On 2016-06-18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 09:49 am, Ian Kelly wrote:
>
>> If I tell you that the speed of light is 300,000,000 m/s, do you think
>> that measurement has 9 significant digits? If you do, then you would be
>> wrong.
> What if the figure to nine significant digits *a
On 2013-03-18, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Alan Kay's idea of message-passing in Smalltalk are interesting, and
> like the questioner says, never took off. My answer was that Alan
> Kay's abstraction of "Everything is an object" fails because you can't
> have message-passing, an I/O task, working in th
On 2009-05-11, Gabriel wrote:
> Subject: issue with twisted and reactor. Can't stop reactor
Not having written anything using twisted I cannot help you much with your
code; but, I cannot resist commenting about your subject line:
I suspect that if are having an issue with your reactor after bein
On 2009-05-13, Paul Hemans wrote:
> http://localhost/common/foxisapi.dll/tmsmail.x2.isapi?
Note the entire URL.
> So I am trying httplib I have encoded the GET request with urllib.quote
urllib would be much easier if you don't need low level control -- it will
automatically call httplib for you.
On 2009-05-13, Tim Harig wrote:
> import urllib
> url =
> "http://localhost/common/foxisapi.dll/tmsmail.x2.isapi? content = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
forgot to urlencode:
host = "http://localhost";
request = r"""/common/foxisapi.dll/tmsmail.x2.isapi?
On 2009-05-13, Tim Harig wrote:
> host = "http://localhost";
> request = r"""/common/foxisapi.dll/tmsmail.x2.isapi? schema='' class='replicateApplication.getChanges' /"""
> url = host + urllib.quote(request)
> content =
On 2009-05-18, Adam Gaskins wrote:
> I am pretty sure this shouldn't be as hard as I'm making it to be, but
> how does one go about generating tones of specific frequency, volume, and
> L/R pan? I've been digging around the internet for info, and found a few
This can be done with SDL which wou
On 2010-11-14, Camille Harang wrote:
> # pg_dump prompts for password so I inject it in stdin.
> pgsql.stdin.write('MY_PASSWORD' + '\n')
For security reasons, some programs use direct access to the TTY system
for password entry rather then reading from stdin. Most of these programs
provide anoth
On 2010-11-14, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-11-14, Camille Harang wrote:
>> # pg_dump prompts for password so I inject it in stdin.
>> pgsql.stdin.write('MY_PASSWORD' + '\n')
>
> For security reasons, some programs use direct access to the TTY system
>
On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote:
> How can I enable the server process to write into the client's
> directories?
> If I change the inetd service to run as 'root', I guess that would
> work, but then the client couldn't remove the files put there after
> the request.
Python provides os.setuid() an
On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote:
> On Nov 15, 10:41 am, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-11-15, Tim Arnold wrote:
>>
>> > How can I enable the server process to write into the client's
>> > directories?
>> > If I change the inetd service to run as &#x
On 2010-11-17, huisky wrote:
> I want to read this file and do the summarize how much total CPU time
> consumed for each user.
> Is Python able to do so or say easy to achieve this?, anybody can give
> me some hints, appricate very much!
The question is, is the information you want available in t
On 2010-11-17, MRAB wrote:
> When a user starts, save the info in the first dict, and when a user
> finishes, calculate the elapsed time and add it to the total for that
> user.
Perhaps you know more about the structure of this data. It seems to me
that a user might have more then a single job(?
On 2010-11-18, dave wrote:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
>
> Using this package, WITHOUT having MySQL installed on my Mac OS X, how
> can I use python to connect to a remote MySQL server?
>
> All of the tutorials mention having to download MySQL!
