 or 3 elements, or at least be composed of a string of some > length. One string composed of multiple data elements

Re: Python v PHP: fair comparison?

2006-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Luis M. González wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha escrito: > > > Luis M. González wrote: > > > OK. But since when has python been considered a viable alternative for > > > web development? > > > As a generalp purpose language, it's older. > > &g

basic python questions

2006-11-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a simple assignment for school but am unsure where to go. The assignment is to read in a text file, split out the words and say which line each word appears in alphabetical order. I have the basic outline of the program done which is: def Xref(filename): try: fp = open(filename,

Re: How can I speed this function up?

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris wrote: > This is just some dummy code to mimic what's being done in the real > code. The actual code is python which is used as a scripting language in > a third party app. The data structure returned by the app is more or > less like the "data" list in the code below. The test for "ELEMENT"

Re: basic python questions

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
work with .net and it is fun to see what other languages have and what sytax they use. Paul McGuire wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I have a simple assignment for school but am unsure where to go. The > > assignment is to read in a t

Re: basic python questions

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quot;.,!?:;") if not dict.has_key(word): dict[word] = [] dict[word].append(line_num) fp.close() keys = sorted(dict); for key in keys: print key," : ", dict[key] return dict Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EM

Re: How can I speed this function up?

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Otten wrote: > > # Norvitz/Lundh > def writelines_data(out, data, map=map, str=str): > SPACE_JOIN = ' '.join > out.writelines( > "ELEMENT %06d %s\n" % (i1, SPACE_JOIN(map(str, i2))) >for i0, i1, i2 in data if i0 == 'ELEMENT' > ) > > def print_data

Re: basic python questions

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, etc...) I would be able to find this? I am running this in Python 2.5 Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > I have taken the coments and think I have implemented most. My only > > Unfortunately, no. > > > question is how to use the enumerator. Here is

Re: basic python questions

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, etc...) I would be able to find this? I am running this in Python 2.5 Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > I have taken the coments and think I have implemented most. My only > > Unfortunately, no. > > > question is how to use the enumerator. Here is

A little confuse

2006-11-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I run this code in the pdb it works. accountNbr = 1 for testLine in ftest.readlines(): acct = testLine[1:2] #there account number if accountNbr == int(acct): accountNbr = accountNbr + 1 When I run without the debugger I get this error. File "./casco

Re: basic python questions

2006-11-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I normaly try to be as resourceful as I can. I find that newgroups give a wide range of answers and solutions to problems and you get a lot responses to what is the right way to do things and different point of views about the language that you can't find in help manuals. I also want to thank every

Method argument names

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Having a method: def method(self,x,y): is it possible to discover, from outside the method, that the methods arguments are ['self', 'x', 'y']? Thanks. /Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Quadratic Optimization Problem

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t; [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need to do a quadratic optimization problem in python where the > > > constraints are quadratic and objective function is linear. > > > > > > What are the possible choices to do this. > > > > Too bad these homework a

Re: Accessing feed history in an RSS Reader

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm pretty sure that GoogleReader keeps its own archive on their servers to provide historical feed items - so you'd have to implement your own archiving on your server to get the same functionality (unless GoogleReader publishes any API you could use for this purpose). In the general case, given

Re: Abelson and Python

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While studying the SICP video lectures I have to twist my mind some to > completely understand the lessons. I implement the programs shown there > in both Python and Scheme, and I find the Python implementations > simpler to write (but it's not a fair c

Re: Abelson and Python

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > No surprise to anyone who's ever tried to use MIT Scheme. > > Be careful, such assertions are often flamebait. Well, yeah, it's a warning to everyone to not bother with the MIT implementation of Scheme which is comple

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tell us about it again when it is available as html. We will be glad to read it. I am sorry but I almost never find a pdf worth the bother of clicking on it. Sorry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The adobe people have online conversion http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html google seems to convert them when they end up in the engines http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pdf+to+html has a list of converters http://www.dexrow.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: &g

Re: Abelson and Python

2006-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paddy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > While studying the SICP video lectures I have to twist my mind some to > > completely understand the lessons. I implement the programs shown there > > in both Python and Scheme, and I find the Python implementations > >

select() on WinXP

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running Python 2.5 on Windows XP. When I try to do this: [code] import select select.select([], [], []) [/code] I get this: [output] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Documents and Settings/Grebekel/Desktop/s.py", line 2, in select.select([],[],[]) error: (10022, 'An invalid

