Re: [Tutor] Python Lists--A Suggestion

2009-04-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Produce in the sense of movie producers. In any case, I mean own, host, create and control. Yes, if it's uncontrolled, then it would be difficult to find continuity. My suggestion is aimed at those who want to use graphic material to support their questions or problems. Ma

Re: [Tutor] Python Lists--A Suggestion

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Wayne Watson wrote: > Perhaps the Pyton organization could produce their mail lists, if they have > any control over them. Maybe that's the source of the inconsistency? That > is, some are not sponsored by them. I don't really know what you mean by "produce" their

Re: [Tutor] Python Logging Module

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:34 PM, wrote: > Hello everyone... > > My intention is to create a generic logging function I can use across > scripts. I have a few things I would like this function to be able to > accomplish: > > 1. log info and above to console > 2. log debug and above to file > 3. for

Re: [Tutor] Python Lists--A Suggestion

2009-04-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Perhaps the Pyton organization could produce their mail lists, if they have any control over them. Maybe that's the source of the inconsistency? That is, some are not sponsored by them. Alan Gauld wrote: "Wayne Watson" wrote  I offered in that thread that it mig

[Tutor] Python Logging Module

2009-04-07 Thread chase . mp
Hello everyone... My intention is to create a generic logging function I can use across scripts. I have a few things I would like this function to be able to accomplish: 1. log info and above to console 2. log debug and above to file 3. format the output for each differently 4. allow areas

Re: [Tutor] Please use plain text.

2009-04-07 Thread Todd Zullinger
bob gailer wrote: > Thanks for the request for clarification. By plain text I mean: > > one font and one size that is "readable". Most of the emails I > receive appear the same in font and size, so whatever that is I > like. What's readable to you may not be readable to the next person though. Mos

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > Traceback (most recent call last): > >   File "C:\Projects\unicode_convert.py", line 8, in > >     outp.write(outLine.strip()+'\n') > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position > 640-641: ordinal not in rang

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > I did get an error… > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "C:\Projects\unicode_convert.py", line 8, in > > outp.write(outLine.strip()+'\n') > > UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position >

Re: [Tutor] Python Lists--A Suggestion

2009-04-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote I offered in that thread that it might be useful to allow people to post images and videos. They can sometimes be very useful One response was that such sites are generally available. Indeed and posting big images or any size video in a mailing list would be very

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
I did get an error... Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Projects\unicode_convert.py", line 8, in outp.write(outLine.strip()+'\n') UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 640-641: ordinal not in range(128) Should I be worried about this. A

[Tutor] Python Lists--A Suggestion

2009-04-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html In mulling over some comments in the thread "Please use plain text", I have a suggestion. I offered in that thread that it might be useful to allow people to post images and videos. They can sometimes be very useful for understanding what's going on with a problem. I've ce

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > Excellent! Thanks Marc, Kent, and everyone. Marc your code worked. Now to > see if it will run on the full 4.5 GB file! : ) > Glad to help - but you should definitely take Kent's advice and replace my strip() with rstrip(). Good luck!

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
Excellent! Thanks Marc, Kent, and everyone. Marc your code worked. Now to see if it will run on the full 4.5 GB file! : ) Thanks matt Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D. Research Analyst IV Medical Services Initiative (MSI) Orange County Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Kent Johnson wrote: > You really should use rstrip(), leading white space is generally > significant in a text file, trailing white space not so much. > Good point. -- www.fsrtechnologies.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tu

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Marc Tompkins wrote: > Anyway, try this - > >> import codecs >> >> inp = codecs.open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\test20090320.txt', 'r', >> 'utf-16') >> outp = open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\new_text_file.txt', 'w') >> >> for outLine in inp: >>     outp.write(outL

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > Thanks Marc, > > > > But I think that got rid of all of my carriage returns. Everything on just > one line now. > Sorry! My bad! Try this instead: > for outLine in inp: > outp.write(outLine.strip() + '\n') > _

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
Thanks Marc, But I think that got rid of all of my carriage returns. Everything on just one line now. Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D. Research Analyst IV Medical Services Initiative (MSI) Orange County Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648 From: tutor-bounces+mpi

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > So Kent's syntax worked to convert my Unicode file to plain text. But > now my data is double space. How can I fix this. Here is the code I'm > using. > Sounds like you're being stung by the difference in newline handling between operat

Re: [Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > So Kent's syntax worked to convert my Unicode file to plain text. But > now my data is double space. How can I fix this.  Here is the code I'm > using. > > import codecs > > inp = codecs.open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\test20090320.txt'

[Tutor] why is unicode converted file double spaced?