You don't have to install all of
On 2010-11-18, Steve Holden wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 7:21 PM, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-11-18, dave wrote:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/
>>>
>>> Using this package, WITHOUT having MySQL installed on my Mac OS X, how
>>> can I u
On 2010-11-18, noydb wrote:
> I have an executable that I want to run within python code. The exe
> requires an input text file, the user to click a 'compute' button, and
> then the exe calculates several output values, one of which I want to
> capture into a variable. Can I use Python to supply
On 2010-11-18, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-11-18, noydb wrote:
>> I have an executable that I want to run within python code. The exe
>> requires an input text file, the user to click a 'compute' button, and
>> then the exe calculates several output values, one of
On 2010-11-18, noydb wrote:
> import subprocess
> pig = subprocess.Popen(["C:\Halls\hallbig2.exe"],
> stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
> result = pig.communicate(input='C:\Halls\Input\Ea39j.txt')[-1] #I need
> to capture the, what I think is the, last output
>From the subprocess doc
On 2010-11-18, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> Tim Harig wrote:
>> If you are not already, I would highly suggest using Python3 with the
>> subprocess module:
> Suggesting subprocess is a good idea, *highly* sug
On 2010-11-18, noydb wrote:
> On Nov 18, 5:22 pm, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-11-18, noydb wrote:
> Okay, I see now. I did run it to start with 0 -- still same result no
> matter if 0 or -1.
> So, what is result (stdout, using [0]) in this case? (yes, i know I
> sound
C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Harig\My Documents\autoCalc>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 30D9-35E0
Directory of C:\Documents and Settings\Tim Harig\My Documents\autoCalc
11/19/2010 12:20 PM .
11/19/2010 12:20 PM ..
11/19/2010 12:19
On 2010-11-25, Hugo Léveillé wrote:
> I'm starting various application using subprocess.Popen without any
> problem. The problem is with application inside "Program Files". It
> looks like subprocess is stopping the application string after
> "Program". I tried puting the programe name inside doub
On 2010-11-28, News123 wrote:
> Thanks in advance for any pointers ideas.
google XPCOM
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
On 2010-11-28, He Jibo wrote:
> I did a lot of Googling, and get the following code. The following
> code can get the url of the first tab in internet explorer. My
> question is, how can I get the url of the current active tab? Thanks.
It would be beneficial to know what your ultimate goal is. T
On 2010-11-29, Michel Claveau - MVP
wrote:
> Hello!
>
>> The "InternetExplorer.Application" automation object doesn't contain
>> any way to manipulate tabs directly
>
> False. Try this example:
> import win32com.client
> for instance in
> win32com.client.Dispatch('{9BA05972-F6A8-11CF-A442-0
On 2010-11-29, tinauser wrote:
> '''
> INSERT INTO 'foo' VALUES (?,?)
> '''
> ,('NULL','yyy'))
s/'NULL'/None/
> I get a datatype mismatch error.
The sqlite module is smart enough to convert between Python types and
Sqlite types. If you pass it 'NULL' it thinks you are passing it a string.
Pyth
On 2010-11-29, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:19:19 -0500
> Mel wrote:
>> tinauser wrote:
>> '''INSERT INTO foo VALUES (NULL, ?)'''
>
> Does this work in SQLite:
>
> INSERT INTO foo (name) VALUES ('xxx')
>
> That's the standard SQL way.
Yes, it works; but, the OP asked specif
On 2010-11-29, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:11:18 + (UTC)
> Tim Harig wrote:
>> > INSERT INTO foo (name) VALUES ('xxx')
>> >
>> > That's the standard SQL way.
>>
>> Yes, it works; but, the OP asked speci
On 2010-11-30, goldtech wrote:
> Hi,
>
> say:
import re
> m="cccvlvlvlvnnnflfllffccclfnnnooo"
re.compile(r'ccc.*nnn')
rtt=.sub("||",m)
rtt
> '||ooo'
>
> The regex is eating up too much. What I want is every non-overlapping
> occurrence I think.
>
> so rtt would
Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Oct 9 2010, 00:16:06)
[GCC 4.4.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> m="cccvlvlvlvnnnflfllffccclfnnnooo"
>>> pattern = re.compile(r'ccc[^n]*nnn')
>>> pattern.sub("||", m)
'||flfllff||ooo'
>>> # or, as
On 2010-11-30, javivd wrote:
> I have a case now in wich another file has been provided (besides the
> database) that tells me in wich column of the file is every variable,
> because there isn't any blank or tab character that separates the
> variables, they are stick together. This second file sp
On 2010-11-30, mpnordland wrote:
> I have situation where I need to be able to get the current active
> user, and catch user switching eg user1 locks screen, leaves computer,
> user2 comes, and logs on.
