Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 2, 3:49 pm, Basilisk96 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A simple > > if s: > print "not empty" > else: > print "empty" > > will do. How do you know that s is a string? > > -Basilisk96 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 2, 6:41 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > > On May 2, 3:49 pm, Basilisk96 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>A simple > > >>if s: > >>print "not empty" > >>

problem with meteo datas

2007-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Messaggio originale Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 3-mag-2007 10.02 A: Ogg: problem with meteo datas Hello, I'm Peter and I'm new in python codying and I'm using parsying to extract data from one meteo Arpege file. This file is long file and it's composed by word

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 2, 11:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >... > > > >>> import gmpy > > >>> gmpy.mpz(11) > > mpz(11) > > >>> gmpy.mpz('11',10) > > mpz(11) &

Re: Library Naming

2007-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 3, 9:41 am, Trans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm taking a pole on how best to name programming library packages. Well, the Poles have been wrong before. > If you have a second, please have a look. > > http://7ranscode.blogspot.com/2007/05/library-poll.html >

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 3, 2:03 pm, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 2, 3:49 pm, Basilisk96 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A simple > > >> if s: > >> print "not empty" > >> else: > >

Getting some element from sets.Set

2007-05-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is not possible to index set objects. That is OK. But, what if I want to find some element from the Set. from sets import Set s = Set( range(12 ) if I do pop, that particular element gets removed. I do not want to remove the element, but get some element from the Set. s.some_element() # Is n

invoke user's standard mail client

2007-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, the simplest way to launch the user's standard mail client from a Python program is by creating a mailto: URL and launching the webbrowser: def mailto_url(to=None,subject=None,body=None,cc=None): """ encodes the content as a mailto link as described on http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/

Re: Getting some element from sets.Set

2007-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 11:34 am, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is not possible to index set objects. That is OK. > > But, what if I want to find some element from the Set. > > > from sets import Set > > s = Set( range(12 ) > &

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 5:02 am, Jaswant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a simple way to do it i think > > s=hello > > >>> if(len(s)==0): > > ... print "Empty" > ... else: > ... print s > ... > hello But you are still making the assump

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 1:31 pm, "Hamilton, William " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On May 4, 5:02 am, Jaswant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a simple way to do it i think > > &g

Re: How to check if a string is empty in python?

2007-05-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 9:19�pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > � �... > > > Isn't deprecated like depreciated but not quite to zero yet? > > No. �"To deprecate" comes from a Latin verb meaning "to ward o

Re: Python regular expressions just ain't PCRE

2007-05-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wiseman wrote: > I'm kind of disappointed with the re regular expressions module. In > particular, the lack of support for recursion ( (?R) or (?n) ) is a > major drawback to me. There are so many great things that can be > accomplished with regular expressions this way, such as validating a > math

Re: problem with py2exe and microsoft speech SDK 5.1

2007-05-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Dave, I can't help you but maybe you'll have more luck if you try also the dedicated py2exe mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/py2exe-users francois On May 4, 7:36 am, Dave Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On May 3, 1:29 pm, Dave Lim > w

Re: invoke user's standard mail client

2007-05-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 6, 9:50 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Windows you can use MAPI. But how? I could not find any starting point. I found examples about sending mail directly, which gives me the impression that MAPI is just Microsoft's version of SMTP. Th

Re: invoke user's standard mail client

2007-05-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 6, 10:08 am, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens schrieb: > > > Gabriel Genellina schrieb: > > >> En Fri, 04 May 2007 05:07:44 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >

Re: invoke user's standard mail client

2007-05-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 11:42 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to stick my neck out and say: I doubt > if there's one recognised, approved method. That > would require every email client to have a way > of accepting a command which said "Open up a new >

Re: Plot with scipy

2007-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4 Mai, 15:57, redcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've already got this package. I just wanted to try something new. > > However, since you talk about it, I've got a question regarding this > package. The execution of the code stops after the line: > pylab.show()

Re: how do you implement a reactor without a select?

2007-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michele Simionato wrote: > Notice that I copied the Twisted terminology, but > I did not look at Twisted implementation because I did not want to > use a select (I assume that the GUI mainloops do not use it either). > The trick I use is to store the actions to perform (which are > callables identi

is for reliable?

