Re: A QFB agent: how to catch C-level crashes and last Python stack ?

2006-04-29 Thread robert
Thomas Heller wrote: > robert wrote: > >> When employing complex UI libs (wx, win32ui, ..) and other extension >> libs, nice "only Python stack traces" remain a myth. >> >> Currently I'm hunting again a rare C-level crash bug of a Python based >

Re: Simple DAV server?

2006-04-29 Thread robert
properties. Windows for example stores (original) file time stamps in such properties. Started writing on that, yet not complete - little complex. Properties to go to a ".##dav" folder (copied and moved together with the objects with COPY/MOVE). -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

enriching return values / symetric call&return in P3K ? - Re: Tuple assignment and generators?

2006-05-05 Thread robert
alues (both positional and by name) in Python3000 - maybe by making calling and returning almost symetric! Yet, this ideas maybe strange ? ... def f_P3K(*args,**kwargs): xreturn((7,8), 3, extra=5, *args, **kwargs) # first is main v = f_P3K()# (7,8) v,x = f_P3K() # (7,8),3 v,x,*pret,**kwret= f_P3K() extra=kwret.get('extra',-1) -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

SystemError: ... cellobject.c:22: bad argument to internal ?

2006-05-13 Thread robert
reaks with systemerror schedule_callback(c) # -> upon Windows WM_TIMER event ... Will there be another bug-fix release of Python 2.3 ? -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SystemError: ... cellobject.c:22: bad argument to internal ?

2006-05-16 Thread robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > robert wrote: > >>From the trace of a 2.3.5 software i got: >> >>\'SystemError: >>C:sfpythondist23srcObjectscellobject.c:22: bad >>argument to internal >>function\\n\'] > > > ..

Re: Simple DAV server?

2006-05-20 Thread robert
and frustrated. I hate being forced to deal with proprietary > software.) > The Windows Web Folder mapping service is also "proprietary" : MS It can't handle HTTPS in XP so far. That HTTPS example on this page is from a Mac. -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to clear up a List in python?

2006-05-25 Thread robert
0] # keep max. last 1000 appended items in the list list1[:]=replace_list ... -robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

string split without consumption

2008-02-02 Thread robert
27;(?m)\Z',ss) ['owi\nweoifj\nfheu\n'] >>> re.split(r'(?m)\A',ss) ['owi\nweoifj\nfheu\n'] >>> re.split(r'(?s)\A',ss) ['owi\nweoifj\nfheu\n'] >>> re.split(r'(?s)(?m)\A',ss) ['owi\nweoifj\nfheu\n'] >>> how to do? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: string split without consumption

2008-02-02 Thread robert
#x27;, 'xx'] is consistent in that regard: there is always a last empty or half line, which can be fed readily as start to the further input buffering. With the .splitlines(True/False) results you need to fiddle, test the last result's last char... Or you fail altogether with False. So I'd call this a "wrong" implementation. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: string split without consumption

2008-02-02 Thread robert
ssing algorithm - the further buffering. Compare e.g. >> ss.split('\n') .. > > well, one can do > > >>> [line + '\n' for line in ss.splitlines()] > ['owi\n', 'eoifj\n', 'heu\n'] > >>> [line + '\n' for line in (ss+'xxx').splitlines()] > ['owi\n', 'eoifj\n', 'heu\n', 'xxx\n'] > > as another try for your edge case. It's understandable and > natural-looking > nice for some display purposes, but "wrong" regarding a general logic. The 'xxx' is not a complete line in the general case. Its and (open) part and should appear so. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: string split without consumption

2008-02-02 Thread robert
Jeffrey Froman wrote: > robert wrote: > >> thanks. Yet this does not work "naturally" consistent in my line >> processing algorithm - the further buffering. Compare e.g. >> ss.split('\n') .. >> >>>>> 'owi\nweoifj\nfheu\n'

Re: string split without consumption

2008-02-02 Thread robert
Steve Holden wrote: > robert wrote: > [...] >> but its also wrong regarding partial last lines. >> >> re.split obviously doesn't understand \A \Z ^ $ and also \b etc. empty >> matches. >> > [...] > Or perhaps you don't understand re? >

counting lines using fileinput module

2008-02-13 Thread Robert
I would like to count lines in a file using the fileinput module and I am getting an unusual output. -- #!/usr/bin/python import fileinput # cycle through files for line in fileinput.input(): if (fileinput.isfirstline()

Re: counting lines using fileinput module

2008-02-13 Thread Robert
On Feb 13, 8:31 pm, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 13, 6:47 pm, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I would like to count lines in a file using the fileinput module and I &g

Large file support >2/4GB ?