> basically, when there is any type of user switch my script needs to
> know.
Well you could u
On 2010-12-01, javivd wrote:
> On Nov 30, 11:43 pm, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-11-30, javivd wrote:
>>
>> > I have a case now in wich another file has been provided (besides the
>> > database) that tells me in wich column of the file is every variable,
>>
On 2010-12-01, goldtech wrote:
> Start
> Main
> Global Var
> Subprogram1
> Subprogram2
> Subprogram3
> End of Main
> End
module_wide_var = value
def Subprogram1:
# code
def Subprogram2:
# code
def Subprogram3:
# code
def main:
Subprogram1()
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:08 AM, m b wrote:
>>> > if __name__ == "__main__":
>>> > main()
>>
>> What does this mean?
It is a Python idiom and a good practice. Strictly speaking it is
unnecessary. Python doesn't recognize any functional initialization
vector other then the start of the file. W
On 2010-12-02, Harishankar wrote:
> There are some reasons why I hate exceptions but that is a different
> topic. However, in short I can say that personally:
>
> 1. I hate try blocks which add complexity to the code when none is
> needed. Try blocks make code much more unreadable in my view and
On 2010-12-02, Harishankar wrote:
> I am also wary of using larger catch-all try blocks or try blocks with
> multiple exception exits (which seem to make tracking subtle bugs
> harder). I prefer the philosophy of dealing with errors immediately as
If you are using exceptions to try to catch bu
On 2010-12-02, Harishankar wrote:
> I understand that the error vs exception debate is quite a big one in the
> programming community as a whole and I don't consider myself very
Actually, I thought that debate was resolved years ago. I cannot think of
a single recently developed programming la
On 2010-12-02, Harishankar wrote:
>> Actually, finer grained error handling commonly covers up bugs. If you
>> want to find bugs, you want to make the program prone to crashing if a
>> bug is present. It is all too easy to accidently mistake the return
>> value of a function as error condition a
On 2010-12-02, Paul Rubin wrote:
> MRAB writes:
>> When writing the C code for the new regex module I thought that it
>> would've been easier if I could've used exceptions to propagate errors
>> and unwind the stack, instead of having to return an error code which
>> had to be checked by the call
On 2010-12-02, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>>> That's called longjmp.
>>
>> The problem is that you might have partially allocated data structures
>> that you need to free before you can go anywhere.
>
> Alloca can help with that since the s
On 2010-12-02, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>>> longjmp. Alternatively you can have an auxiliary stack of cleanup
>>> records that the longjmp handler walks through. Of course if you do
>>
>> Only if you already have pointers to *all* of the data str
On 2010-12-02, MRAB wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 19:15, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-12-02, Paul Rubin wrote:
>>> Tim Harig writes:
>>>>> longjmp. Alternatively you can have an auxiliary stack of cleanup
>>>>> records that the longjmp handler walks thr
On 2010-12-02, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>> I am not talking about what setjmp() has to do, I am talking about what
>> *you* have to do after setjmp() returns. If you have allocated memory in
>> intermediate functions and you don't have a reference
On 2010-12-02, draeath wrote:
> The idea is that this script will run periodically, pulling the table,
> and comparing the data gathered at that run to that stored by the
> previous, acting on changes made, and storing the current data back (to
> be referenced against in the next invocation)
S
On 2010-12-03, draeath wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:55:53 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:
>
> Thanks for taking the time to check in on this, Tim!
>
>> So, basically, you want to store a local copy of the data and sync it to
>> the original.
> In a way. I only need to stor
On 2010-12-03, MRAB wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 01:42, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-12-03, draeath wrote:
>>> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 22:55:53 +, Tim Harig wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for taking the time to check in on this, Tim!
>>>
>>>> So, basicall
On 2010-12-03, Harishankar wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:52:57 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:
>
>> If you are having that issue, then you are likely placing the try blocks
>> at too low of a level in your code. In general you will find that most
>> systems have a gateway funct
On 2010-12-03, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>>> There are better ways to handle errors than Python's exception system.
>> I'm curious -- what ways would they be?
>> I'm aware of three general exception handling techniques: ...
>> What else is there?
