ch of smaller examples.
I'm looking for a site with this sort of information to pass along to my son
who's entering his sophomore year of college, has one Java course under his
belt, and will take a second course in the fall. I'm hoping to reach him
before his brain turns to mush.
; http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
>> http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/shapes/index.html
Thanks for the extensive list of sites!
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bearophile> transparent language, that doesn't hide me how it works
bearophile> inside.
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>>> os.path.join(dirname, "%s.%s.%s" % (h, tname, os.getpid()))
u'/tmp/\xef.MainThread.11004'
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it's likely that rewriting critical parts in C or
using packages like numpy would improve there performance with or without
multi-threading. For people who aren't used to C there are tools like Pyrex
and Cython which provide a middle road.
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* use multiple processes
* rewrite your code to use more efficient algorithms
I don't write those out of ignorance for your plight. It's just that if you
want a faster Python program today you're going to have to look elsewhere
for your
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problem (or a timeout parameter of any kind). At any rate, you'll probably
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>> internal cache maintenance or for as part of the API.
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pdpi> I'm not sure whether #2 is doable at all, as written. You _need_ a
pdpi> complete history
file
into memory. Learn to operate a line (or a few lines) at a time. Try
something like:
a = open("/home/sservice/nfbc/GenoData/CompareCalls3.diff")
for line in a:
do your per-line work here
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Nicolas> Here is the ticket:
Nicolas> https://www.logilab.net/elo/ticket/9634
Is it possible to get read-only access to the tracker? It's prompting me
for a login which I don't have.
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understand the difference between "avec malloc *int" and "avec []". Can you
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> "A list of FooEntry instances"
Besides the obvious spelling issues in the others, it's not
immediately clear if the list contains just FooEntry instances,
FooEntry classes (perhaps subclasses) or a mix of the two. #4 makes
it clear.
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> layout. But this one is absolutely right:
I think "irrelevant" in this context means stuff like memory management.
My fave was #7: "It is easier to write an incorrect program than
understand a correct one," which explains in large part why
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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:
ne weren't set on the command line.
At that point, set them to the actual defaults. I think that's a
pretty common idiom.
Note: I am an old cranky dude and still use getopt. This idiom is
pretty easy there. YMMV with argparse or optparse.
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> However, maybe I could ...
... switch to getopt?
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Perhaps you want len(reader) instead? Or a counter which increments for
every row read which has an item in column A?
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> len(reader) gives me an error.
Apologies. len(list(reader)) should work. Of course, you'll wind up
loading the entire CSV file into memory. You might want to just count
row-by-row:
n = 0
for row in reader:
n += 1
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> So rather than
>>a
>>b
>>c
>>d
>>e
>>f
> I would get [a, b, c, d, e, f]
all_items = []
for row in reader:
all_items.append(row[0])
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basically useless in Python -- you can just use a
> module function instead of a staticmethod.
That is, the "@staticmethod" decorator doesn't mean, "call this function
once."
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's format method.
You might be able to get by with a change of your LOCALE setting
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apologize for
(inadvertently) spreading FUD.
It does seem like the documentation should be updated in a few places.
If the decision has been made to not remove the older system, it
might be worthwhile to mention that somewhere. Clearly the tutorial
and PEP 3101 should be updated.
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>>>> Please stop perpetuating this myth, see
>>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116789.html
>>>> and http://bugs.python.org/issue14123
>>>>
>>> What myth?
>>
>> The myth that % string formatti
#x27;
>>> print s2.getvalue()
What is it about io.StringIO that it doesn't like strings and requires
Unicode? This is on an OpenSUSE 12.1 system. I have tried with LANG
set to the default ("en_US.UTF-8") and to "C". I also tried on a
Solaris system with an older micro revision of Python 2.7. Same
result.
Am I missing something about how io.StringIO works? I thought it was
a more-or-less drop-in replacement for StringIO.StringIO.
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am, expecting Unicode
> objects for transcription. 'str' is, in that context, probably
> considered as 'bytes' in Python 3.
>
Thanks. This example was based on a function in Matplotlib. It appears the
author switched from StringIO.StringIO to io.StringIO between 1.1
> The terror that most people feel when hearing "m4" is because m4 was
associated with sendmail, not because m4 was inherently awful.
In fact, m4 made sendmail configs easier to maintain.
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Check out the rrule module in the python-dateutil package:
http://labix.org/python-dateutil
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil
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> Did you tried running that by a standalone Python interpreter? Did you
> notice something strange, something like that an empty line is missing
> between headers and body?
He will get an extra blank line, since he added a newline character at
the end of his Content-Type string.
