On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> I'd like to point out that it's frustrating when you find a piece of code
> that you'd like to use but neither easy_install nor pip work cos it can't be
> found. Worse still when you want to try a really popular product like
> taskcoach, but
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM, alhad wrote:
> but, i am getting AttributeError for "paintRequested"
Before executing that line, find out what 'preview' contains. My guess
is that you have an error return such as None, which will of course
not have a paintRequested attribute. If it's not obvious
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Edward d'Auvergne
wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows of how to detect when IO redirection
> of any form is happening within a Python program? I would like to
> emulate the behaviour of the GNU tools (for example the Unix commands
> 'ls' or 'grep') whereby a
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Nibin V M wrote:
> # python test.py
> File "test.py", line 1
> with open('/etc/trueuserowners') as res_own_file:
> ^
> IndentationError: unexpected indent
Make sure your first code line is flush left. Since indentation
indicates block structure (and not
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Edward d'Auvergne
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the incredibly quick responses! The os.isatty() call (and
> sys.std*.isatty() calls as suggested by Chris Angelico at
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2012-April/1291048.html)
>
(cmd)
It's slightly less reasonable considering that the `subprocess` module
is preferred over os.system().
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 18Apr2012 22:07, Jordan Perr wrote:
> | I came across this case while debugging some Python code that contained an
> | error stemming from the use of multiline strings as comments. The code
> | contained a very long list of objects, and
t if a triple-quoted string contains Python code, but
that would always be an issue.
Option 1: New keyword.
comment def
... parser completely ignores these lines ...
comment break
Option 2: Reuse keywords.
from None import
... ignore these lines ...
from True import
The exact choice of key
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:46 PM, contro opinion wrote:
import hashlib
>
f=open('c:\gpg4win-2.1.0.exe','rb')
print hashlib.md5(f.read()).hexdigest()
> ad6245f3238922bb7afdc4a6d3402a65
print hashlib.sha1(f.read()).hexdigest()
> da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
>
> i get
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Alek Storm wrote:
>> comment def
>> ... parser completely ignores these lines ...
>> comment break
>
>
> I believe the more Pythonic syntax would be:
>
> comment:
> ...some
> ...indented
> ...lines
>
> God help us if that ever happens.
Certainly not. T
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> There are many things I don't like about Python. The first flaw is the
> absence of anonymous code blocks, but I've already solved this problem.
You mean lambdas? Yeah, they're a lot more limited in Python than in
some other languages. However, you
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Devin Jeanpierre
wrote:
> Why don't you allow nested multiline comments? Many languages (e.g.
> ML, Scheme, Haskell, etc.) allow you to nest multi-line comments. It's
> mostly the C family of languages that refuse to do this, AFAIK.
Allowing nesting or not allowi
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> I read that bug fix releases have a 6-month cycle :(
> It seems that I'll have to work around the problem...
If a fix has been committed, the easiest thing to do is clone the
Mercurial repository and build Python from source. Takes a little bit
of
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Sania wrote:
> So now my regex is
>
> dead=re.match(r".*death toll.{0,20}(\d[,\d\.]*)", text)
>
> But I only find 7 not 657. How is it that the group is only matching
> the last digit? The whole thing is parenthesis not just the last
> part. ?
Your problem is
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> def foo(words):
> "Foo-ify words (which must be a list)"
>
> What if I want words to be the more general case of something you can
> iterate over? How do people talk about that in docstrings? Do you say
> "something which can be iterated ove
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Albert van der Horst
wrote:
> I still think the doubling convention of Algol68 is superior:
> """Help me Obiwan,"" she said, ""You're my only hope!"""
>
> No special treatment of any other symbol than the quote itself.
> A quoting symbol is such a devious syntacti
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:12 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> that's what i meant about beauty and elegance. the "bang per buck"
> ratio in python, results obtained for the number of characters used,
> is higher, and that's something that i personally find to be a
> priority over speed.
Number of charac
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:56 PM, lkcl luke wrote:
> i'm belabouring the point (not entirely intentionally) but you see how
> clumsy that is? it's probably just as complex in the actual
> lexer/grammar file in the http://python.org source code itself, as it
> is to think about in real life and to
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Sania wrote:
> Azrazer what you suggested works but I need to make sure that it
> catches numbers like 6,370 as well as 637. And I tried tweaking the
> regex around from the one you said in your reply but It didn't work
> (probably would have if I was more adept).
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Gabriel Novaes wrote:
> The domains testes1.xyz.com.br, tes.xyzk.com.br, xx.xyzk.com.br through a DNS
> redirect TYPE A link to the server IP.