>
> The Erlang approach is to ch
On 2010-12-04, alex23 wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2:12 am, Tim Harig wrote:
>> Actually, I thought that debate was resolved years ago. I cannot think of
>> a single recently developed programming language that does not provide
>> exception handling mechanisms because they have been
On 2010-12-03, Harishankar wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:31:43 +, Mark Wooding wrote:
>> In general, recovering from an exceptional condition requires three
>> activities:
>>
>> * doing something about the condition so that the program can continue
>> running;
>>
>> * identifying s
On 2010-12-05, Harishankar wrote:
>> Or consider this code:
>>
>> if y != 0:
>> result = x/y
>> else:
>> handle_division_by_zero()
>>
>>
>> This is also unsafe unless you know the type of y. Suppose y is an
>> interval quantity that straddles zero, then division by y may fail even
>> th
On 2010-12-05, Tim Harig wrote:
> Another, questionable but useful use, is to ignore the complex accounting
> of your position inside of a complex data structure. You can continue
> moving through the structure until an exception is raised indicating
> that you have reached a bou
On 2010-12-05, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>> A friend was trying to derive a mathematical formula for determining
>> the possibly distribution of results from rolling arbitrariy numbers
>> of m n-sided dice
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinom
On 2010-12-05, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>> The fact that I bothered to create classes for the dice and roles, rather
>> then simply iterating over a list of numbers, should tell you that I
>> produced was of a far more flexible nature; including the support f
On 2010-12-05, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-12-05, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Tim Harig writes:
>>> The fact that I bothered to create classes for the dice and roles, rather
>>> then simply iterating over a list of numbers, should tell you that I
>>> produc
On 2010-12-06, Andreas Waldenburger wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 19:52:54 -0800 Chris Rebert wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM, shearichard
>> wrote:
>> > Hi - PEP8 says lines should not exceed 79 characters in length
>> > ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ ).
>> >
>> > So if you
Mr. Chase, I really wouldn't even bother wasting my time on this one.
He asked an incomplete question to start with; so, the replies that
he received were insufficient to solve his problem. He still has not
provided enough information to know how to answer his question propery.
He doesn't understa
On 2010-12-12, javivd wrote:
> On Dec 1, 7:15 am, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2010-12-01, javivd wrote:
>> > On Nov 30, 11:43 pm, Tim Harig wrote:
>> >> encodings and how you mark line endings. Frankly, the use of the
>> >> world columns in the heade
On 2010-12-12, Tim Harig wrote:
>> I used .seek() in this manner, but is not working.
>
> It is working the way it is supposed to.
> If you want the absolute position in a column:
>
> f = open('somefile.txt', 'r').read().splitlines()
>
On 2010-12-13, mpnordland wrote:
> I think I do understand multiuser systems, although I'm sorry I did
> not make my self clear. Yes, I understand that there can be multiple
> people logged in, and yes if you really wanted to, you could login as
Apparantly you do not. There is nothing that preve
On 2010-12-16, John Gordon wrote:
> I like this style more, mostly because it eliminates a lot of indentation.
>
> However I recall one of my college CS courses stating that "one entry,
> one exit" was a good way to write code, and this style has lots of exits.
So, take the good intentation from
On 2010-12-17, Torsten Mohr wrote:
> i search for a possibility to access OpenOffoce SpreadSheets from Python
> with a reasonably new version of Python.
>
> Can anybody point me to a package that can do this?
There is no package needed to read or write the new open document files.
The files are
On 2010-12-17, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I would strongly recommend against floundering about in OOo's very
> complex XML files - it is trivially easy to render a document unusable.
I do it all the time and have never had a problem. I don't generate the
documents from scratch; I generate a te
[Wrapped to meet RFC1855 Netiquette Guidelines]
On 2010-12-20, spaceman-spiff wrote:
> This is a rather long post, but i wanted to include all the details &
> everything i have tried so far myself, so please bear with me & read
> the entire boringly long post.