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spelling, and thus fail to find it. For example tcl 8.5 might be
installed as libtcl85.so, libtcl8.5.dylib, etc. I believe the modules
which failed for you are probably all named in a straightforward
fashion, so missing underlying libraries are probably the culprit.
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uild 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print
>>> x = print
File "", line 1
x = print
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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>>> int="five"
>>> [int(i) for i in ["1","2","3"]]
TypeError: str is not callable
> Now how are you going to get the original int type back?
Magic. :-)
>>> int = "five"
>>> int("a")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
>>> from __buil
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>>> import os
>>> os.putenv("PATH", "/tmp")
>>> os.system("/usr/bin/env")
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arse_requirements(requirements))
File "/opt/TWWfsw/distribute06/lib/python27/pkg_resources.py", line
584, in resolve
raise DistributionNotFound(req)
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: logilab-astroid>=0.24.3
How do I work around this problem? I'd rather be hacking on pylint
than struggling with distutils.
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When the bubbles URL fails, Chrome suggests simply databrewery.org,
which seems to work, though it has no mention of bubbles.
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Dariusz Suchojad wrote:
> On 06/23/2013 07:58 PM, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
>
>> If you have any comments, suggestions
function's namespace and modify it, you should be able
to perform the same trick for most functions or methods written in C.
>>> sys._settrace = sys.settrace
>>> def settrace(*args, **kwds):
... return sys._settrace(*args, **kwds)
...
>>> sys.settrace = sys._settrace
Totally untested. No warranties expressed or implied. YMMV... etc, etc
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Google Groups and Gmane create, this mailing list is my only exposure
to Usenet. I have no idea if periodic FAQ posting is common practice
anymore. It might be worthwhile to create one if it's kept fairly
brief and to the point.
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> Does anyone know why CPython 2.5 is a dependency for Jython 2.5.1+ on
> Debian squeeze?
Might Jython use some Python modules/packages unmodified? Does
sys.path in Jython refer to the CPython tree?
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Last I knew, Fredrik was working for Google. According to his
LinkedIn profile he's a Google employee in Zurich, apparently doing
YouTube stuff (assuming his profile is up-to-date).
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imestamps are represented as Python datetime objects, the
problem gets a bit easier, especially if you want to find the
beginning and ending timestamps of a bunch of dates. Sort, then throw
some itertools.groupby pixie dust at it. My ancient, reptilian brain
has never quite grokked all that iter
text editors probably present similar issues for
their users. They all involve:
* a lot of typing,
* use of modifier keys (ctrl, alt, command, etc)
* movement between the mouse and the keyboard
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macros are, I find it very odd that
recent versions of GNU Emacs dispensed with the old key binding to C-x
c.
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the GNU switch to kmacro, and
reasserting my preference for the way I called ediff commands meant
that the new spelling of the kmacro stuff got dropped. I do use C-x (
and C-x ) to define macros.
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print 2, output
output = []
while len(output) < 10:
r = int(round(random.random() * 500))
if r % 2:
r *= 2
output.append(r)
print 3, output
getting-tired-of-homework-questions-in-my-old-age-ly, y'rs,
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> You assume that the professor (or more likely, TA) will take the time
> to ask them to explain the program and not just grade them down for
> the extra work they had to do.
Well, that would be fine too. :-)
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> It wonder if 5-bit chars was a
> common compression scheme.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_binary_codes
Baudot was pretty common, as I recall, though ASCII and EBCDIC ruled
by the time I started punching cards.
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Yeah, based on Grant's research, I found a used PC 690-series base on
eBay for my wife for her birthday. I think she will be psyched. Lots
easier to make keyhole slots with a plunge base.
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> Python Secret Underground.
Argh! That which shall not be named! Please, for the sake of all that
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> On 10 July 2013 13:35, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>> Either that or it's funny only to other Australians.
>>
>> Or the Dutch.
>
> Or us Brits.
Hells bells... It appears everyone found it funny except the tr
> I can't help you. I'm astonished. Trying to imagine the work environment
> where this technology would be necessary
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destination). If you message was held by Mailman, moderator overload
is the most likely cause of the delay. It's also possible Mailman got
overwhelmed, but I've seen no postmaster messages suggesting there
were any systemic problems.
BTW, although SpamBayes serves as a last resort for mail arriving via
SMTP, it is the only line of defense for mail gatewayed from Usenet.
I'm sure I can dredge up the code I wrote for that if anyone wants it
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sure you haven't inadvertently done something. If the problem
persists, send a note to [email protected] describing the problem,
and include a message (with all its headers intact) that demonstrates
the problem, as Chris did with the timestamps.