>
> In most cases I get the request.META ['HTTP_HOST'] with the URL in the
> request header, but today I had a problem
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> It's not nearly as adaptive as scaning $PATH for ssh, falling back on putty
> if necessary - this is analogous to GNU autoconf. You'd probably have a
> small class you genericize this with - with one instance for each such
> executable that
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:38 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On Apr 20, 5:54 am, Jacob MacDonald wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:28:50 PM UTC-7, dmitrey wrote:
>> > can I somehow overload operators like "=>", "->" or something like
>> > that?
>
>> I don't believe that you could overload those part
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Yigit Turgut wrote:
> On Apr 19, 11:02 pm, "Steve" wrote:
>> > "Yigit Turgut" wrote in message
>> >news:[email protected]...
>> > When I use os.system() function, script waits for termination of the
>>
>> windows tha
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:44 AM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> The question then is whether to choose or auto-detect. Attempting to
>> auto-detect could be quite inefficient; imagine if you have to call on
>&g
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> Another option is to rely on ugly pseudo-operators:
> a .imp. b
> a .imp (b .imp. c)
Or functions:
implies(a,b)
implies(a,implies(b,c))
That's the simplest option :) No hacks required, syntax is clear even
if the reader doesn't know what you're
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:10 AM, dmitrey wrote:
> I have spent some time searching for a bug in my code, it was due to
> different work of "is" with () and []:
() is ()
> True
[] is []
> False
Okay, let's take a step back. What do you expect "is" to be doing? It
doesn't check for equali
t [].append(1)
> None
This looks at the return value of the append() method. Since it
doesn't return self, the return value isn't much use. Incidentally,
your function call in the first block would have displayed the return
value had it not been None - that's how the interactive
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Rotwang wrote:
> In general there's no reason why
>
a.method(arguments)
print a
>
> will print the same thing as
>
print a.method(arguments)
>
> since a method doesn't assign the value it returns to the instance on which
> it is called; what it does
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> Then define a class called Bool that redefines things like __rlshift__ and
> __rrshift__. That would get >>= and <<= for Implications and nodus tolens.
> It's not a total solution. I can't see how you're going to get IFF, NAND and
> NOR.
IFF
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Foster Rilindo wrote:
> Is this right way to concatenate a file or is there a better way?
I'd be inclined to ignore shutil and simply open one file for reading,
the other for appending, and manually transfer data from one to the
other.
open(disk1,"ab").write(ope
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 4/20/2012 9:41 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>
>> Except that "list of foos" and "sequence of foos" make sense from a
>> grammar standpoint, but "iterator of foos" does not. Or maybe it does?
>
> I consider it grammatical, but idiomatically, it *is*
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> Because an iterator isn't a container. I don't know, maybe it does make
> sense, but my first impression is that it sounds wrong.
>
> A basket of apples is a basket which contains apples, in the same way a
> list contains foos. But an iterator
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM, gst wrote:
> case 2) also ok to me:
>
x = id([]) ; y = id([])
x == y
> True
>
>
> case 3) NOT ok to me :
>
x = id([])
y = id([])
x == y
> False
The fact that ids get reused at all is an implementation detail ONLY.
In CPython, id
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> The CPython interpreter is especially aggressive in optimizing multiple
> literals in the same line. Compare this:
>
x = 3.1; y = 3.1; x is y
> True
>
> with this:
>
x = 3.1
y = 3.1
x is y
> False
>
>
> Again, this is an
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:43 AM, John Nagle wrote:
> Operator "is" should be be an error between immutables
> unless one is a built-in constant. ("True" and "False"
> should be made hard constants, like "None". You can't assign
> to None, but you can assign to True, usually with
> unwanted result
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 6:08 AM, wrote:
> Thanks! Here is what I need to do, perhaps you can give me some hints.
>
> A generic module, used across different independent programs, puts its
> computing results in a var fairly big, ~50KB.
>
> I need the functions in these programs to access that va
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> It makes sense though.
> "Import" imports values, not variables.
Python doesn't _have_ variables. Python has names and objects.
http://python.net/~mwh/hacks/objectthink.html
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ement (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343/ ).
> get_file = raw_input("Which file would you like to browse ?")
Presumably this line should be under your `if __name__ ==
"__main__":`? And you're not actually doing anything with `get_file`
after you obtain it from the user...
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9, in tst
> s = sign(x)
> NameError: global name 'sign' is not defined
>
>
> Do you have any idea why is this happening?