2007-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi to all I have a question about the for statement of python. I have the following piece of code where cachefilesSet is a set that contains the names of 1398 html files cached on my hard disk for fn in cachefilesSet: fObj = codecs.open( baseDir + fn + '-header.html', 'r', 'iso-8859-1' )

Re: invoke user's standard mail client

2007-05-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 7, 10:28 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Get the pywin32 package (Python for Windows extensions) from sourceforge, > install it, and look into the win32comext\mapi\demos directory. Thanks for the hint, Gabriel. Wow, that's heav

XLRD Python 2.51 Question

2007-05-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to read an Excel book with XLRD and I am getting the following error Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\temp\ReadGoldmanExcelFiles.py", line 62, in startRow = 0, sh_idx = 0, path2 = '//otaam.com/root/SharedFiles/ GlobeOp/Risk/Cal Projects/temp/') File "C:\temp\ReadGol

Re: Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux)

2007-05-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 8, 12:59 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:24:01 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > > > > So being an idle bugger, I just naturally assumed t

Re: Getting some element from sets.Set

2007-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 5:06 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Errmm, union and intersection operations each apply to two (or more) > sets, not to the elements of a set. > You have n sets set0, set1, > > Let u be the number of unique somevalues (1 <= u <= n) &g

Symposium "Computational Methods in Image Analysis" within the USNCCM IX Congress - Submission ENDS in 5 days

2007-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- (Apologies for cross-posting) Symposium "Computational Methods in Image Analysis" National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM IX) San Francisco, CA,

software testing articles

2007-05-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you ever been interested in software testing? Giving you an in depth analysis/knowledge on software testing!! http://www.top-itarticles.com/softtest/main.asp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 11, 2:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > First let me appologise if this has been answered but I could not find > an acurate answer to this interesting problem. > > If the following is true: > C:\Python25\rg.py>python > Python 2.5.1 (r251:5

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 11, 3:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 11, 2:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > First let me appologise if this has been answered but I could not find > > > an acurate answer to this

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 12, 12:56?pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 14:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > if arg==True: > > > tests the type property (whether a list is a boolean). > > That sounds nonsensical and incorrect. Please explain what

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 12, 8:10?pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 12, 12:56?pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 14:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > &

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 12, 11:02�pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:43:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 12, 8:10?pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > &

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 13, 8:57?am, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 18:43 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > That doesn't explain what you mean. How does "if arg==True" test whether > > > "a list is a boolean"? > > >

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 13, 2:09?pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 09:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are no exceptions. "...and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 13, 8:24 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 21:50:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intended to reply to this yesterday, but circumstances (see timeit results) prevented it. > >> > Actually, it's this statement that'

Re: deployment scripts

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 14, 9:32 am, Erin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have experience developing deployment scripts with Jython? csound blue is open source and uses jython, .. I don't have the url on me though http://www.stormpages.com/edexter/csound.html -- http://mail.pyth

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 14, 8:10?pm, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 13, 8:24 am, Steven D'Aprano > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 May 2007 21:50:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr

How to calculate definite integral with python

2007-05-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to do some integral calculation. I have searched the web, but haven't found any useful information. Will somebody point me to the right resources on the web for this job ? Thanks a lot. ps. Can numpy be used for this job?* * -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Storing and searching nodes of a tree

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have a tree data structure and I name each node with the following convention: a |---aa ||--- aaa ||--- aab | |---ab | |---ac I use these names as keys in a dictionary, and store node's data. Now given a name like "abc", I want to find the key with the following rule: If the key ex

Re: Storing and searching nodes of a tree

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 6:33 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I use these names as keys in a dictionary, and store node's data. > > Now given a name like "abc"

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 12:30 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 15 May 2007 01:37:07 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > >> > > >> > Sec 2.2.3: > >> > Objects of different types, *--->

Re: Storing and searching nodes of a tree

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 9:25 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I have the tree in the dictionary, the code would like this, > > def search(tree, path): > >while path and not

Re: Trying to choose between python and java

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 5:16 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beliavsky a écrit : > > > > > On May 15, 1:30 am, Anthony Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>#5 someone said that they used to use python but stopped because the &g