Re: select() on WinXP

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using it for sockets, it works on linux but not on Windows. The actual code is something like (server side): r, w, e = select.select(self.clients, [], self.clients, 5) where self.clients is a list of accepted sockets. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: select() on WinXP

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I patched the code to: if self.clients: r, w, e = select.select(self.clients, [], self.clients, 5) It works now, thank you Thomas :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python gaining popularity according to a study

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index Python is the 7th most commonly used language, up from 8th. The only one gaining ground besides VB in the top 10. We're glad, our app is written in python. It's free at http://pnk.com and it is a web timesheet for project accounting -- http://mail.pyth

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, it's true that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for personal profits, but you may derive from it, reproduce and propagate it. You're quite right to point it out. Licenses are too complicated. I don't believe a license exists which meets the demands of all clients, however should I

PDF to HTML conversion for The Python Papers

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The adobe people have online conversion > > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html > > google seems to convert them when they end up in the engines > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pdf+to+html > > ha

The Python Papers -- letters to the editor

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PROTECTED], indicating an acceptance of this agreement. Cheers, -T (Editor-In-Chief) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben Finney wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Yes, it's true that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for > > personal profits, but you may derive from it, reproduce and > > propagate it. You're quite

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

2006-11-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I thought I just had. In what way does the statement "Yes, it's true > that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for personal profits, > but you may derive from it, reproduce and propagate it" not provide > such a revision and clarification? Seriously, let me know what exact > statement

Re: fast listdir & stat

2006-11-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
robert wrote: > I want to get the files and sizes and times etc. stats of a dir fast. > os.listdir & iterating with os.stat seems not to run at optimal speed for > network folders. Is there a faster possibility? (both for Win & *nix ; best > platform independent) > > > Robert An alternative is

ANNOUNCE: WSGI XSS Prevention Middleware

2006-11-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hat this middleware is not a replacement for properly validating input and quoting output. This class can be downloaded from: http://www.westpoint.ltd.uk/dist/wsgisecurity.zip Author: Richard Moore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright: (c) 2006 Westpoint Ltd License: Released under the Python License Version: 1.0

Installing CVXOPT

2006-11-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, how can I install and start using CVXOPT. I have python 2.5 version installed. what else do i need to download and install for CVXOPT. thanks amit -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

InProc COM server for Excel supporting several versions of Excel

2006-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi list, At the moment at work I have to maintain one Excel spreadsheet that has plenty of VBA code that performs validation of the data the user inserts, it must conform to certain business rules. I would like to replace the VBA code for one InPoc COM server DLL made in python. I read the Python P

The Python Papers License Discussion

2006-11-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Commons slogan "some rights reserved" in future communications, to the extent possible under human fallibility :) Those who have made comments here might wish to submit them for publication if they would like them to be heard by The Python Papers general readership. This may be done by ema

Re: synching with os.walk()

2006-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 24, 7:57 am, "Andre Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > os.walk() is a nice generator for performing actions on all files in a > directory and subdirectories. However, how can one use os.walk() for walking > through two hierarchies at once? I want to synch

Re: The Python Papers Edition One

2006-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan J. Salmoni wrote: > I heartily agree. pdf format has never been much of a problem for me. > Now that you have an ISSN, has it been submitted to Google Scholar or > other academic indexes? > > http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html for Google Scholar > http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu

Re: "fork and exit" needed?

2006-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vincent Delporte wrote: > Hi > > I'm a Python newbie, and would like to rewrite this Perl scrip > to be run with the Asterisk PBX: > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+NetCID > > Anyone knows if those lines are necessary, why, and what their > alternative is in Python? > open STDO

Modifying every alternate element of a sequence

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a list of numbers and I want to build another list with every second element multiplied by -1. input = [1,2,3,4,5,6] wanted = [1,-2,3,-4,5,-6] I can implement it like this: input = range(3,12) wanted = [] for (i,v) in enumerate(input): if i%2 == 0: wanted.append(v) else:

Re: Modifying every alternate element of a sequence

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, I was in fact searching for this syntax in the python tutorial. It is missing there. Is there a reference page which documents all possible list comprehensions. -- Suresh Leo Kislov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a list of numbers and I want to build another list w

Re: Reading text labels from a Win32 window

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Does anyone know of a way to read text labels from a Win32 application. > I am familiar with using pywin32 and the SendMessage function to > capture text from Buttons,text boxex, comboboxes, etc, however, the > text I am would like to capture doesn'

Re: Wrapping A Shell

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeremy Moles wrote: > I'm not sure if this is really the right place to ask this question, but > since the implementation is in Python, I figured I'd give it a shot. > > I want to "wrap" a shell process using popen inside of python program > rather than creating a new shell process for each line I

Re: Error handling. Python embedded into a C++ app.

