Re: [Tutor] Reading/dealing/matching with truly huge (ascii) files

2012-02-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 24/02/12 05:11, Elaina Ann Hyde wrote: Ok, if I use awk I seperate the file into an edible 240MB chunk, Why awk? Python is nearly always faster than awk... Even nawk or gawk. awk is a great language but I rarely use it nowadays other than for one liners because perl/python/ruby are all gene

Re: [Tutor] Reading/dealing/matching with truly huge (ascii) files

2012-02-23 Thread Asokan Pichai
Did you try loadtxt() from numpy? http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2010-August/026431.html the poster above notes that 2.5 million lines and 10 columns takes 3 minutes to load. Asokan Pichai ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubsc

Re: [Tutor] Reading/dealing/matching with truly huge (ascii) files

2012-02-23 Thread Elaina Ann Hyde
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 23/02/12 01:55, Elaina Ann Hyde wrote: > ns/7.2/lib/python2.7/site-**packages/asciitable-0.8.0-py2.**7.egg/asciitable/core.py", > > >> line 158, in get_lines >> lines = table.splitlines() >> MemoryError >> -- >> So thi

Re: [Tutor] how to uninstall distutils?

2012-02-23 Thread Comer Duncan
Wow, I screwed up. I meant docutils rather than distutils !! Sorry for the crazy fingers. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Comer Duncan wrote: > Hi, > > I have distutils 0.9 install under Python 2.7. I want to uninstall it. >  I am on a Macbook pro running Lion. The site-packages directory is i

[Tutor] how to uninstall distutils?

2012-02-23 Thread Comer Duncan
Hi, I have distutils 0.9 install under Python 2.7. I want to uninstall it. I am on a Macbook pro running Lion. The site-packages directory is in /Lib/Python/2.7/site-packages. There distutils exists along with a lot of other stuff I have installed. I do not have pip installed and in fact insta

Re: [Tutor] Solve wave equation

2012-02-23 Thread Evert Rol
> OK so I can solve the equation but now I am having trouble plotting the > solution! I would like to produce a surface plot with colors defined by p and > animate it. That is plot the value of p at all x and z, over time (t). My > code to get p is below but I really have no idea how to plot th

Re: [Tutor] Solve wave equation

2012-02-23 Thread David Craig
OK so I can solve the equation but now I am having trouble plotting the solution! I would like to produce a surface plot with colors defined by p and animate it. That is plot the value of p at all x and z, over time (t). My code to get p is below but I really have no idea how to plot this. Any

Re: [Tutor] Writing to a file/changing the file name

2012-02-23 Thread bob gailer
On 2/23/2012 12:04 AM, Michael Lewis wrote: Hi everyone, I have a program where I open a file (recipe.txt), I read that file and write it to another file. I am doing some multiplying of numbers in between; however, my question is, when I name the file I am writing to, the file extension is ch

Re: [Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 23/02/2012 15:23, Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: On 23/02/2012 02:00, Tamar Osher wrote: Hi. I am still having trouble installing and using Python on my (new) Windows 7 computer, but I plan to contact Microsoft forums and see if they can help me, since this is a Windows problem and not a Python probl

Re: [Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

2012-02-23 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
On 23/02/2012 16:46, Dave Angel wrote: I'm not running Windows any more (except in a VirtualBox), but your batch files could be improved: Since you only have the one useful line in the batch file, just put the @ on that line; no need to turn off echo for the whole file, when the file is one

Re: [Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

2012-02-23 Thread Dave Angel
On 02/23/2012 10:23 AM, Jugurtha Hadjar wrote: One last point: Having two versions of Python, here's what I did in order to chose which version is used depending what I'm doing (If I'm tinkering with Numpy, I must use Python26) Python 2.6 is installed in C:\Python26 Python 3.2 is installed

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-23 Thread Saad Javed
Sorry for the formatting. Added return statements to both functions. Adding return [x, y] to get_value func. That solved the problem. Thank you! :) Saad On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 23/02/12 00:59, Saad Javed wrote: > > [CODE]feed = urllib.urlopen(rssPage) #rssPage: ad

Re: [Tutor] Solve wave equation

2012-02-23 Thread David Craig
Hooray it works, thanks On 02/23/2012 01:39 PM, Ken Oliver wrote: Do you really want dt = 1**-4 or would 10**-4 be better -Original Message- From: David Craig Sent: Feb 23, 2012 7:57 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Solve wave equation Hi, I am trying to write some code that w

Re: [Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

2012-02-23 Thread Jugurtha Hadjar
On 23/02/2012 02:00, Tamar Osher wrote: Hi. I am still having trouble installing and using Python on my (new) Windows 7 computer, but I plan to contact Microsoft forums and see if they can help me, since this is a Windows problem and not a Python problem. My question: For the future, what typ

Re: [Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

2012-02-23 Thread Tim Golden
On 23/02/2012 09:00, Alan Gauld wrote: By no means, one of Pythons strengths is that the same code can run on many OS. But as Steven has mentioned many developers use Linux because GNU/Linux is designed as a developer's OS and comes with oodles of tools. Most of those are available for Windows to

Re: [Tutor] Solve wave equation

2012-02-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
David Craig wrote: Hi, I am trying to write some code that will solve the 2D wave equation by the finite difference method, but it just returns an array full of zeros and NaN's. Not sure where I am going wrong, the code is attached so if could someone point me in the right direction I'd apprec

[Tutor] Solve wave equation

2012-02-23 Thread David Craig
Hi, I am trying to write some code that will solve the 2D wave equation by the finite difference method, but it just returns an array full of zeros and NaN's. Not sure where I am going wrong, the code is attached so if could someone point me in the right direction I'd appreciate this. Thanks D

Re: [Tutor] Reading/dealing/matching with truly huge (ascii) files

2012-02-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 23/02/12 01:55, Elaina Ann Hyde wrote: ns/7.2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/asciitable-0.8.0-py2.7.egg/asciitable/core.py", line 158, in get_lines lines = table.splitlines() MemoryError -- So this means I don't have enough memory to run through the large file? Probab

Re: [Tutor] Which computer operating system is best for Python developers?

2012-02-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 23/02/12 01:00, Tamar Osher wrote: Hi. I am still having trouble installing and using Python on my (new) Windows 7 computer, but I plan to contact Microsoft forums and see if they can help me, since this is a Windows problem and not a Python problem. I doubt if you have any big issues. You p

Re: [Tutor] help writing functions

2012-02-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 23/02/12 00:59, Saad Javed wrote: [CODE]feed = urllib.urlopen(rssPage) #rssPage: address of xml feed tree = etree.parse(feed) x = tree.xpath("/rss/channel/item/title/text()") x = str(x[0]) for tag in tags: #tags is a list of items like hdtv, xvid, 720p etc x = re.sub(r'\b' + tag + r'\b', '',

Re: [Tutor] Reading/dealing/matching with truly huge (ascii) files

2012-02-23 Thread Peter Otten
Elaina Ann Hyde wrote: > Thanks for all the helpful hints, I really like the idea of using > distances > instead of a limit. Walter was right that the 'i !=j' condition was > causing problems. I think that Alan and Steven's use of the index > separately was great as it makes this much easier to