Re: Using XML w/ Python...

2005-12-12 Thread Rick Wotnaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > """ > Spoke too soon, i get this error when running amara in > ActivePython > import amara amara.parse("http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml";) > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in ? > File "C:\Python23\Lib

Re: IsString

2005-12-12 Thread Rick Wotnaz
"Tuvas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I need a function that will tell if a given variable is a > character or a number. Is there a way to do this? Thanks! > If you really need to, you can test for type: >>> for x in ['3',3,3.1,3j]: ... print type(x) >>> for x

Re: Using XML w/ Python...

2005-12-12 Thread Rick Wotnaz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > """ > Not wanting to hijack this thread, but it got me interested in > installing amara. I downloaded > Amara-allinone-1.0.win32-py2.4.exe and ran it. It professed that > the installation directory was to be > D:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\ ..

Re: write()

2006-07-27 Thread Rick Zantow
"manuhack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1153981114.837884.232610 @p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com: > I copied the lines > > f=open('/tmp/workfile', 'w') > print f > f.close() > > from Python 2.4 Documentation 7.2. But it said IOerror No such file or > directory" '/tmp/workfile' > > Is it som

Re: Class definition within function

2006-08-02 Thread Rick Zantow
Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>> def f(): >> class C(object): >> def __init__(self): >>self.a = 'a' >> return C() >> >> >>> x = f() >> >>> x.a >> 'a' >> >>> y=f.C() >> > Of course there's this: >>> def f(): ... clas

Re: Proposal: [... for ... while cond(x)]

2006-08-07 Thread Rick Zantow
Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >>> No, the list comprehension lets you write an expression directly >>> avoiding a function call, and it also allows you to add in a >>> condition which can be used to filer the sequence. Your proposal

Re: Pychecker

2006-06-09 Thread Rick Zantow
Anthony Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Howdy, I had the impression that pychecker caught and reported such > dynamic syntactical errors. > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > > def add(i): > i += 10 > > status = 3 > > if 1 == 1: > statuss = 15 > > add(stat

Re: Amara installation

2006-06-19 Thread Rick Zantow
"tjreedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> O/S WinXP Home >> Vsn of Python: 2.4 >> >> Wish to install Amara. Using amara-allinone-1.0.win32-py2.4.exe >> (2965KB) >> >> Forder structure before installation:

Re: When is a subclass not right?

2006-08-24 Thread Rick Zantow
Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At Thursday 24/8/2006 17:44, Chaz Ginger wrote: > >>That is merely a logical use of OO after all when would a car and an >>orange be the same? > > Uh... what's the point...? > By example, an orange inside a car would be mo

Re: How to run Python file?

2006-09-02 Thread Rick Zantow
"Ant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1157218244.750434.36220 @h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com: > > zefciu wrote: >> Pontus Ekberg wrote: > ... >> > $ python test.py >> > >> > or >> > >> > $ ./test.py (if test.py is executable) >> > >> > >> Thats if you use un*x. If you word under windows, the fi

Re: How to run Python file?

2006-09-02 Thread Rick Zantow
"mistral" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:1157239512.139823.15650 @74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com: [...] > Assuming I have Windows XP, and I installed ActiveState Python. No any > other additional manipulations were done, no any PATHEXTes environment > variables, etc, etc, nothing. How many prepara

what's wrong with my popen reasoning?

2006-02-05 Thread Rick Spencer
connect_clicked(self, widget, data=None): if locked: os.popen("sudo network-admin -c ath0") self.emit('connection-attempted', "ath0") else: os.popen("sudo iwconfig ath0 ap 00:0F:B3:31:CB:01") self.emit('connection-attempted', "ath0

Re: what's wrong with my popen reasoning?