The Pure Joy of Receiving PayPal Money

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w up.) (Just in case you still haven't opened your PayPal account yet, use this link to open one in your name), https://www.paypal.com #1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] #3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] #4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] #5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, all of this is ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! You

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:01:57 +0200, Rene Fleschenberg wrote: > > > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch schrieb: > >> You find it in the sources by the line number from the traceback and > >> the letters can be copy'n'pasted if you don't know how to input them > >> with your keymap or

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
feedback from the > > community. As the author of PEP 3131, I'd like to encourage comments to > > the PEP included below, either here (comp.lang.python), or to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > In summary, this PEP proposes to allow non-ASCII letters as identifiers

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 9:23�pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On May 13, 8:24 am, Steven D'Aprano > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 May 2007 21:50:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 15, 7:07 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 15 May 2007 14:01:20 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On May 15, 12:30 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: &g

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ben wrote: > On May 15, 11:25 pm, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Rene Fleschenberg wrote: > > > Javier Bezos schrieb: > > >>> But having, for example, things like open() from the stdlib in your code > > >>> and then o:ff

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christophe wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ecrit : > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> I would find it useful to be able to use non-ASCII characters for heavily > >> mathematical programs. There would be a closer correspondence between the > >> code and the mathem

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stefan Behnel wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I even sometimes > > read code snippets on email lists and websites from my handheld, which > > is sadly still memory-limited enough that I'm really unlikely to > > install anything approaching a full set

Garbage Collector in Zope 2.8

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. Can anyone tell me how to run garbage collector in zope manually in zope runtime? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Interesting list Validity (True/False)

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 16, 4:12 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Wed, 16 May 2007 03:16:59 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > > > > On May 15, 7:07 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Christophe wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ecrit : > > Christophe wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] a ecrit : > >>> Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>>> I would find it useful to be able to use non-ASCII characters for heavily > >>>> mathemat

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 16, 12:54 pm, Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Istvan Albert schrieb: > > > Here is something that just happened and relates to this subject: I > > had to help a student run some python code on her laptop, she had > > Windows XP that hid the extensio

Re: python shell

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 16, 12:38 pm, Krypto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using python shell to test small parts of the big program. > What other ways can I use the shell effectively. My mentor told me > that you can virtually do anything from testing your program to > anything in the

Re: Trying to choose between python and java

2007-05-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cameron Laird wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >"Anthony Irwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > . > . >

Personal Computers (PC's) contains a lot of info

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personal Computers (PC's) contains a lot of info that the average user doesn't usually know. At http://PCTermDefinitions.com there is extensive infomation related to this topic (all free). Along with a link portal to other PC computer related sites. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyth

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 17, 2:30 pm, Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Istvan Albert schrieb: > > > > > After the first time that your programmer friends need fix a trivial > > bug in a piece of code that does not display correctly in the terminal > > I can assure y

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 16, 6:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 16, 11:41 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Christophe wrote: > snip... > > > Who displays stack frames? Your code. Whose code includes unicode > > > identifiers?

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 16, 6:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On May 16, 11:41 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Christophe wrote: > snip... > > > Who displays stack frames? Your code. Whose code includes unicode > > > identifiers?

Re: How to convert a number to binary?

2007-05-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 17, 6:45 pm, Lyosha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 17, 4:40 pm, Michael Bentley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote: > > > > Converting binary to base 10 is easy: > > >>>>

Re: pyhdf

2007-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I can't help here, just a recommendation: I am using pytables (http://www.pytables.org) build upon hdf5. If you're not bound to hdf4, go and try pytables instead of pyhdf. Bernhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 3131: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers

2007-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 18, 1:47 pm, "Javier Bezos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This question is more or less what a Korean who doesn't > >> speak English would ask if he had to debug a program > >> written in English. > > > Perhaps, but the treatment

Re: Anti-Aliasing in wxPython?