>
> I am trying to parse a ginormous
On 2010-12-20, spaceman-spiff wrote:
> 0. Goal :I am looking for a specific element..there are several 10s/100s
> occurrences of that element in the 1gb xml file. The contents of the xml,
> is just a dump of config parameters from a packet switch( although imho,
> the contents of the xml dont mat
On 2010-12-22, Sean wrote:
> Anybody know where I can find a Python Development Environment in the
> form of a web app for use with Chrome OS. I have been looking for a
> few days and all i have been able to find is some old discussions with
> python developers talking about they will want one for
[Reordered to preserve context in bottom posting]
On 2010-12-23, Hidura wrote:
> 2010/12/22, Tim Harig :
>> On 2010-12-22, Sean wrote:
>>> Anybody know where I can find a Python Development Environment in the
>>> form of a web app for use with Chrome OS. I have been
On 2010-12-23, Hidura wrote:
> Ok, but you are comparing a web-based framework with a native-based
> framework that use the components of the system to make all the things
> that need, a web-based framewok use the resourses of the browser to
Right. That is exactly what I am comparing.
> make it
On 2010-12-23, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>> I don't personally think the web makes a good framework for highly
>> interactive applications as they must work within the constraints of the
>> browser and IDEs are highly interactive applications by their very nature.
>> Perhaps HTML5/CSS3 will change
On 2010-12-25, Steve Holden wrote:
> On 12/23/2010 4:34 PM, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
>> For large datasets I always have huge question marks if one says "xml".
>> But I don't want to start a flame war.
I would agree; but, you don't always have the choice over the data format
that you hav
On 2010-12-25, Nobody wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:41:29 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>>> XML works extremely well for large datasets.
> One advantage it has over many legacy formats is that there are no
> inherent 2^31/2^32 limitations. Many binary formats inherently cannot
> support files larger t
On 2010-12-25, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 22:34 +, Nobody wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:41:29 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>> XML is typically processed sequentially, so you don't need to create a
>> decompressed copy of the file before you start processing it.
>
> Yep.
On 2010-12-26, flebber wrote:
> I was hoping someone could shed some (articles, links) in regards
> python 3 design ideals. I was searching guido's blog which has his
> overarching view of Python from an early development perspective
> http://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/pythons-design-phil
On 2010-12-26, Nobody wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 01:05:53 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:
>
>>> XML is typically processed sequentially, so you don't need to create a
>>> decompressed copy of the file before you start processing it.
>>
>> Sometimes XML is
On 2010-12-26, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Tim Harig, 26.12.2010 02:05:
>> On 2010-12-25, Nobody wrote:
>>> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:41:29 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>>>> Of course, one advantage of XML is that with so much redundant text, it
>>>> compresses well.
On 2010-12-26, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> Tim Harig, 26.12.2010 10:22:
>> On 2010-12-26, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>>> Tim Harig, 26.12.2010 02:05:
>>>> On 2010-12-25, Nobody wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:41:29 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>>>&g
On 2010-12-27, flebber wrote:
> Is there anyay to use input masks in python? Similar to the function
> found in access where a users input is limited to a type, length and
> format.
>
> So in my case I want to ensure that numbers are saved in a basic
> format.
> 1) Currency so input limited to 000
On 2010-12-27, Tim Harig wrote:
> ... if re.match(r'''^[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}$''', timeInput) == None:
[SNIP]
> Currency works the same way using validating it against:
> r'''[0-9]+\.[0-9]{2}'''
Sorry, you need to check
On 2010-12-27, Alan Meyer wrote:
> On 12/26/2010 3:15 PM, Tim Harig wrote:
> ...
>> The problem is that XML has become such a defacto standard that it
>> used automatically, without thought, even when there are much better
>> alternatives available.
>
> I agree wi
On 2010-12-31, flebber wrote:
> On Dec 28 2010, 12:21 am, Adam Tauno Williams
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 20:37 -0800, flebber wrote:
>> > Is there anyay to use input masks in python? Similar to the function
>> > found in access where a users input is limited to a type, length and
>> > form
On 2011-01-05, Slie wrote:
> Is there a graphing API, someone suggests?
You should check the archives, variations of this question get asked
a lot.
I use GNUplot to do my graphing. I simply pipe it commands and data
through the subprocess module; but, there are libraries available for
interacti
On 2011-01-06, Slie wrote:
[reformated to <80 columns per RFC 1855 guidelines]
> I have read several examples on python post requests but I'm not sure
> mine needs to be that complicated.