2006-02-05 Thread Rick Spencer
On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:39:18 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote: >I just want to fire > off the command line utility (iwconfig) for connecting. In this case, I > want my program to wait until iwconfig is done before continuing on. I > figure that I could just write a line of code to read

Re: Number Format function

2006-02-08 Thread Rick Zantow
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > def number_format(num, places=0): > """Format a number according to locality and given places""" > locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") > return locale.format("%.*f", (places, num), True) > There are some edge

Re: jump into the interpreter in a script

2006-02-08 Thread Rick Ratzel
pdb might help. Add this to your code: import pdb pdb.set_trace() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another n00b: Removing the space in "print 'text', var"

2006-02-13 Thread Rick Zantow
bruno at modulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > HappyHippy wrote: >> More of a minor niggle than anything but how would I remove the >> aforementioned space? > > >> eg. >> strName = 'World' >> print 'Hello', strName, ', how are you today?' > > > Already got an anwser,

Re: "Temporary" Variable

2006-02-23 Thread Rick Zantow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1140725159.143882.202630 @j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: > > Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> You could try this: >> >> while 1: >> var = raw_input("Give me some data! ") >> if var == "some data": >> print "Success!" >> break >> else: >>

Re: UnboundLocalError: local variable 'colorIndex' referenced

2006-02-26 Thread Rick Zantow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1140987642.195734.187540 @t39g2000cwt.googlegroups.com: > Can you please tell me what is the meaning this error in general? > > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'colorIndex' referenced before > assignment > > In my python script, > I have a variable define and i

Re: Put a file on an ftp server over ssl

2005-05-11 Thread Rick Holbert
Have a look at Putty's pscp and PySCP... http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ http://py.vaults.ca/apyllo.py/990075885.195097684.69935243 Rick Lars wrote: > Daniel, > > Why don't you just use the 'sftp' command line program, it's available >

Re: weird cgi problem w/ apache

2005-06-04 Thread Rick Kwan
If it is umask, then that would be umask for the Apache process, not the second script (which I presume doesn't run as Apache). The CGI script can explicitly set the permissions when creating the folder using mkdir() or makedirs() so that others can write into it. (Depending on how public or priv

Re: different time tuple format

2005-06-07 Thread Rick Holbert
Like the last poster said, use %Z. On my Mandriva Linux system I get the following results: >>> time.localtime() (2005, 6, 7, 15, 7, 12, 1, 158, 1) >>> time.strptime("2005-06-07 15:07:12 EDT", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z") (2005, 6, 7, 15, 7, 12, 1, 158, 1)

Re: importing a user file in Python

2007-12-01 Thread Rick Dooling
.python.org/tut/node8.html One suggestion is to make a directory in your /home dir where you keep your downloaded and homemade Python modules and scripts. I call mine "Python" so it's ~/Python or /home/rick/Python. Then, as suggested, add this dir to your Python path, so that you ca

Re: python 2.5 - f=open('a_file.txt','w') gives [Errno 2]

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Dooling
both your script and the file have Mac line endings? rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Distutils help for sub-packages

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Muller
sdist, the Basis and IO subdirectories are not included. How can I get the distutils to include this? Thanks in advance, Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python 2.5 - f=open('a_file.txt','w') gives [Errno 2]

2007-12-05 Thread Rick Dooling
> Sorry for keeping you guys busy with such a mistake ;) No apologies necessary, especially since you reported the final outcome. Now anybody searching on that message will find a complete thread and a lesson learned. rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Distutils help for sub-packages

2007-12-06 Thread Rick Muller
On Dec 5, 7:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recommend asking the distutils guys at their list: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > > Mike I did, and no one replied there either. Probably because everyone, there and here, were too polite to say that I was nutso. Which

Advice for editing xml file using ElementTree and wxPython

2007-12-08 Thread Rick Muller
is is something that's probably pretty common, modifying a data structure using a gui, so I'm hoping that someone has thought about this and has some good advice about best practices here. Thanks in advance for your time, Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Advice for editing xml file using ElementTree and wxPython

2007-12-09 Thread Rick Muller
On Dec 8, 11:57 pm, Waldemar Osuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 8:35 pm, Rick Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm a computational chemist who frequently dabbles in Python. A > > collaborator sent me a huge XML file that at one point wa