2008-02-25 Thread robert
Somebody who uses my app gets a error : os.stat('/path/filename') OSError: [Errno 75] Value too large for defined data type: '/path/filename' on a big file >4GB ( Python 2.4.4 / Linux ) How about that? Does Python not support large files? Or which functions do not sup

similar words index?

2009-01-06 Thread robert
how can one index (text documents) for efficient similar word search? existing modules? what principles are used by search engines therefore? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: loops

2008-10-18 Thread robert
#x27;ll usually code faster, because you don't think so much about voluptuous multimulti..possibilites, not worth the play: one-ness of mind If insistent, you could sometimes save lines like this ;-) x=1 while x<=100: print x; x+=x Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: loops

2008-10-18 Thread robert
Aaron Brady wrote: Gandalf wrote: On Oct 18, 12:39 pm, Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how can I do width python a normal for loop width tree conditions like for example : for x=1;x<=100;x+x: print x What you wrote would appear to be an infinite

Re: dumping in destructor

2008-10-20 Thread robert
(or the "second" refcount) to fall below "1 plus number of extra local refs". In case execute your obj.__deregister() or so ... Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: efficient Python object count

2008-11-07 Thread robert
ot;by hand", to remain stable. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Accessing mail box tree of Thunderbird/Seamonkey?

2009-04-05 Thread robert
Is there a API/possibilty for reading&writing (live) in the mail box tree of Thunderbird/Seamonkey with Python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Accessing mail box tree of Thunderbird/Seamonkey?

2009-04-06 Thread robert
Chris Rebert wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:04 AM, robert wrote: Is there a API/possibilty for reading&writing (live) in the mail box tree of Thunderbird/Seamonkey with Python? From what I can google, they're already in mbox format, so you can use mailbox.mbox to read/write to

Configuration files

2008-06-14 Thread Robert
What is the most Pythonic way to maintain a configuration file? Are there any libraries mimicking registry / ini file writing that many windows programming languages/environments offer? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Configuration files

2008-06-16 Thread Robert
Does ConfigParser allow writing configuration changes also? "Dennis Lee Bieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:27:19 +0200, "Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

Re: py2exe 0.6.8 released

2008-06-16 Thread Robert
be on the wx part of it all. I only have: - a python 2.5.2 install(msi) - a "wxPython2.8-win32-unicode-2.8.7.1-py25.exe" install - a "py2exe-0.6.8.win32-py2.5.exe"install. I have deleted C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wxPython because there indic

Hands-on HTML Table Parser/Matrix?

2008-07-06 Thread robert
x-access (without need for callback functions,classes.. for basic tasks)? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hands-on HTML Table Parser/Matrix?

2008-07-06 Thread robert
Tim Cook wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:40 +0200, robert wrote: Often I want to extract some web table contents. Formats are mostly static, simple text & numbers in it, other tags to be stripped off. So a simple & fast approach would be ok. What of the different modules around is m

formatting list -> comma separated

2008-07-09 Thread Robert
given d: d = ["soep", "reeds", "ook"] I want it to print like soep, reeds, ook I've come up with : print ("%s"+", %s"*(len(d)-1)) % tuple(d) but this fails for d = [] any (pythonic) options for this? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Does Python use a special home-made parser, or does it use Yacc?

2008-04-16 Thread Robert
Or some other pre-packaged parser tool? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Detecting dir (tree) changes fast?

2008-09-29 Thread robert
I want to detect changes in a directory tree fast with minimum overhead/load. In order to check the need for sync tasks at high frequency. It must not be 100% reliable (its also forced time periodic), so kind of hashing would be ok. How? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: how to validate a proxy is alive?

2006-03-10 Thread robert
s.connect(('nonexisting-proxy-server',3129)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "", line 1, in connect error: (10061, 'Connection refused') >>> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> s.co

How to best update remote compressed, encrypted archives incrementally?