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You would use try: and then on the next line except: I am not sure what the best answer is but you could write your errors to a file and then load them if all else fails. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dex-tracker Wolfram wrote: > I have a problem with displaying errors in an embedded situat

Re: HTML Table-of-Content Extraction Script

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > robert wrote: > > > I'm looking for a function which extracts a table of contents > > of HTML file(s) from ... > > and possibly auto-creates the ancors. > > Maybe something already exists? > > that's the kind of stuff you'll write in approximately two minutes using > Beaut

Re: 6 Pick Bet Grouping

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bullockbefriending bard wrote: > (I apologise in advance for posting something slightly OT, but plead in > mitigation that I'm trying to re-write an old, suboptimal VB6 (erk) > brute-force attack in a shiny, elegant, pythonic manner. I would really > appreciate some ideas about an appropriate algo

Re: 6 Pick Bet Grouping

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems straightforward: 1 / X / X ... and 4 / X / X ... becomes 1 + 4 / X / X If there were a 6 / X / X it would become 1 + 4 + 6 / X / X I think this means that all possible combinations for any particular amount may be grouped together in a single ticket. Cheers, -T -- http://mail.python

Re: Python program that validates an url against w3c markup validator

2006-11-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
urls = [("/tmp/validate1.html", "http://www.theage.com.au";)] for url, outputfile in urls: commandString = 'wget -o %s http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=%s' % (outputfile, url) system.exec(commandString) is one easy way. yaru22 wrote: > I'd like to create a program that validates bunch of

Re: How to detect what type a variable is?

2006-11-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leandro Ardissone wrote: > Hi, > > I want to know what type is a variable. > For example, I get the contents of an xml but some content is a list or > a string, and I need to know what type it is. You should try to treat it as a list, catch the exceptions raise when it is a string (problably Valu

Re: EasyInstall under Windows - strange behaviour

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norbert wrote: > Hello all, > i try to install ZSI under python 2.5 and windows 2000. > I Downloaded the egg and tried the following > > c:\Python25\Scripts>easy_install.exe c:\download\ZSI-2.0_rc3-py2.5.egg > > The result is that pythonwin pops up and shows the file : > c:\Python25\Scripts\easy_i

Re: Why are slice indices the way they are in python?

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Why? It doesn't seem intuitive to me. To me, it makes it harder, not > easier, to work with slices than if indexing started at 1 and the > above expression got you the 2nd throught the 5th character. Zero-based indices and excluding last index often works nicer, it is not the rule, but all m

Re: Automatic increment

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gheorghe Postelnicu wrote: > Hi, > > I have a situation of the following type: > > for line in lineList: > for item in line.split() > myArray[counter, itemCounter] > itemCounter = itemCounter + 1 > counter = counter +1 > > Is there a way to get rid of the manual incrementat

Re: XML blooming

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Concerning #2, Microsoft has released a tool for XSD Inference. It can't generate the exact XSD file, but it can guess what it was... http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/f/80fca9f1-292e-4b50-b512-ccf004d4b58e/xsdinference.exe Paddy wrote: > (That is bloom as in http://www.wmhelp.com/xmlpad

Re: String formatters with variable argument length

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do you know which ones to use? Your best bet is to write a handler for the TypeError and give a meaningful error message. Fredrik Tolf wrote: > I've been trying to get the string formatting operator (%) to work with > more arguments than the format string requires, but I can find no way to > d

Trying to send keystrokes to NES emulator

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am trying to send keystrokes to the NES emulator nester[1]. The idea was to be able to use a standard NES controller whose "state" I can read in using Python and then conveying that to the emulator. Unfortunately, all the attempts I have made so far have failed. It looks like the emulator is

Re: Open and closing files

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Machin wrote: > Thomas Ploch wrote: > > Is it defined behaviour that all files get implicitly closed when not > > assigning them? > > > > Like: > > > > def writeFile(fName, foo): > > open(fName, 'w').write(process(foo)) > > > > compared to: > > > > > > def writeFile(fName, foo): > > f

Re: v2.3, 2.4, and 2.5's GUI is slow for me

2006-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > I've been asking all over the place, namely different forums. I even > > e-mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] about my problem, but they couldn't assist me too > > much. > > > > My problem is..the GUI for versions 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 of Python run very > >

recover/extract content from html with help of cheetah templates

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, currently i am developing a very small cms using python and cheetah. very early i have noticed that i was lacking the method to extract/recover the contents (html,text) from the html that is generated by cheetah and delivered to the site viewer. to explain it further: during the output pro

Re: python vs java & eclipse

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hg wrote: > Thomas Ploch wrote: > > Yes, thats true, but since eclipse is resource monster (it is still > > using java), and some people (like me) don't have a super fresh and new > > computer > > If you compare eclipse to VS, it is not that memory hungry And if you compare Saturn to Jupiter, it's

Re: Is python memory shared between theads?