Re: newbie

2007-12-10 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 10, 8:03 pm, "Whizzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is OReilly's Learning Python a good place to start learning to program? > I've been told Python is a good first language. > > Thanks for the advice. If you already have Python installed,just go to the bottom of this article and check the v

Re: finding dir of main .py file

2007-12-11 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 11, 10:08 am, "ron.longo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way that I can find the path of the main .py file of my > application? > > For example, I have an application with some resources which are in a > subdirectory: > > myPythonApp.py > /resources > image1 >

Re: re.sub() problem (regular expression)

2007-12-13 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 13, 9:00 pm, Davy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's "\1" and the whole re.sub() mean? > Read about backreferences here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html Also see the entry on parentheses here: http://docs.python.org/lib/

Re: listdir() with mask

2007-12-14 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 14, 1:56 am, "Vladimir Rusinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: glob or fnmatch http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie observations

2007-12-18 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 18, 2:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But where? Look it up in the function reference. OK, > where's the function reference? A line of code that you'd type in a > second is a ten-minute search. Thank God for google. Maybe this will help: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html But sinc

Re: Newbie question - what's the term for input/output to a web page?

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Dooling
On Dec 21, 7:03 pm, Rachel Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to write a simple application that will accept input from the > user, go out to a particular web page, and submit the user's input to > the website. The results that are displayed by the web page should > then be sent back to

Re: do while loop

2006-04-26 Thread Rick Zantow
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 雷 wrote: > >> suggest add do while loop in later version > > Please also suggest a clean syntax for this. :-) > Since Python already has a while : loop, I'm supposing you mean somethin

Re: Generating Cutter numbers

2006-05-20 Thread Rick Zantow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:1148133784.844430.23130@ 38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com: > Gerard Flanagan wrote: >> All >> >> would anyone happen to have code to generate Cutter Numbers: >> >> eg. http://www1.kfupm.edu.sa/library/cod-web/Cutter-numbers.htm >> [...] > > I wrote a script to see if

Re: Open source English dictionary to use programmatically w/ python

2008-01-07 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 7, 4:37 pm, dgoldsmith_89 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone point me to a downloadable open source English dictionary > suitable for programmatic use with python: I'm programming a puzzle > generator, and I need to be able to generate more or less complete > lists of English words, alp

Re: Python noob SOS (any [former?] Perlheads out there?)

2008-01-29 Thread Rick Dooling
On Jan 29, 10:39 am, kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd written a Perl module to facilitate the writing of scripts. > It contained all my boilerplate code for parsing and validating > command-line options, generating of accessor functions for these > options, printing of the help message and of t

Copying weakrefs

2008-02-14 Thread Rick Harris
s >>> t = Test() >>> wr = weakref.ref(t) >>> wr_new = copy.copy(wr) # Fails, not enough args to __new__ Anybody out there have some insight into this? Thanks Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Copying weakrefs

2008-02-14 Thread Rick Harris
On Feb 14, 12:31 pm, Rick Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working with an object, Context, that maintains an identity map > by using the weakref.WeakValueDictionary. I would like to clone this > Context object (and objects that may have a Context object) using > copy.

Re: Copying weakrefs

2008-02-14 Thread Rick Harris
On Feb 14, 12:31 pm, Rick Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working with an object, Context, that maintains an identity map > by using the weakref.WeakValueDictionary. I would like to clone this > Context object (and objects that may have a Context object) using > copy.

Re: Does __import__ require a module to have a .py suffix?

2008-03-12 Thread Rick Dooling
On Mar 12, 11:22 am, mrstephengross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. I've got a python file called 'foo' (no extension). I want to > be able to load it as a module, like so: > > m = __import__('foo') > > However, the interpreter tells me "No module named foo". If I rename > it foo.py, I can i

Re: Running a python program as main...

2008-03-26 Thread Rick Dooling
On Mar 26, 9:12 am, waltbrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On his command line he types: > > C:\...\PP3E>Launcher.py > > and this begins the program. Doesn't work for me. I have to type: > > C:\...\PP3E>python Launcher.py > > Is this a typo on his part or has he configured his settings in such a >

Why does numpy.array(a[0],b[0]) have this meaning?