There is no built-in sign() function in Python. It must be coming from
some library that you imported. You need to add that import to pp.py
s
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> By the way, in mathematics, ≡ normally means "is equivalent to", which is
> not quite the same as "identical to".
That's perhaps because, in mathematics, nobody would even think of
asking if this 4 is the same as that 4. What sort of quest
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Frank Miles wrote:
> I have an exceedingly simple function that does a "named import".
> It works perfectly for one file "r"- and fails for the second "x".
>
> If I reverse the order of being called, it is still "x" that fails,
> and "r" still succeeds.
>
> os.acc
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Adam Skutt wrote:
> On Apr 25, 8:01 pm, Steven D'Aprano [email protected]> wrote:
>> 2) The "is" operator always has the exact same semantics and cannot be
>> overridden. The id() function can be monkey-patched.
>
> I can't see how that's useful at a
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> This assumes that everything is, internally, an object. In CPython,
> that's the case, because Python is a naive interpreter and everything,
> including numbers, is "boxed". That's not true of PyPy or Shed Skin.
> So does "is" have to force
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Adam Skutt wrote:
> Would you call the result of casting a C pointer to an int an
> address? If so, you must call the result of id() an address as well--
> you can't dereference either of them. If not, then you need to
> provide an alternate name for the result o
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Robert Kern wrote:
> Yes. Win64 has 64-bit pointers and 32-bit C longs (and thus 32-bit Python
> ints).
>
> It returns a Python long.
Ah, that solves that one. Definite improvement in Python 3 with the
merging of the two types, though. Machine integers are simply
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Adam Skutt wrote:
> C# and Python do have a misfeature: '==' is identity comparison only
> if operator== / __eq__ is not overloaded. Identity comparison and
> value comparison are disjoint operations, so it's entirely
> inappropriate to combine them.
So what sho
> for a in iterable:
> if not a:
> break
> x.append(a)
Someone borrowed Guido's time machine:
http://docs.python.org/library/itertools.html#itertools.takewhile
Cheers,
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
>
> I'm not seriously suggesting this as a language addition, just an interesting
> idea to simplify some code I'm writing now:
>
> x = [a for a in iterable while a]
>
> which equates to:
>
> x = []
> for a in iterable:
> if not a:
> br
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Peter Faulks wrote:
> I want to extend an embedded interpreter so that calls to print() are
> automagically sent to a C++ gui (windows exe) via a callback function in the
> DLL.
>
> Then I'll be able to do this:
>
> test.py
> import printoverload
>
> printo
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Peter Faulks wrote:
> Cheers,
>
> Yes was aware this would (might) be possible in 3.x only.
>
> "All you have to do is assign to print". Sounds great! Can some kind soul
> hit me with a clue stick? Were do I look in the API?
(We prefer to avoid top-posting on this
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> I'm not sure precisely what you mean by "temporary object", so I am
> taking it to mean an object that is referenced only by the VM stack
> (or something equivalent for other implementations).
>
> In that case: no, you can't. Take "f() is g()",
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> You can't check ref counts at parse time.
I know, and it'd be impossible to recognize at parse time for any but
the most trivial cases (since names can always be rebound). The
detection of temporaries can only be done at run time.
ChrisA
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:16:10 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote:
>
>> On Apr 26, 7:33 pm, Steven D'Aprano > [email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:22:55 -0700, Adam Skutt wrote:
>>> > I often wonder what the world would be
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Miles Rout wrote:
> We have if inside list comprehensions? I didn't know that, could you provide
> an example?
You mean like:
[x*2+1 for x in range(10) if x%3]
?
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Tim Wintle wrote:
> Or like:
>
print [ 0 if b%2==1 else 1 for b in range(10)]
> [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0]
That's nothing to do with the list comp, that's just the expression-if
syntax that you can use anywhere.
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> Conceptually, NaN is the class of all elements which are not numbers,
> therefore NaN = NaN. The conceptually correct way would be to check for
> 'NaN' explicitly.
Conceptually, "single-digit-numbers" is the class of all elements
which are integer
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:17 PM, John O'Hagan wrote:
> results = [x = expensive_call(i) for i in iterable if condition(x)]
Nest it:
results = [x for x in (expensive_call(i) for i in iterable) if condition(x)]
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Adam Skutt wrote:
> I think you misunderstood me. Define a Borg class where somehow
> identity is the same for all instances. Inherit from that class and
> add per-instance members. Now, identity can't be the same for all
> instances. As a result, you've just v
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Adam Skutt wrote:
> Yes, there is a way. You add a function deref() to the language. In
> CPython, that simply treats the passed value as a memory address and
> treats it as an object, perhaps with an optional check. In Jython,
> it'd access a global table of nu
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 1:35 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> On CentOS, "getaddrinfo()" at the
> glibc level doesn't always cache locally (ref
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=576801). Python
> doesn't cache either.