2006-03-10 Thread robert
nice would be a method which can directly compare agains and update a single consistent file like ftp:///archive.zip.gpg Is something like this possible? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to best update remote compressed, encrypted archives incrementally?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:13:07 +0100, robert wrote: > > >>Hello, >> >>I want to put (incrementally) changed/new files from a big file tree >>"directly,compressed and password-only-encrypted" to a remote backup >>

"RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
(copy.deepcopy(obj),f)" ) an atomic opertion with a guarantee to not fail? Or can I only retry several times in case of RuntimeError? (which would apears to me as odd gambling; retry how often?) Robert PS: Zope dumps thread exposed data structes regularly. How does the ZODB in Zop

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
> Is a copy.deepcopy ( -> "cPickle.dump(copy.deepcopy(obj),f)" ) an > atomic opertion with a guarantee to not fail? > > Or can I only retry several times in case of RuntimeError? (which would > apears to me as odd gambling; retry how often?) For an intermediate solution, I'm playing roulette

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
robert wrote: > >> Is a copy.deepcopy ( -> "cPickle.dump(copy.deepcopy(obj),f)" ) an >> atomic opertion with a guarantee to not fail? >> >> Or can I only retry several times in case of RuntimeError? (which >> would apears to me as odd gambling;

Re: How to best update remote compressed, encrypted archives incrementally?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
speedy comparision (with 0-length files) + create encrypted archive slices for upload with iterated filenames - an external tool like "gpg -c" is necessary - extra file tree or file attribute database - unrolling status from multiple archive slices is arduous Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > Em Sáb, 2006-03-11 às 12:49 +0100, robert escreveu: > >>Meanwhile I think this is a bug of cPickle.dump: It should use .keys() >>instead of free iteration internally, when pickling elementary dicts. >>I'd file a bug if no objection. &

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
EleSSaR^ wrote: > robert si è profuso/a a scrivere su comp.lang.python tutte queste > elucubrazioni: > > [cut] > > I don't know what's your code like, but a similar error occurred in some of > my software and it was my fault indeed. I think you should eith

Re: How to best update remote compressed, encrypted archives incrementally?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:09:22 +0100, robert wrote: > > >>>Lastly, have you considered that your attempted solution is completely the >>>wrong way to solve the problem? If you explain _what_ you are wanting to >>>do, rather than _h

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed ... & Ruby

2006-03-11 Thread robert
Alex Martelli wrote: > robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > >>99.99% no. I would have to use a lock everywhere, where I add or remove >>something into a dict or list of the struct. Thats not the purpose of >>big thread locks. Such simple operations are al

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
EleSSaR^ wrote: > robert si è profuso/a a scrivere su comp.lang.python tutte queste > elucubrazioni: > > >>own deepcopy: thus, do you already know if the existing deepcopy has the >>same problem as cPickle.dump ?(as the problem araises rarely, it is >>d

Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration" ; Good atomic copy operations?

2006-03-11 Thread robert
Tim Peters wrote: > [robert] > >>... >>PS: how does ZODB work with this kind of problem? I thought is uses cPickle? > > > It does. Each thread in a ZODB application typically uses its own > connection to a database. As a result, each thread gets its own > co

Global Lock for Python Threading ? - Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed ...

2006-03-11 Thread robert
robert wrote: > > Guess it would be more wise to not expose deepcopy, cPickle.dump etc. to > this kind of RuntimeError unnecessarily. > The speed gain of the iterator-method - if any - is minor, compared to > the app crash problems, which are not easy to discover and work-aro

Pythons (undefined) Practical Atoms ? - Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed ...

2006-03-12 Thread robert
Alex Martelli wrote: > robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > >>What? When I add/del an item to a dict or list, this is not an atomic >>thread-safe operation? > > Exactly: there is no such guarantee in the Python language. > >>E.g.: >>O

Global Threading Lock 2 - Re: "RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration"..

2006-03-13 Thread robert
em for the rest of the universe ... If not, there is another bug going on. I may switch to a solution with subclassed deepcopy withough .iteritems(). But its lot of work to ensure,that it is really ok - and consumes another few megs of memory and a frequent CPU peakload. So I may leave the loop and may probably not switch at all ... Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to best update remote compressed, encrypted archives incrementally?

2006-03-13 Thread robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would rsync into a remote encrypted filesystem work for you? > the sync (selection) is custom anyway. The remote filesystem is general/unknow. FTP(S) / SFTP is the only standard given. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-15 Thread robert
is at least gc() run when all modules are pulled off at exit() ) Somehow I miss a nice standard method for using globals in an unfragmented way everywhere. What do you think? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-15 Thread robert
Xaver Hinterhuber wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I was using global variables some time ago, too. > But with the time the program simply got unmaintainable, because it is very > hard > to trace, why a global variable has some special value and not the one, you > thought i

Re: WORKAROUND & the Python GUI-lib situation ...