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
So Kent's syntax worked to convert my Unicode file to plain text. But now my data is double space. How can I fix this. Here is the code I'm using. import codecs inp = codecs.open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\test20090320.txt', 'r', 'utf-16') outp = open('g:\\data\\amm\\text files\\new_text_file.t

Re: [Tutor] Please use plain text.

2009-04-07 Thread bob gailer
Todd Zullinger wrote: bob gailer wrote: Please use plain text rather than formatted text. Was sending this request in an html formatted message intentional? I don't know about most folks, but I consider plain text to mean a content-type of text/plain rather than text/html. :) Than

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
Thanks all! Kent, this syntax worked. I was able to figure it out the encoding just with trial and error. It is utf16. Now the only thing is that the conversion is double-spacing the lines of data. I'm thinking this must be something that I need to fix in my syntax. I will continue to try and figu

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Pirritano, Matthew wrote: > How can I find out the type of coding that was used to create this file? > Is there a way to do this other than just asking the person who created > it? That is possible, but I was just curious. If you can look at the data as hex value

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 62, Issue 15

2009-04-07 Thread Lazarus billa
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Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
I am using run>cmd in windows xp professional. The type command no longer seems to work on this file now that it exceeds 4GB. Only about 63000 lines are converted out of the 2 million plus. How can I find out the type of coding that was used to create this file? Is there a way to do this other th

Re: [Tutor] Please use plain text.

2009-04-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Anyhow, this discussion has gone way off topic and I suggest all to drop it as it will only lead to flame wars. Greets Sander Maybe President Obama would step in. :-) -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.01

Re: [Tutor] Please use plain text.

2009-04-07 Thread Sander Sweers
2009/4/7 Wayne Watson : > What I would consider a big difficulty with flat text is exactly that it is > flat. There are lots of times, in my experience, when a graphic, > particularly captured ones, can lead to much faster and smarter solution. I > think this list may allow them, but it seems at a

Re: [Tutor] problem in replacing regex

2009-04-07 Thread spir
[forwarded to list] Le Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:23:33 +0530, Kumar s'exprima ainsi: > Hi denis, > > Thanks a lot for the reply. > > Actually on our web application when we display the data, at that time we do > parsing and make hyperlinks (through ) wherever possible. so if there is > any url like (

Re: [Tutor] [AstroPy] numarray pdf 1.5 is broken. Using numdisplay, Python, PIL, and Tkinter

2009-04-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Thanks, but I'm not sure why people keep bringing up DS9. As I understand it, it is a stand alone program of sorts that has no interface with Python. It seems to me it would be like saying use Word or Adobe Photoshop. Stefan Schwarzburg wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at

Re: [Tutor] Please use plain text.

2009-04-07 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html What I would consider a big difficulty with flat text is exactly that it is flat. There are lots of times, in my experience, when a graphic, particularly captured ones, can lead to much faster and smarter solution. I think this list may allow them, but it seems at a delay.

Re: [Tutor] (no subject)

2009-04-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Sifis Sifakis" wrote I'm a student in Applied Informatics and i need to make a project in Python. More specificaly,i have to create a simple online bookstore using Python. We don;t do homework for you but we are happy to help with pointers and bug fixing. Could you also send me some sampl

Re: [Tutor] unicode to plain text conversion

2009-04-07 Thread Alan Gauld
"Pirritano, Matthew" wrote I am a total newbie. I have a very large file > 4GB that I need to convert from Unicode to plain text. I used to just use dos when the file was < 4GB but it no longer seems to work. Can anyone point me to some python code that might perform this function? When you s

Re: [Tutor] Please use plain text.

2009-04-07 Thread spir
Le Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:01:11 +0100, "Alan Gauld" s'exprima ainsi: > Web forums are far less useful than mailing lists for technical groups. > They require internet access and a browser to read them. > Many require a graphical browser so don't work in text mode > terminals. Very few are available