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Serhiy> The string replace() method is fastest (at least in Python 3.3+). See
Serhiy> implementation of html.escape() etc.
I trust everybody knows by now that when you want to use regular
expressions you should shell out to Perl for the best performance. :-)
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; random.shuffle(words)
>>> words[0:4]
['live', 'skat', 'levy', 'cove']
>>> [makePigLatin(word) for word in words[0:4]]
['ivelay', 'atskay', 'evylay', 'ovecay']
:-)
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I use pylint all the time, and coverage from time-to-time, have used
nose in the past, but not for my current stuff. All are worth your
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> Thank you! What tool do you use for coverage?
coverage. :-)
> And have you used pychecker?
Yes, in fact, I used to use a wrapper script I wrote that ran both
pylint and pychecker, then massaged the output into
suitable-for-emacs-next-error-command
> I heard it is as good as pylint. What do yo
> Could you please elaborate on the difference of the two? I heard pylint
> does not import your source code when it is analyzing, while pychecker does.
> Does that make some difference? Moreover, do you personally like pylint or
> pycheker and why?
I haven't followed pychecker development for awh
]
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
>>> for k in list(d):
... if k == 3:
... del d[k+1]
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
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KeyError: 4
>>> d.ke
ar of books meant to be read with page or column
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ee the attached graph
for the distribution of line lengths for the current project where I
spend most of my time these days (just Python code, blank lines
elided, comment lines included). Stretching the max out to 100
columns when most lines are less than 60 columns just wastes screen
real est
ut:
>>> repr(1e+30)
'1e+30'
>>> repr(1e+99)
'9.9997e+98'
This problem was fixed in 2.7 (and presumably in 3.something as well),
but it used to be a problem. :-)
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the various documentation files in the repo related to building
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Any suggestions about how to resolve this would be appreciated.
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What method(s) does a class have to support to properly emulate a container
which supports turning it into a list? For example:
class Foo:
pass
f = Foo()
print list(f)
Is it just __iter__() and next()? (I'm still using 2.4 and 2.7.)
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> If using __getitem__ it needs to work with integers from 0 to len(f)-1,
> and raise IndexError for len(f), len(f+1), etc.
Ah, thanks. I have a __getitem__ method, but it currently doesn't raise
IndexError. (I'm indexing into a ring buffer, and the usage of the class
pretty much precludes index
27/lib/python2.7/ctypes/util.py
libm.so.6
libc.so.6
libbz2.so.1
libcrypt.so.1
On my Mac:
% python ~/src/python/release27-maint/Lib/ctypes/util.py
/usr/lib/libm.dylib
/usr/lib/libc.dylib
/usr/lib/libbz2.dylib
On Solaris:
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> After worming around distutils' inability to use
> environment variables to add command line flags to gcc, I'm stuck with
> an error trying to locate libc:
...
Should have poked around bugs.python.org first. This was reported,
with a patch that works for me: http://bugs.python.org/issue528
some questions
explore various dark corners of the language and its libraries, the
experience level runs the gamut, from people just learning the
language to core developers. So, fire away. It does help if you don't
ask us to do your homework for you. :-)
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What is a/the "a-dialect"?
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Stephen Michell
wrote:
> My apologies. I maintain that website.
>
> There should have been no broken links. I will fix that.
>
> The previous ver
These links work:
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r photos.
I put the pages up on my Google Drive. If you think you might be able to
help (and are willing :-), let me know (offline) and I'll send you the
links.
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missing some sort of nose-markdown plugin which would
magically make this work?
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I believe I figured this out. It appears to be sufficient to add
doctest-extension=md
to my noserc file.
Camping happy, am I,
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then I'd have to add a magic token to my files to tell Emacs they are
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Actually, I semi-lied. It seems to pick up the second of two examples,
and gets a bit confused about leading whitespace. I think I need to do
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which guarantees that your initialize function is called precisely
once?
This all seems rather messy. I'm open to better ways to do this, but
as I've only had one cup of coffee this morning, no spark of insight
has zapped my frontal cortex as yet.
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est. The declaration goes
> in a conftest.py file alongside your test files.
Thanks. I'm not a py.test user, but it turns out that nose (which I do
use) appears
to have something similar:
https://nose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/doc_tests/test_init_plugin/init_plugin.html
Thanks for the nudge
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Steve D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:07 am, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>> Suppose you want to test a package (in the general sense of the word,
>> not necessarily a Python package).
>
> I'm... not sure I understand. Given
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