2006-03-15 Thread robert
in the debugger than PythonWin, no consistent Interactive Win/history, 100MB in memory, .. ). Python first should maybe have a real Python GUI toolkit and unite the OS'es directly - as good as it does for the os module ? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-15 Thread robert
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > "robert" wrote: > > >>Most variable read-s in Python anyway go to module globals - as there >>are no other kinds of namespaces except __builtins__ > > > your post made some sense until I got to this paragraph, which appear

Re: WORKAROUND & the Python GUI-lib situation ...

2006-03-15 Thread robert
y with a clean python GUI system. And soon first professional apps could be built ... the more I think about it Most effort would be to have a mature, compatible event system. wx learned it anyway from Windows (WM_ -> EVT_ ) and resembled it more on Linux, etc. That would be principally ok here too, as Windows is quite good in this (despite the rest of the OS). One could "steal" a few principles, abstract algs. and even names in less time than gluing the fragile C++. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-15 Thread robert
Alex Martelli wrote: > robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > >>( And that later scheme is fairly wonderful - compare for example the >>namespace fuzz in C/C++, Pascal, Ruby, ... where you never know which >>module file addeds what to which namespace; &g

Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-15 Thread robert
Alex Martelli wrote: > robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Using global variables in Python often raises chaos. Other languages use >>a clear prefix for globals. > > Ruby does ($ means global), but, what other languages? Perl, C, C++, > Java (taking a

A Frame-space syntax ? - Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-16 Thread robert
Alex Martelli wrote: > robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >>I think its good to leave the default global binding (that is probably >>whats Guido doesn't want to give up for good reason) > > > Then, on the principle that there should be preferably

Re: can httplib.HTTPConnection use proxy?

2006-03-16 Thread robert
JuHui wrote: > how to use httplib.HTTPConnection with http proxy? > simply connect to the proxy? - and ask using the full url and original Host: - for HTTPS do a CONNECT . Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pythonic debugging - Re: Python Debugger / IDE ??

2006-03-17 Thread robert
e' overall style is a lazy copy of C, Java "I do"-hacker history. Im curious much about their value at all. Keep it simple and let Python do. Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Frame-space syntax ? - Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-17 Thread robert
Alex Martelli wrote: > robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > >>>Not sure I entirely understand what you're proposing, but locals access >>>must remain compile-time-optimized for crucial practical reasons, so >>>"writing to locals()"

Re: can httplib.HTTPConnection use proxy?

2006-03-17 Thread robert
JuHui wrote: > sorry, would you please give a sample code? > I want to use HTTPConnection to get a html page content via a http > proxy. > thanks. > -> adam and maybe you just want plain GET/POST. use urllib >>> url='http://www.google.ca' >>> urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies={'http':'http://vs

Re: Python compiler

2006-03-18 Thread robert
Rc wrote: > "DaveM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:34:14 +0100, "Méta-MCI" >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Après, vous pourrez aussi fréquenter le newsgroup : >>> fr.comp.lang.python >>>qui a l'avantage d'être en français. >>

Re: A Frame-space syntax ? - Re: global, globals(), _global ?

2006-03-19 Thread robert
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, robert wrote: > > >>The fact is: >>* Python has that big problem with unnecessary barriers for nested frame >>access - especially painfull with callback functions where you want to >>

encode short string as filename (unix/windows)

2006-03-27 Thread robert
want to encode/decode an arbitrary short 8-bit string as save filename. is there a good already builtin encoding to do this (without too much inflation) ? or re.sub expression? or which characters are not allowed in filenames on typical OS? robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: encode short string as filename (unix/windows)

2006-03-27 Thread robert
return re.sub('[\x00"/*?:<>|+\n]',_,s) def decode_from_filename(s): def _(m): return chr(int(m.group(0)[1:],16)) return re.sub("\\+[\dA-F]{2,2}",_,s) >>> newsletter.encode_as_filename('[EMAIL PROTECTED]/\\+\n\x00:+test') '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >>> newsletter.decode_from_filename(_) '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/\\+\n\x00:+test' >>> Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: encode short string as filename (unix/windows)

2006-03-27 Thread robert
y/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp > > or http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2B853DDC > thanks. infact to avoid COMx etc. I have also to prepend and remove a char like _ on encode/decode in addition to what I just posted Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

"module pointer files" for import (now and py2.5) ?