How do you manage your local cache? The Python getaddrinfo function
doesn't
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> Your problem is that you think that copy semantics requires real copying. I
> really don't see any technical difficulty in virtualizing the all thing.
"Copy semantics" without "real copying" is an optimization that a
program should never need to be
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Danyel Lawson wrote:
> The DNS lookup is one of those things that may make sense to run as a
> separate daemon process that listens on a socket.
Yeah, it does. One that listens on port 53, TCP and UDP, perhaps. :)
You've just recommended installing a separate ca
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Danyel Lawson wrote:
> I'm glad I thought of it. ;) But the trick is to use port 5353 and set
> a really short timeout on responses in the config for the DNS cache.
I don't think false timeouts are any better than true ones, if you
actually know the true ones. Bu
#set-types-set-frozenset:
> Since it is mutable, it has no hash value and cannot be used as either a
> dictionary key or as an element of another set.
>
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Temia Eszteri wrote:
> And what does this have to do with a multiplatform language like
> Python? :P
Nothing. Xah Lee is a professional troll. You can save yourself some
trouble by ignoring his posts altogether.
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:45 AM, kenk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a server process written in C++ running on Unix machine.
> On the same box I'd like to run multiple Python scripts that will
> communicate with this server.
>
> Can you please suggest what would be best was to achieve this ?
Persona
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 29Apr2012 11:42, Chris Angelico wrote:
> | Personally, I would recommend a TCP socket, because that allows the
> | flexibility of splitting across multiple computers.
>
> And the pain of ensuring security, if you'r
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote:
> What do you want done if one file has fewer records than the other?
The OP did state that the files had the same number of rows. I'd say
this issue is outside the scope of the question.
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gt; TypeError: 'module' object is not callable
>>>>
> What is it wrong?
Presumably, at some point you did:
import string
str = string
Or similar, thus shadowing the built-in type. As I said, there's no
need to `import string`, and the `str` type is built-in, s
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jason Earl wrote:
> It is considerably worse than that. If you look at what the
> documentation for apt-get actually says, instead of just the badly
> mangled version that Xah shares you would realize that the post was
> basically a bald-face troll.
Not only tha
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
> jason, are you trolling me, or me you?
Am I Turing dreaming I am a machine, or a machine dreaming I am Turing?
Personally, I've never Turred.
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t
finishes with a newline or '\n'. You'll find information on how to
suppress that here:
http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#the-print-statement
Hope that helps!
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script would use the following modules:
http://docs.python.org/library/shutil.html
http://docs.python.org/library/os.path.html
Cheers,
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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Peter Otten <[email protected]> wrote:
> In that spirit I'd like to make an alternative offer: put some effort into
> the job yourself, write a solution in bash and post it here. I (or someone
> else) will then help you translate it into basic Python. That will typica
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> "Most Pythonic" doesn't mean better, unfortunately.
>
> For instance, assume that you want to write a function that accepts a
> dictionary of callbacks:
> func(some_args, callbacks)
>
> Pythonic way
>
>
> def when_odd(n):
> pass
>
>
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> So in this case, even though Python is slightly more verbose, and forces
> you to have the discipline of writing named functions ahead of time, this
> is actually a *good* thing because it encourages you to test them.
>
> If the callbacks ar
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Debashish Saha wrote:
> can anyone say me how to subscribe linux mailing list like 'python
> mailing list'. Actually i want to post question there.
Search the web, you'll find something.
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docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior :
"%p -- Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM."
So, strftime("%A %p, %B %d").
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:31 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> He may be smart but obviously hasn't figured out this yet: positive aura
> drives more people and more permamently towards you.
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, but who wants to catch flies?
I don't see much value in Xah Lee'
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Chrishelring
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I´ve got some tables with column names in lowercase. Before updatering these
> tables I want to add a trigger that can convert these lowercase to
> uppercase, and when the tables are updates convert them back to lowercase..
