Re: [Tutor] Processing unix style timestamp

2008-03-06 Thread Ravi Kondamuru
Thanks for the replies. time.strptime() is able to parse the string if the timezone is local or GMT or UTC. Is there a file of timezones and corresponding time offsets that I can use to build the dictionary? thanks Ravi. >>> import time >>> time.strptime("Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 CST 2008", "%a %b %d

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Yes, the problem is, that these guys are anyway forced to have Python/Erlang developers on board, because of external opensource components they need to maintain. Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 23:54 + schrieb Alan Gauld: > Actually I'm with the lead here. > > The cost of developing a new fea

Re: [Tutor] Processing unix style timestamp

2008-03-06 Thread John Fouhy
On 07/03/2008, Ravi Kondamuru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a log file that prints the date and time in the following format: > Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 CST 2008 > I am expecting multiple timezone entries (eg: PST, PDT and GMT) on the > system running in America/Los Angeles time zone. > I am look

Re: [Tutor] Processing unix style timestamp

2008-03-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Ravi Kondamuru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have a log file that prints the date and time in the following > format: > Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 CST 2008 > I looked at datetime, but it seems slightly complex to work with non > GMT > timestamps. Try the basic time module. It has gmttime functions

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Alan Gauld
"Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > My experience, moving from C++ to Java to Python as the language I > use > every day at work: I did much the same journey but decided I hated Java so much I kind of bypassed it and only once used it on a real project. Instead I became an architect/desig

Re: [Tutor] Processing unix style timestamp

2008-03-06 Thread wesley chun
> I looked at datetime, but it seems slightly complex to work with non GMT > timestamps. > > Any pointers? you may also want to take a look at dateutil http://labix.org/python-dateutil i think the online docs has a section devoted to just timestamp parsing. hope this helps! -- wesley - - - - - -

[Tutor] Processing unix style timestamp

2008-03-06 Thread Ravi Kondamuru
Hi, I have a log file that prints the date and time in the following format: Mon Feb 11 01:34:52 CST 2008 I am expecting multiple timezone entries (eg: PST, PDT and GMT) on the system running in America/Los Angeles time zone. I am looking for a way to internally store all the different timezone en

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Alan Gauld
> In commercial practice sometimes "political" considerations make for > crazy decisions, e.g. witnessed by me: > 1.) a new web service needs to be developed. > 2.) the policy of the company is that all developers need to know C ++/Java. > snipped... desire to use Python/Erlang > 5.) The project l

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Alan Gauld
> Now coming back to your question, that you want a non-changeable > name, > well, one can create such a beast, e.g.: > > def constant(value): > ... >class Test(object): > const_a = constant(123) > This creates a member that can only be fetched, but not set or > deleted. Only within constant

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Michael Langford
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Tiago Katcipis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Saddly the lab where i > work only develops on c++ for now... but everything that i can choose i will > develop with python, This is not an insurmountable problem. There are various technologies which allow you to use C++

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Tiago Katcipis
so far im starting to feel all what you have said. Im using python to implement some works on university and im felling that everything is high level, easy to use, and far easier than c++ and even java. java is less complicated than c++ but cant be compared with the simplicity of python code. And t

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 08:35 -0500 schrieb Kent Johnson: > C++ is extremely complex. The good side of this is it gives you > tremendous control - final, const, pass by reference or value, memory > allocation, etc, etc. The bad side is that it is a lot to think about - > should this para

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
Well, as a philosophical argument, the public/private classification is broken by design. Why? Assuming that one considers the "protection" part as useful (which experience with dynamic languages like Python suggest is not axiomatic), because it forces you to map all roles of a given class to a f

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Kent Johnson
Tiago Katcipis wrote: > thanks for the help Andreas, i dont really need that much a const so i > wont do anything like that to have a const like data. I am very used to > java and c++, thats why i always used acess modifier, but i think i can > live without it now i know that it dont exist in py

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Tiago Katcipis
thanks for the help Andreas, i dont really need that much a const so i wont do anything like that to have a const like data. I am very used to java and c++, thats why i always used acess modifier, but i think i can live without it now i know that it dont exist in python :P. On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 a

Re: [Tutor] Const on Python

2008-03-06 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
The answer is slightly more complex. 1.) objects are either mutable or immutable. E.g. tuples and strings are per definition immutable and "constant". Lists and dictionaries are an example of the mutable kind. 2.) "variables", "instance members" are all only references to objects. Examples: # l