2006-03-30 Thread robert
addition to what mere UNIX links would do, it should be consistent pythonic: such module can import neighbor modules (relatively), create the .pyc's next to the code... ) Is such stuff more easy and consistent with py2.5's relative imports? Are such module pointers maybe supported someh

HTML Parser which allows low-keyed local changes?

2010-01-31 Thread Robert
ML parser which supports tracking/writing back particular changes in a cautious way by just making local changes? or a least tracks the tag start/end positions in the file? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: HTML Parser which allows low-keyed local changes (upon serialization)

2010-02-01 Thread Robert
Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert, 31.01.2010 20:57: I tried lxml, but after walking and making changes in the element tree, I'm forced to do a full serialization of the whole document (etree.tostring(tree)) - which destroys the "human edited" format of the original HTML code.

Re: HTML Parser which allows low-keyed local changes (upon serialization)

2010-02-01 Thread Robert
Robert wrote: Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert, 31.01.2010 20:57: I tried lxml, but after walking and making changes in the element tree, I'm forced to do a full serialization of the whole document (etree.tostring(tree)) - which destroys the "human edited" format of the original HTML

Re: HTML Parser which allows low-keyed local changes (upon serialization)

2010-02-01 Thread Robert
Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert, 01.02.2010 14:36: Stefan Behnel wrote: Robert, 31.01.2010 20:57: I tried lxml, but after walking and making changes in the element tree, I'm forced to do a full serialization of the whole document (etree.tostring(tree)) - which destroys the "human edit

Re: Dreaming of new generation IDE

2010-02-03 Thread Robert
t; itself. can you sketch an example/use case more concretely? Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

(and about tests) Re: Pedantic pickling error after reload?

2010-02-26 Thread Robert
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Am 25.02.10 18:08, schrieb Robert: After (intended/controlled) reload or similar action on a module/class the pickle/cPickle.dump raises errors like pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle : it's not the same object as somemodule.SomeClass Cause in pickle.py (a

Re: (and about tests) Re: Pedantic pickling error after reload?

2010-03-02 Thread Robert
d. If you have no good code checks there is another 1.5 .. 2 x less dev speed. If you have no good test scheme there is another 1.5 .. 2 x less dev speed. If you have no good bug report scheme there is another 1.5 .. 2 x less dev speed. ... A improved reload scheme may even speed up at the center of the development wheel: iteration. I guess I underrated... Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
? And even more importanly, how will it be better in the long run? Is this just more FUD Kevin "Gates"? I am sorry, are you always an inconsiderate idiot? That is exactly what you are coming across as. -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
ost i said... """However i need to stress that my intention is towards a 100% Python GUI. Not a binding, not a wrapping (except for OS calls!) but a *real* Python GUI. The only thing that i know of at this point is pyGUI although there are probably others."""[198:203] G

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
does not matter. Tcl is too limited whereas Python and especially C are far more useful in various situations. I'll bite. Exactly how is Tcl too limited in your view? -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
y chain of how we got to where we are today. They deserve to be respected for the contributions that they have made. The question now is whether Python needs to evolve its own GUI toolset. Regards, Gerry You mean outside of wxPython or PySide/PyQt? I don't see the need really. -- R

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-30 19:46:24 -0500, rantingrick said: On Dec 30, 6:32 pm, Robert wrote: Exactly how is Tcl too limited in your view? Well Robert if have explain to you why C and Python make Tcl look limited by comparison then explaining will probably do neither of us any good. But if you think

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-30 22:06:57 -0500, rantingrick said: What is your opinion (or anyone) on wxPython? Ok, I am curious again. Have you even tried wxPython or PySide/PyQt? -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
ven as a second package). I am not sure if PySide is "that easy" but it could be. -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-30 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-30 22:28:39 -0500, rantingrick said: On Dec 30, 8:41 pm, Robert wrote: On 2010-12-30 19:46:24 -0500, rantingrick said: Just to clarify...I like Python. I am learning it at the moment. Glad to have you aboard Robert! Thanks! 3. What is your opinion of Tkinter as to it&#

Re: Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

2010-12-31 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-30 23:20:59 -0500, Steven D'Aprano said: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:04:33 -0500, Robert wrote: The second way the Tcl community irks me is the "not invented here" attitude. I like the syntax of Tcl and I like the community. They are some good folks. Try asking "I wa

Re: Python3 Web Framework

2010-12-31 Thread Robert
ant.) That is from the changes file...so they are working to fix it all. HTH -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Nagios