2007-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 18, 1:20 pm, Alexander Dünisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody > > i'm wondering if there's a way to enable > Anti-Aliasing for the Graphics Object in wxPython. > > in Java i do this: > > ((Graphics2D)g).setRende

Re: pyodbc data corruption problem

2007-05-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 18, 6:46 pm, "Joe Salmeri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found a data corruption problem with pyodbc. > > OS = Windows XP SP2 > DB = Microsoft Access XP > > PROBLEM: > > When selecting columns from a table that are of type Memo the value &

Creating a sub folder in the pythons LIB Directory

2007-05-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am creating a library of functions. I would like to have them saved in a sub folder of pythons LIB folder, but I cannot get it to work. I have a script called test.py I stored it in LIB folder and typed Import test, work fine. I store the script in lib/ted Then type Import lib\ted I get a

questions about programming styles

2007-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I'm not skilled at programming, so sorry for my ignorance. My questions: (1) which is the better way to calculate the value of attributes of a class ? for example: (A) def cal_attr(self, args): #do some calculations self.attr = calculated_value and then if the vlue of

Re: questions about programming styles

2007-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arvind Singh wrote: > On 5/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> which is the better way to calculate the value of attributes of a >> class ? >> for example: >> >> (A) >> def cal_attr(self, args): >> #do some c

Re: Python compared to other language

2007-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Python is a strongly typed but dynamic language ... In the "A few questions" thread, John Nagle's summary of Python begins "Python is a byte-code interpreted untyped procedural dynamic language with implicit declaration. " Is Python strongly typed or untyped? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Python and GUI

2007-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 21, 10:50 am, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just wondering on what peoples opinions are of the GUIs avaiable for > > Python? > > We have used wxPython with great results. It's cross platform. Can use > native OS widge

Re: questions about programming styles

2007-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thanks a lot for all kind replies! >> >> I think I need a systematic learning of design patterns. I have found >> some tutorials >> about design pattern about python, but can somebody point me

Re: NOOOOB

2007-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 22, 11:29 am, jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I want to begin python. Does anyone know where a good starting point > is? > > Thanks, > Jem I went through the tutorial on python.org and found that really helpfull. If in a windows env the book b

querying dictionary / list of dictionary like SQL

2007-05-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Is there a module /add on in python that will let me query a dictionary [ or a list of dictionary] exactly like an SQL query? For ex: a=[{'id':1, 'name':'mark'}, {'id':2,'name': 'richard'}] select * from a where id =1 should give me the a[0] or something similar to this. thanks -- http://mail.

Volume 2, Issue 2 of The Python Papers is now available! Download it from www.pythonpapers.org.

2007-05-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Volume 2, Issue 2 of The Python Papers is now available! Download it from www.pythonpapers.org. This issue marks a major landmark in our publication. We present a number of industry articles. These include "Python in Education" and "MPD WebAMP", as well as a great insight into Python in Germany, a

How can I time a method of a class in python using Timeit

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am using timeit to time a global function like this t = timeit.Timer("timeTest()","from __main__ import timeTest") result = t.timeit(); But how can i use timeit to time a function in a class? class FetchUrlThread(threading.Thread): def aFunction(self): # do something

Re: How can I time a method of a class in python using Timeit

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 24, 12:41 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, you can do this: > > class Dog(object): > def aFunction(self): > result = 20 + 2 > def run(self): > #do stuff > aFunction() > #do other stuff > import time

Re: How can I time a method of a class in python using Timeit

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 24, 12:41 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, you can do this: > > class Dog(object): > def aFunction(self): > result = 20 + 2 > def run(self): > #do stuff > aFunction() > #do other stuff > import time

Python script not mapping our site correctly?

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have been using the Google recommended python script for about a year. We recently realized that the script was not crawling our sites url's, but just our folders which reside on the server. The python script seems to be designed for 'non database' sites, not a site which is using .asp, and has

trouble converting c++ bitshift to python equivalent

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello all i am relatively new to python, catching on, but getting stuck on simple thing: i have two string bytes i need to push into a single (short) int, like so in c: temp = strBuf[2]; temp = (temp<<7)+(strBuf[1]); c code works, but having trouble getting python to perform same functio

Re: trouble converting c++ bitshift to python equivalent

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (ord(strBuf[2])<<7) + ord(strBuf[1]) wow, thank you - works perfectly ! and much more elegant than what i was up to. thanks again... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: trouble converting c++ bitshift to python equivalent

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You should really use the struct module for that type of conversion, but > you also need to know that indexing of lists and tuples starts at 0, not 1. indeed, i used to have temp = unpack('h', tBuf[1,3]) but it was a hack (and as such a bit off ;) as i was having troubles casting not quite use