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wesley Henwood wrote: > So I declare a variable named A in thread1, in script1.py. I assign > the value of 2.5 to A. I then run script2.py in thread2. Script2.py > assigns the value of 5.5 to a variable named A. Now, when thread1 > resums execution, I see that A = 5.5, rather than 2.5 as I expe

Re: python vs java & eclipse

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amir Michail wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... > > > > Is there anything _useful_ that it'll bring that a good editor doesn't? > > e.g. in vim I do get > > * automatic syntax checking (if I type "if a=1:" and hit enter, it'

strange problems with code generation

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am writing out zero byte files with this (using python 2.5). I have no idea why I am having that problem, I am also looking for an example of readlines where I can choose a number of lines say lines 12 to 14 and then write them back to disk. any help would be apreaceted. import sys as sys2 i

Re: Take the $million challenge: Prove 911 conspriracy theorists are wrong

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
://www.dexrow.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I found this nice dialog on the internet: > = > > > Well, if you want to convice me, just answer these questions: > > If you can prove that the official explanation is correct, what's > ke

Re: strange problems with code generation

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Machin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am writing out zero byte files with this (using python 2.5). I have > > no idea why I am having that problem > > Which output file(s) do you mean, temp.orc or temp.sco or both? > Two possible causes outlined below. >

Re: strange problems with code generation

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I never see anything from print(data). The example I tried to adapt using readlines may be a little old or something. I did close all the files to prevent problems when I figure out what is wrong with what I have. John Machin wrote: > You say "I am sure the readlines code is crashing it." I ca

Re: strange problems with code generation

2006-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is left over from the example I stold it from, I remove it and see if that helps. Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 1 Dec 2006 17:24:18 -0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > data = sys2.stdin.readli

Re: strange problems with code generation

2006-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I changed that and the writelines and I am very close now. thanks. Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On 1 Dec 2006 17:24:18 -0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > data = sys2.stdin.readlines() > >

Re: text adventure question

2006-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I was playing around with adventure games using oop (in c++) I had all charecters defined as a type, no need to seperate non-player charecters with user defined charecters. Makes it easier to create a party of charecters or monsters. I left it up to the logic of the program to define be

Re: Using win32gui.SendMessage and SysListView32 control

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > Hope someone can steer me in the right direction. > > I am trying to use python to collect the values from a Win32 > application's control. > I can successfull query an retreive the values ListBox, Edit and > Buttons, however, the application

Re: evaluating gui modules, any experience on tkinter?

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tkinter is lame, but it works everywhere and is what I keep coming back to despite my many complaints about it. If youre application can be fit into a web porgramming framework, that may well be the best way to go. Your browser can probably render a better gui than any of the other frameworks can.

Re: Why not just show the out-of-range index?

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Machin wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > > Russ wrote: > > > Every Python programmer gets this message occasionally: > > > > > > IndexError: list index out of range > > > > > > The message tells you where the error occurred, but it doesn't tell you > > > what the range and the offending index ar

Re: trouble with matplotlib

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One hack could be to reload the module on each pass. Cheers, -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I am using matplotlib with python to generate a bunch of charts. My > code works fine for a single iteration, which creates and saves 4 > different charts. The trouble is that wh

Re: Why not just show the out-of-range index?

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Machin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > John Machin wrote: > > > Add "Syntax Error: invalid syntax" to the list ... > > > > But at least if you're using IDLE, the point of syntax error > > is highlighted. > > > > Same wh

Re: Python library for reading ODF Spreadsheets

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ODT is an XML format, so you can use any XML library, including the one in the default python distribution. It might be zipped XML in which case you will need to uncompress it first. -T John Machin wrote: > On 4/12/2006 10:18 AM, Jonathan Hunt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have had a look on goog

class property methods getting called only once

2006-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the following code, I could not find out why the set and get methods are not called once I set the property. >>> class Test: ... def __init__(self): ... self._color = 12 ... def _setcolor(self,value): ... print 'setting' ... self._color = value ... def _getc

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