2010-12-31 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-31 16:52:30 -0500, Antoine Pitrou said: On 31 Dec 2010 04:20:59 GMT Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:04:33 -0500, Robert wrote: The second way the Tcl community irks me is the "not invented here" attitude. I like the syntax of Tcl and I like the comm

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2010-12-31 23:57:24 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Friday, December 31, 2010 9:56:02 PM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: It was forked to be written in Python, yes. The whole point (and it wasn't a Nagios port to Tcl) was that the Tcl community (and I like the Tcl community a lot) has a strange fix

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2011-01-01 10:34:46 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying to revinvent the wheel to (in their view

Re: Nagios

2011-01-01 Thread Robert
On 2011-01-01 10:34:46 -0500, Adam Skutt said: On Saturday, January 1, 2011 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Robert H wrote: Right, just because you say it paints me in a negative light. Look at every language out there and look within the groups. Everyone is trying to revinvent the wheel to (in their view

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-01-31 Thread Robert
very useful to newcommers and could be made even more useful however the code base is rotten! Then DO something about it and no excuses. Fork it, make it better, submit it as a replacement. -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-01-31 Thread Robert
Good luck! --Kevin I think it would be interesting as well. H, I am about to do the O'Reilly series that Steve Holden did for Python. Maybe I will take that up as a project when I get through it (or...*nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink* to Rick, help out if someone else does a fork).

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-02-01 Thread Robert
. It all starts with babysteps. At least we would be doing something. Currently we are sitting around waiting for a miracle to happen, and problems are solved by methods, not miracles! Well some changes and improvements can be made to the UI as well. Fork it and do it! -- Robert -- http://

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-02-01 Thread Robert
by G. Polo, as I remember, to replace tk widgets with the newer themed ttk widgets. It needs to be reviewed and tested. To make a big change (or proceed with any refactoring) better automated testing would be very useful. +1 for the UI update +1 for more tests -- Robert -- http://mail.python.or

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-02-02 Thread Robert
On 2011-02-02 16:11:26 -0500, Terry Reedy said: On 2/1/2011 7:46 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: On 02/01/2011 07:42 PM, Robert wrote: On 2011-02-01 10:54:26 -0500, Terry Reedy said: Perhaps, after the repository moves from svn to hg, some 'we' will. If he does not, I think I

Re: IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

2011-02-05 Thread Robert
itial push will hit both 2.7.x (I think I read it right) and 3.x lines. Going forward though we are going to focus on IDLE in the 3.x series only. There is a nice list of changes and some folks that are willing to help when the repo goes into Mercurial. -- Robert -- http://mail.python.o

Python on OSX

2011-02-21 Thread Robert
Can I install 2.7 and 3.2 side by side? -- Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Windows: open() -> "[Errno 38] Filename too long"

2009-06-24 Thread robert
When doing open/os.stat/...(dirpath+filename) and total path > 250 chars then OSError: "[Errno 38] Filename too long" is there a way to access the file without changing to that directory (its in a thread and a fast iteration of many file too) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

print u'\u2013' error on console/terminal

2009-06-25 Thread robert
>>> sys.stdout.encoding 'cp850' >>> print u'\u2013' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Python25\Lib\encodings\cp850.py", line 12, in encode return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character u'\u

Re: Using nested lists and tables

2010-10-27 Thread robert
Zeynel wrote: I am trying to make this simple app for GAE. I get a string s that user enters in a form. I append that to an empty list L = [] then I test if the last saved string is the same as the new string. If same, I write it on the same column; if not the cursor moves to next column (I was

Using re to perform grep functionality in Python

2017-03-01 Thread robert
Hi All, I'm relatively new to Python, and I am having some trouble with one of my scripts. Basically, this script connects to a server via ssh, runs Dell's omreport output, and then externally pipes it to a mail script in cron. The script uses an external call to grep via subprocess, but I woul

Re: Using re to perform grep functionality in Python

2017-03-01 Thread robert
Thanks, Chris. That was nice and easy and very simple. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: object.enable() anti-pattern

2013-05-08 Thread Robert Kern
bling it, or similar. I don't think the anti-pattern has a name, but it's opposite pattern is named: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terribl

Re: Style question -- plural of class name?

2013-05-09 Thread Robert Kern
oEntry`s But I don't mind A list of FooEntries Hopefully there isn't also a `FooEntries` class. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying tru

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