aintenance/testing/reuse that much harder,
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s a package for older pythons.
Berkeley DB is pretty much interchangeable with SQLite in terms of
functionality. I much prefer SQLite. If your web application intends
to have multiple users interacting with the same data, neither is
probably a go
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Goal : I am trying to parse a ginormous ( ~ 1gb) xml file.
>
> I sympathize with you. I wonder who thought that building a 1GB XML file was
> a good thing.
XML is like violence: if it isn't working, try more.
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usage I've encountered.
As to the original post: Yes, as others have suggested you're going to
want an event-based parser along the lines of SAX. Sadly (for you)
this means a mental shift in how you address your code, but it's not
terrible - just different.
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environment perfectly tailored
(yay for virtualenv) I'll have a screen session manage the entire
thing until the project is done, just reconnecting to it when I'm
working on it. I highly recommend both screen and virtualenv to
anyone that is unfamiliar with them.
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years, Python may or may not be the best choice depending on your
field. If you want a useful tool that will improve your understanding
of other tools in addition to being useful in its own right, Python is
absolutely a good choice.
All that said, I doubt you'll find many Python Nay
e
without hoop-jumping?
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of the languages I'm using, and
Python appears to use camelCase more than not.
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off not using a regex and just using a string
operation.
Regexes are great for trying to do powerful and complicated things -
and as such may be too complicated if you're trying to do a simple
thing.
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htly different Regex pattern. .*dex.* would
match both lines.
You'll need to be more specific when you say "the word dex" to
determine your regex.
\sdex\s will match dex surrounded by whitespace, which might be what you want.
\bdex\b will match dex surrounded by word boundaries,
to know of some other way to obtain it for less than $45?
Half.com is always my stop of choice for programming books. I see a
copy there for $16.
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end the attempt, but for #2 I
recommend small games. A blackjack game or a computer that can play
tic-tac-toe with you are great ways to work on a well-defined problem
that won't take forever.
Once you feel sufficiently confident, helping on an open source
project as others suggest is a great way.
do it in
seconds and a bad program would take hours (if it didn't run out of
memory first).
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motivation need not be obfuscation. I myself
like to package standalone programs for non-techie friends and family
to use. For them, "Run this" is a good first instruction versus
"Install Python..." (regardless of how much their lives might be
improved by the latter :) )
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t;> a = [1,2,3]
>>> b = a
>>> a = []
>>> print a
[]
>>> print b
[1, 2, 3]
Versus:
>>> a = [1,2,3]
>>> b = a
>>> a[:] = []
>>> print a
[]
>>> print b
[]
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itism for existing.
(*steps off soapbox*). You can google "Eternal September" for more on
that general topic.
TL;DR Version: Yes, that's perfectly acceptable. *bites tongue to
resist going off on a rant about TL;DR*
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d you pls provide the link. tq
To all: The link is in the subject line: http://learnpython.org
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* Give a clear question to answer.
If you haven't gotten this from someone else, then consider this that
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files, raw HTML files, etc).
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nize that your backslash is an actual real
backslash you can escape it:
scandir('c:\\tmp')
After that your code should work fine (it runs on my system, but I'm
not on windows).
This filepath issue has many details you can look up or ask about, b
b-based application, I'd start by googling TkInter and going from
there. There are alternatives, but that's well-supported and widely
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r any problem it's limited in scope rather
than trying to take it all in at once.
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On Friday, May 13, 2011, Rayon wrote:
> Hi all, I need a python script to upload a xml file to a web page using
> python. I have tried using pycurl but I am still getting
Fyi, the XML spec allows for no characters or whitespace before the
XML declaration, that could be your error,
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> I am trying to upload a xml file via pycurl, I really need some help here.
What is the error your are receiving? Did you fix the fact that you
had starting whitespace as I mentioned to your last email?
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: Stacked patterns without
understanding the purpose, premature and excessive abstraction,
elimination of verbs, and horrendous naming habits. I'm curious to
see if any of these habits change if/when Java adds functions as
first-class objects.
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the first warning/error
message page and not the redirection one.")
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our chances are up!")
You want this to occur when your chances are up, right? So why is it
_inside_ the while loop?
Your basic approach is fine, you just have some extra stuff going on
unnecessarily and I'm guessing it's confused you as to your logic.
Give it another shot and let us know how it goes.