Not entire
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Chrishelring
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I´ve got some tables with column names in lowercase. Before updatering these
>> tables I want to add a trigger that can convert these lower
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:51 PM, J. Mwebaze wrote:
> I have multiple objects, where any of them can serve my purpose.. However
> some objects might not have some dependencies. I can not tell before hand if
> the all the dependencies exsit. What i want to is begin processing from the
> 1st object,
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
>> > I have multiple objects, where any of them can serve my purpose..
>> However
>> > some objects might not have some dependencies. I can not tell before
>> hand if
>> > the all the dependencies exsit. What i want to is begin processing from
>
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> I think you can catch more girls with honey and I'm not sure if I'd like
> to catch those who prefer vinegar. I think we can make it into some kind
> of law, say Angelico-Rola Law (of girlscatching), ok?
>
> "One cannot catch a girl on honey wit
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Others who have crossed this list appear to have aspergers or autism
> too, such as Ranting Rick. He pops up occasionally, posts quite
> normally and even helpfully, and then lapses back into periods of
> ranting about how he can fix python
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Laurent Pointal wrote:
> If you have it as a string, you can use eval() (not safe!) on the string to
> retrieve the tuple, then list() on the tuple to get a list.
Are you saying that eval is not safe (which it isn't), or that it has
to be eval() and not safe_eval()
I'm a long-time user of the pyPdf library, but now I'm having to work with
bigger volumes -- larger PDFs and thousands of them at a shot. So performance
is starting to become a problem.
Does anyone know of an analogue to pyPdf that is faster? (Maybe something
based on C with Python bindings?
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:44 PM, alex23 wrote:
> On May 4, 2:17 am, Kiuhnm wrote:
>> I would've come up with something even better if only Python wasn't so rigid.
>
> The inability for people to add 6 billion mini-DSLs to solve any
> stupid problem _is a good thing_. It makes Python consistent an
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Thanks. This is what I'm looking for. I think that this should be
> added to the python document as a manifestation (but nonnormalized) of
> what "A set object is an unordered collection of distinct hashable
> objects" means.
There are other things
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Kiuhnm
wrote:
> If I and my group of programmers devised a good and concise syntax and
> semantics to describe some applicative domain, then we would want to
> translate that into the language we use.
> Unfortunately, Python doesn't let you do that.
No, this is not
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Chris
On 03/05/2012 22:13, Preeti Bhattad wrote:
Hi there,
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On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> I agree that people have different opinions on issues like this. But I
> think that "The Customer Is God". Readers of the doc is the customers,
> the writers of the doc is the producers. The opinion of customers
> should carry more weight than produ
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:12 PM, J. Mwebaze wrote:
> This is out of curiosity, i know this can be done with python diffllib
> module, but been figuring out how to compute the delta, Consider two lists
> below.
>
> s1 = ['e', 'f', 'g', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'C']
> s2 =['e', 'A', 'B', 'f', 'g', 'C', '
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Bob Cowdery wrote:
> The time.clock() function does increment correctly. CPU is around 30%
30% of how many cores? If that's a quad-core processor, that could
indicate one core completely pegged plus a little usage elsewhere.
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On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Bob Cowdery wrote:
> On 05/05/2012 23:05, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> Thought #1: you are calling time.time() and haven't unfortunately
>> renamed it? (I doubt this scenario, though the lack of fractional part
>> is interesting.)
> Not sure what you mean by renamed it
pen(filename.strip('.txt')+ '.sorted', 'wb') as p:
strip() doesn't do quite what you think it does:
$ python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jul 31 2011, 19:30:53)
>>> '.xtx.foo'.strip('.txt')
'foo'
>>>
Consult the docs.
Also, please avoid top-posting in the future.
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t by append(), one
> item at a time. That should have runtime cost of the square of the list
> length, 1172026 * 1172026. Though I've just done this:
Er, what? list.append() is O(1) amortized.
Perhaps you're confusing list.append() with list.insert(), which is indeed O(n)?
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I didn't mean per .append() call (which I'd expect to be O(n) for large
> n), I meant overall for the completed list.
>
> Don't the realloc()s make it O(n^2) overall for large n? The list
> must get copied when the underlying space fills. I
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Nikhil Verma wrote:
> mydict = {'a':'apple' , 'b':'boy' ,'c' : 'cat', 'd':'duck','e':'egg'}
>
> Now if i do :-
>
> mydict.get('a')
> 'apple'
>
> What i want is some i pass keys in get and in return i should have all the
> values of those keys which i pass.
>
> #
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Albert wrote:
> I have a small text based python program that I want to make available
> to people who might be behind a firewall or can't install python on
> their office computers, but can access the internet. It is just an
> algorithm that makes a handful of str
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