>From the HTML example on the page you posted:
On 2011-01-06, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Garland Fulton wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Tim Harig wrote:
>>> Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Oct 9 2010, 00:16:06)
>>> [GCC 4.4.4] on linux2
>>> Type "help"
On 2011-01-06, dmitrey wrote:
> and after several pages of code they are using somewhere, maybe only
> one time, e.g.
[SNIP]
> It makes programs less clear, you have to scroll several pages of code
> in IDE to understand what it refers to.
Python doesn't require imports to be at the top of a file
On 2011-01-06, dmitrey wrote:
[re-ordered]
> On Jan 6, 5:57 pm, Tim Harig wrote:
>> Python doesn't require imports to be at the top of a file. They can be
>> imported at any time.
>>
>> > import MyModule
>> > (...lots of code...)
>>
On 2011-01-12, Physics Python wrote:
> while guess != the_number:
=
> while tries > 7:
> if guess > the_number:
> print "Lower..."
> else:
> print "Higher..."
> guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess:
[wrapped lines to <80 characters per RFC 1855]
On 2011-01-12, Physics Python wrote:
> Is this an indentation problem then?
That depends how you look at it. I was not clear from your code exactly
where you wanted to handle things.
> How do I update the sentinel within the secondary while loop. I
On 2011-01-12, Jason Staudenmayer wrote:
> Return False instead of break should work
>
> else:
> print "You guessed it! The number was", the_number
> print "And it only took you", tries, "tries!\n"
> return False
Since he isn't in a function, that isn't any good. He wo
In case you still need help:
- # Set the initial values
- the_number= random.randrange(100) + 1
- tries = 0
- guess = None
-
- # Guessing loop
- while guess != the_number and tries < 7:
- guess = int(raw_input("Take a guess: "))
- if guess > the_number:
- print "Lower..."
-
On 2011-01-14, Ata Jafari wrote:
> I'm trying to develop a program like family tree maker. I have all
> information, so there is no need to search on the net. This must be
> something like trees. Can someone help me? I'm at the beginning.
I don't know anything specific about family tree software
On 2011-01-16, John Nagle wrote:
> On 1/15/2011 10:48 PM, Aman wrote:
>> @nagle Means you are suggesting me not to proceed with Python because I've
>> had experience with C++?
>
>No, Python is quite useful, but on the slow side. If you're I/O
> bound, not time critical, or otherwise not perf
On 2011-01-16, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>> Those who are concerned about performance should check out Go.
>> Garbage collection, duck typing, and compiles to a native binary.
>> It creates a great middle ground between C++ and Python. Any C and/or
>>
On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 09:47:35 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:
>
>> One of the things that gives me hope
>> for Go is that it is backed by Google so I expect that it may gain some
>> rather rapid adoption. It has made enough of a wake
On 2011-01-16, geremy condra wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2011-01-16, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> If the author thinks that Go is a "tried and true" (his words, not mine)
>>> language "where programmers can
On 2011-01-17, Paul Rubin wrote:
> geremy condra writes:
>> I agree. That does not make Go that language, and many of the choices
>> made during Go's development indicate that they don't think it's that
>> language either. I'm speaking specifically of its non-object model,
>> lack of exceptions,
On 2011-01-17, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:12:04 +0000, Tim Harig wrote:
>
>> Python has been widely used by people like us that happen to like the
>> language and found ways to use it in our workplaces; but, most of the
>> time it is an unoffici
On 2011-01-17, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2011-01-16, geremy condra wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Tim Harig wrote:
>
>>>> Personally, I think the time is ripe for a language that bridges the
>
In comp.lang.python, you wrote:
> Tim Harig, 17.01.2011 13:25:
>> If I didn't think Python was a good language, I wouldn't be here.
>> Nevertheless, it isn't a good fit for many pieces of software where a
>> systems language is better suited. Reasons includ
On 2011-01-17, geremy condra wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Tim Harig wrote:
>> On 2011-01-16, geremy condra wrote:
>> I wouldn't say Go is narrowly targeted. It's a systems language that can
>> compete in the same domain with scripting languages. It
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