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u'll just want to use a format to output the
number and you'll see exactly what you expect. It only becomes a
problem in high-precision areas, which 0.1 increments don't tend to
be.
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for such templates.
This is assuming that you generate the HTML in the first place instead
of trying to edit someone elses existing HTML. In that case you'd
proceed as you described.
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> fine with me.
I've had this as well, and as Steven says, it only occurs with a
partiuclar recipient. If you send to the list only (or in fact anyone
other than that person), you'll not receive this.
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Which is correct. To set one value based on another they must be set
separately.
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t that's the source
of your issue.
To achieve what you are trying, try this instead:
d = dict([(x,[0]) for x in ['a', 'q', 'c', 'b', 'e', 'd', 'g', 'j']])
Can you understand how this behaves differently than 8
is nothing of concern here.
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will use a different print syntax
class Name:
pass
instance = Name()
instance.man = "Fred"
print instance.man
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't competent enough on the subject to give proper feedback. :)
Are you looking for distutils advice, or .deb advice? They are pretty
different.
How are you expecting your users to install your package? Via
easy_install? Apt-get? Something else?
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wrote:
> Hi Python tutor listers, as an intro I'll repost what I sent to my
> Linux groups, since one of their members turned me on to you:
Glad you're so happy with this book...did you have a question for this list?
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to get
multiple arguments:
>>> b = iter(a) #our original iterator is spent, so we're assigning a new one
>>> c = [b,b]
>>> zip(c) #Not flattened, is just a single list, like a.
[(,), (,)]
>>> zip(b,b) # here it is two iterators sent to zip() (though they happen to
>>> be the SAME iterator)
[('a', '1'), ('b', '2'), ('c', '3')]
I hope some of you enjoy playing with this, and hopefully someone
learned something useful! While I'm not likely to use the listed
form, I can very well see myself saying:
>>> a = ['a','1','b','2','c','3'] #well, I can see myself using this with
>>> meaningful variable names
>>> b = iter(a)
>>> zip(b,b) # Group in sets of 2 elements
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ndler will let me write to filenames based on
date, but it won't alter the path (in fact, the entire logging module
seems to be built on the assumption of no subdirectories). Have I
missed something?
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When using the interactive mode, the program that creates that mode
prints the return. When you are using it your program, the caller
decides what to do.
The flip side is that printing a value does NOT return it.
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quot;hello" but does not match RE "^hello".
In addition to the other answers, it's important to note that nothing
in these REs require it to be a "word". So both of the above will
match the "hello" in "hellonwheels" for example.
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ok list comprehensions
* I understand generators
* I understand decorators
(where understand is more than "can use")
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Python2 - most major projects haven't
made the switch and I'd expect another year or two before they do so.
Many tutorials and examples are Python 2-based and there are not that
many differences to unlearn in terms of habits.
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le of wrapping
everything everywhere (be that good or bad).
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. The game would then replay the
sequence and add an additional step. Player would have to enter the
longer sequence in. Continue until player loses (and game made an
angry buzz).
It was quite addictive.
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hat most digits are painful to use as divisors in base 2 (binary)
except for 1,2,4, 8, or other powers of 2.)
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ral discussions of variables in research rather
than studies about programming variable names (my google-fu is weak)
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> linelist=lines.split('\t')
> Key=linelist[0]
> ValCity=(linelist[12]).strip()
> ValState=linelist[13]
> ValOne=linelist[2]
> ValTwo=linelist[6]
> ValThree=boolean(linelist[7])
> D={Key:(ValOne, ValTwo, ValThree, ValCity,ValState)}
>
FYI - Gmail's new "compose" feature makes it WAY too easy to miss
trimming the quotes. :(
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(way too much)
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or wrong) for, and the constraints placed on it
(just to keep you from getting lost in unfamiliar syntax) make it a mental
challenge for us because our first approach is disallowed.
Don't be disheartened at the difficulty, and don't fear it being this hard
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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Ed Owens wrote:
> >>> str(string)
> '[\nUpdated: Dec 5, 2012, 5:08pm EST\n]'
> >>> m = re.search('":\b(\w+\s+\d+,\s+\**d+,\s+\d+:\d+.m\s+\w+)<',
> str(string))
> >>> print m
> None
&g
t was the double-quote), I believe the issue now is that you have a
space in the string (after the colon), but \b is a zero-width match.
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