Find the closest relative

2007-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I have three objects, all of them are instances of classes derived from a base class. Now, given one of the instance, I want to find the closest relative of the other two. How can I do this? This is how I implemented; I guess there must be elegant way to do this... def find_closest_relative(a,

Re: Find the closest relative

2007-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 25, 12:40 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 25, 12:31 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is how I implemented; I guess there must be elegant way to do > > this... > > > def find_closes

Re: Find the closest relative

2007-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 25, 12:40 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 25, 12:31 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is how I implemented; I guess there must be elegant way to do > > this... > > > def find_closes

Re: How to get started as a xhtml python mysql freelancer ?

2007-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 25, 6:48 pm, gert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I made something that i was hoping it could make people happy enough > so i could make a living by providing support for commercial use > ofhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/dfo/ > > But in reality i am a lousy sales men

Re: Long double in Python

2007-05-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 25, 2:40?pm, Charles Vejnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a C library using "long double" numbers. I would like to be able to > keep this precision in Python (even if it's not portable) : for the moment I > have to cast the "long dou

Re: How to get started as a xhtml python mysql freelancer ?

2007-05-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 25, 7:55 pm, gert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 26, 2:09 am, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > gert wrote: > > > I made something that i was hoping it could make people happy enough > > > so i could make a livin

python -- prolog bridge error

2007-05-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am getting an error with pyswip on xp that says the .dll isn't installed as a shared library. Is there a manual way to install the .dll as such??? prolog seems to work fine it is just the bridge that gives an error -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to get a dot's or pixel's RGB with PIL

2007-05-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
e.g. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to get a dot's or pixel's RGB with PIL

2007-05-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got it. Pass python challenge chapter 7. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

2007-05-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > Paul McGuire schrieb: > > I'm starting a new thread for this topic, so as not to hijack the one > > started by Steve Howell's excellent post titled "ten small Python > > programs". > > > > In that thread, there was a suggestion that these examples should > > conf

Unsubscribing from the mailing list

2007-05-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I do not know if this is the correct group to ask this question. But since mailman is python-based I thought i would ask here. I had subscribed to a mailing list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] adventitiously. I then wanted to reverse my decision and so tried to unsubscribe from the mailing

Re: conditionally creating functions within a class?

2007-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 mai, 04:14, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > one of the primary ideas behind object > orientation is that the class defines the same methods for all instances. > While this is effectively the standard behaviour in class-based OOPLs, I would definitively not

Re: python -- prolog bridge error

2007-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 27, 8:40 pm, yuce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > PySWIP requires "libpl.dll" to be on the path. There are two ways to > do this: > > 1) Add 'bin' directory of SWI-Prolog to the PATH (it's C:\Program Files > \pl\bin on my system),

Re: Sci.linalg.lu permuation error

2007-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Luke, you should send this to the scipy user list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bernhard On May 28, 10:44 am, Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to use Scipy's LU factorization. Here is what I've got: > > from numpy import * > import scipy as Sci > impo

Re: How to set a class inheritance at instance creation?

2007-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why not just have Lang1 and Lang2 inherit from WriteStruct as well? On May 29, 8:52 am, glomde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should > have at instance creation. > > The problem is that I have something like: > > class CoreLan

Re: Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

2007-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 29, 3:22 pm, "Eric S. Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Warren Stringer wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > > You make a compelling argument for underscores. I sometimes help a visually > > impaired friend with setting up his computers. > > > I

tag py-compile errors,[develop with Eclipse and pyAnt]

2007-05-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I configured Eclipse according to the paper http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecant/index.html. But, when I build the ant file,it failed with the following message: Could not create task or type of type: py-compile. I hava added pyAntTasks.jar to ${eclipse}/plugins/ org.apache.ant_versi

Re: Key Listeners

2007-05-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 mai, 04:14, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there key listeners for Python? Either built in or third party? What is a "key listener" ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with ctypes and PAM

2007-05-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I've been trying to write a PAM module using ctypes. In the conversation function (my_conv in the script below), you're passed in a pam_response** pointer. You're supposed to allocate an array of pam_response's and set the pointer's value to the new array. Then you fill in the array with

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