2008-11-02 Thread Rick Giuly
different I see here between the numpy.array call in the cases is that a[0] is a numpy int32 10 is an int Why would this minor difference in integer types cause a totally different result for the two cases - or is something else causing the difference in results? -rick P.S. I am aware that

Optional parameter object re-used when instantiating multiple objects

2008-11-15 Thread Rick Giuly
Hello All, Why is python designed so that b and c (according to code below) actually share the same list object? It seems more natural to me that each object would be created with a new list object in the points variable. class Blob: def __init__(self, points=[]): self._points = point

Re: Optional parameter object re-used when instantiating multiple objects

2008-11-19 Thread Rick Giuly
ed? It will be harder to change the language 10 years from now, so why not change it now? (By "better" I mean that over many years of time programmers will be more productive because the language will be learned a bit faster with a fewer surprises - and still retain its power.) -Rick

Re: Data Coding suggestions

2009-02-27 Thread Rick Dooling
On Feb 27, 6:42 am, "steven.oldner" wrote: > Just learning Python and have a project to create a weekly menu and a > shopping list from the menu.   > Question:  How should I set up the data?  I'm looking at maybe 70 menu > items and maybe 1000 items for the shopping list.  I need to be able > to

Profiling gives very different predictions of best algorithm

2009-05-01 Thread Rick Muller
I'm the main programmer for the PyQuante package, a quantum chemistry package in Python. I'm trying to speed up one of my rate determining steps. Essentially, I have to decide between two algorithms: 1. Packed means that I compute N**4/8 integrals, and then do a bunch of indexing operations to unp

Re: Install Python MySQL db module?

2008-05-13 Thread Rick Dooling
On May 13, 7:29 pm, Con <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, how does properly install the Python MySQL db module for Mac OS > X? I was only able to locate the Win32 modules. > > Thanks in advance, > > -Conrad I tried this a couple of weeks ago using macports and had problems. See, for example: htt

Re: looking for membership management software -- Open Source, written in Python

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Kwan
On May 27, 6:13 am, Laura Creighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message of Mon, 26 May 2008 12:38:28 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >I forgot to ask: what's your target platform? I mentioned Organizer's > >Database, but it only runs on Windows. If you need a Linux or OS X > >solution, t

Re: Books for programmers

2008-06-03 Thread Rick Kwan
On Jun 3, 12:22 am, V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a C++, Java and C programmer, and I'm searching for a (preferably > printed) book that teaches me the "Python idioms", i.e. the "Python > way" of doing something. > > Ideally, I'm searching for a book like "Effective C++" or "Effective > Java",

Re: Command line input

2008-03-31 Thread Rick Dooling
On Mar 31, 2:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I receive input from the command line in Python? As long as we are all guessing, do you perhaps mean raw_input? my_name = raw_input("What is your name? ") What is your name? Rick >>> my_name 'Rick' --

Re: Recursively Backup Directories

2008-04-05 Thread Rick Dooling
On Apr 5, 6:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I would like to do > is recursively backup the specified directories . . . > but be able to specify exclusion directories (which copytree does > not appear to allow you to do). My initial thoughts were I'll > probably have to use os.path.walk for

Stani's python ide 'spe' editor problem

2008-04-09 Thread Rick King
for larger projects but limited in general. I really like spe and want to continue using it. Stani himself seems pretty unreachable. Does anyone have a clue for me about what the issue is? Is no one else using this great ide? Or is no one else having this problem? Thanks for any help

Stani's python ide 'spe' editor problem (again)

2008-04-09 Thread Rick King
In my previous post about spe I didn't mention that my set up is: python 2.4.4 wxpython 2.8.3 thanks. -Rick King -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pydev shell (was: Re: Stani's python ide 'spe' editor problem)

2008-04-09 Thread Rick King
debugger it got really weird: for example, at one point I went to the variables pane and clicked to open 'self' and it was at that moment that all this output came through on the console. Absolutely nonsensical. I'll check out the new stuff for eclipse. -Rick Fabio Zadrozny

Re: urgent question, about filesystem-files

2008-04-10 Thread Rick King
Could you first find out if it exists with isfile(..) and then try to open it? If it fails I *think* it would have to be open by another process. -Rick King Southfield MI bvidinli wrote: i started python programming a few months ago. now i need the code to understand if a file already

Frame work for simple physics web applications

2008-04-19 Thread Rick Muller
easy to use, but I would go to the trouble of learning one of the bigger frameworks if they would provide a more elegant solution. My web skillz are obviously several years out of date, so I'd like some guidance on the best way to update them. Thanks in advance, Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Frame work for simple physics web applications

2008-04-19 Thread Rick Muller
On Apr 19, 2:44 pm, globalrev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > www.vpython.orgmight be what you are looking for. Except, if I'm not mistaken, vpython isn't a web framework. It would work if I wanted to write some python scripts and have other people run them, but I want to run everything through a

Re: annoying dictionary problem, non-existing keys

2008-04-24 Thread Rick King
dict also has 'get' which provides a default if the key isn't defined: a={} print a.get('a','default') default -Rick King southfield MI -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Subclassing datetime.date does not seem to work

2008-04-25 Thread Rick King
then this statement: d = date2('12312008') Causes: TypeError: function takes exactly 3 arguments (1 given) Is there something basically wrong with subclassing date? -Rick King -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

new python docs

2008-09-03 Thread Rick Dooling
Wow! I've been away in other pursuits. The new docs are gorgeous and searchable. http://docs.python.org/dev/index.html Thank you, python.org. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why use special config formats?

2006-03-11 Thread Rick Zantow
"gangesmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > aah. you all are too stupid. -1 QOTW. -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to comment lot of lines in python

2006-04-03 Thread Rick Zantow
Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:44310867$1_1 @newspeer2.tds.net: > Sion Arrowsmith wrote: >> Eric Deveaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> some moderns editors allow you to comment/uncomment a selected Bunch >>> of lines of code >> >> Out of curiousity, is there a modern editor wh

Re: how to comment lot of lines in python

2006-04-04 Thread Rick Zantow
Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Rick Zantow wrote: >> Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:44310867$1_1 >> @newspeer2.tds.net: >> >>> Sion Arrowsmith wrote: >>>> Out of curiousity, is there a m

Re: how to print without blank?

2006-04-09 Thread Rick Zantow
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:54:17 -0700, Ju Hui wrote: > >> I want to print 3 numbers without blank. > [snip] >> how to print >> 012 >> ? > > Method one: accumulate your numbers into a single string, then print > it in one go. >

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Rick Dooling
No telling what Windows will do. :) I am a mere hobbyist programmer, but I think real programmers will tell you that it is a bad habit to use relative paths. Use absolute paths instead and remove all doubt. http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html RD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Verifying My Troublesome Linkage Claim between Python and Win7

2010-02-23 Thread Rick Dooling
On Feb 23, 1:08 pm, Gib Bogle wrote: > It isn't useful to respond to a serious question with OS bigotry. Okay, I'll go with what Aahz said: > I've seen similar issues on Win7. > AFAIK, this has nothing to do with Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: help with Python installation

2010-02-27 Thread Rick Dooling
> Hi, > I have been trying to install python on my Win ME system Try this: http://tinyurl.com/w7wgp RD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

does python have a generic object pool like commons-pool in Java

2009-07-14 Thread Rick Lawson
Appreciate any help on this. I am porting an app from Java to python and need generic object pooling with hooks for object initialization / cleanup and be able to specify an object timeout. Thanks ! Rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: does python have a generic object pool like commons-pool in Java

2009-07-15 Thread Rick Lawson
On Jul 15, 4:53 am, Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Jul 14, 6:34 pm, Rick Lawson wrote: > > > Appreciate any help on this. I am porting an app from Java to python > > and need generic object pooling with hooks for object initialization / > > cleanup and be able to specify an

uniicode and executing a process with subprocess.call, or os.system

2009-07-18 Thread Rick King
;t work. I am very confused about unicode. Can someone point me in the right direction? windows xp sp2 python 2.6.2 unicode Thanks! Rick King Southfield MI -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: uniicode and executing a process with subprocess.call, or os.system

2009-07-19 Thread Rick King
Thanks. I looked around for alternatives but didn't find this one. Rick Chris Rebert wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Rick King wrote: Hello, I want to copy files using subprocess.call or os.system where the file names are non-ascii, e.g. Serbian(latin), c's and s's w

py2exe-created exe results in "application failed to initialize"

2009-08-07 Thread Rick King
uot;filetoolGUI.py", other_resources = [(RT_MANIFEST, 1, manifest_template % dict(prog="FileTool"))], dest_base = "FileTool") setup( options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1,"optimize": 2,"ascii": 1,"bundle_files": 1}}, zipfile = None, windows = [FileTool], ) Any help will be greatly appreciated! Rick King Southfield MI USA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

how to use "exec" stmt to get input from user

2009-08-10 Thread Rick King
so means I have to have a command window. If I add this: self.stdin = self.edt_console_input (where self.edt_console_input is a wxPython text control) it just gets an EOF right away. Is there any way to do what I want to do? This might be better posted on the wxpython list. Thanks fo

Re: how to use "exec" stmt to get input from user

2009-08-10 Thread Rick King
but this currently brings everything to a halt. One thing this app does is execute processes using wxPythons wx.Process object and wx.Execute function. wxPython makes it easy to redirect stdin and stdout. I'm trying to do a similar thing for individual python statements. I'm not sur

Re: Sanitising arguments to shell commands

2009-08-21 Thread Rick King
shlex doesn't handle unicode input though, so, in general, it's not a good solution. Rick King Southfield MI http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html module shlex — Simple lexical analysis New in version 1.5.2. "The shlex class makes it easy to write lexical analyzers for

Re: Crappy Python code of the day

2017-02-28 Thread Rick Johnson
On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 10:16:14 PM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Oh, we know why the code is failing. We don't need help > diagnosing the UnboundLocalError exception. You're right: > there's an except pass around an assignment, so if the > assignment fails, `result` never gets set. >

Re: Exposing all methods of a class

2017-02-28 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 2:15:58 PM UTC-6, Pete Dowdell wrote: > I use Python, mainly with Django, for work. I was wondering > if anyone has encountered an editor that could display a > class with all inherited methods included in the editor's > view of the class code. Personally, i'm a min

Re: Exposing all methods of a class

2017-03-01 Thread Rick Johnson
On Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 4:51:34 AM UTC-6, Terry Reedy wrote: > The class listing provided by the pydoc module browser, > also in help(someclass), do list all methods. Try > >>> import tkinter > >>> help(tkinter.Text) > for instance. > > On 2/28/201

Re: FYI: Removing posts with All Cap Authors

2017-03-04 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 3:05:57 PM UTC-6, Peter Pearson wrote: > I suspect I'm not the only fossil here who gets kinda > misty contemplating NNTP's history. Yeah. Well... Python-list has developed quite a reputation within usenet antiquities circles for its highly coveted collection of rare

Re: newbie question re classes and self

2017-03-29 Thread Rick Johnson
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 3:09:45 AM UTC-5, loial wrote: > Can I pass self(or all its variables) to a class? > Basically, how do I make all the variables defined in self > in the calling python script available to the python class > I want to call? Your question, as presented, is difficult to

Re: Program uses twice as much memory in Python 3.6 than in Python 3.5

2017-03-29 Thread Rick Johnson
On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 8:17:01 PM UTC-5, Jan Gosmann wrote: > On 29 Mar 2017, at 20:12, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > > If you can demonstrate this effect using simple example > > code without the external dependencies (using nothing but > > the standard library) and people can replicate it,

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-03-29 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 1:21:18 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Steve D'Aprano > wrote: > [...] So, for instance, Eryk Sun commented that my rounded > box example didn't render correctly in all fonts - but in > the future, a new version of those fonts could

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-03-29 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 2:53:49 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Mikhail V wrote: > > On 26 March 2017 at 20:10, Steve D'Aprano > > wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 03:57 am, Mikhail V wrote: > I generally find that when people say that Unicode doesn't > so

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-03-29 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 6:42:36 PM UTC-5, Mikhail V wrote: > And all text I currently read on my monitor are prerendered > bitmaps, refined manually for frequently used sizes, and > that is how it should be made. IOW there are much more > important aspects than the ability to scale a text lin

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-03-31 Thread Rick Johnson
On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 12:43:59 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > Except that it doesn't actually take very much work to call > on someone else's library, which is what you get when you > use Unicode properly. (At least, assuming you're using a > decent language like Python, which comes wit

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-03-31 Thread Rick Johnson
On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 2:58:53 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:53:35 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 1:21:18 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Steve D'Aprano >

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-03-31 Thread Rick Johnson
On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 9:14:54 AM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:21 pm, Rick Johnson wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 2:53:49 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:25 AM, Mikhail V wrote: > >>

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-04-01 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 11:01:03 AM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 12:17 pm, Rick Johnson wrote: > > > Most people just quietly change the filename and move on > > There are over a billion people in China, almost a billion > more in India, a

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-04-01 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 3:08:20 PM UTC-5, Mikhail V wrote: > On 1 April 2017 at 06:38, Rick Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 9:14:54 AM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > > > - and making band names look ǨØØĻ and annoy old fuddy- > > >

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-04-01 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 9:18:14 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: [...] > Even India has a literacy rate of 74%, which is not far off > the functional literacy rate in the US of 86%. > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3880355.html And your source is the HuffPo? Seri

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-04-03 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 9:32:17 PM UTC-5, MRAB wrote: > Sometimes he mentions MUDs, sometimes he mentions Pike, but at least he > doesn't rant. I have not even _begun_ to rant. Yet... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-04-03 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 11:26:50 AM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 04:41 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > > On 4/1/2017 12:00 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > > > > example of the Ugly American. > > > > As an American I resent your promotion and perpetuation of > > an ugly ethno-centr

Re: Text-mode apps (Was :Who are the "spacists"?)

2017-04-03 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 3:49:43 PM UTC-5, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 02 April 2017 12:26:40 Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 04:41 pm, Terry Reedy wrote: > > > On 4/1/2017 12:00 PM, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > > > > > > > > example of the Ugly American. > > > > > > As an American

Re: Find out which module a class came from

2017-04-07 Thread Rick Johnson
On Friday, April 7, 2017 at 7:49:11 PM UTC-5, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > But for merely ordinary obfuscation caused by poor design, > your best bet is probably to inspect Foo.__module__. > > You can also try: > > inspect.getsource(FooClass) > inspect.getsourcefile(FooClass) Hmm, I tried that code b

Re: read in a list in a file to list

2017-04-08 Thread Rick Johnson
@John General debugging methodology dictates that when your output does not match your expectation, you must never assume anything. Here you made the fatal mistake of assuming that: (1) files are stored as list objects, or (2) Python automatically converts file data to list objects, or (3) that py

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 2:39:18 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 13:57:28 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > I don't know anyone who has ever said "this interpreter is > too fast, can you make it run slower?" LOL! > [...] > > Well, maybe. As is pointed out many, many times

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 4:05:57 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Even better would be if the compiler was smart enough to > > use the optimized, fast runtime when the dynamic features > > aren't used, and fall back on a slower implem

Re: Python and the need for speed

2017-04-09 Thread Rick Johnson
On Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 1:34:39 PM UTC-5, bartc wrote: > On 09/04/2017 04:57, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 10:20 AM, wrote: > > > I've an idea that > > > http://www.mos6581.org/python_need_for_speed is a week > > > late for April Fool's but just in case I'm sure that some

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