On 1/10/2010 11:23 AM, Eric Pavey wrote:
I should add (that as I understand it), when you do a 'from foo import
blah', or 'from foo import *', this is doing a /copy/ (effectively) of
that module's attributes into the current namespace. Doing "import foo"
or "import foo as goo" is keeping a /refe
On 01/14/10 06:56, Hugo Arts wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Hugo Arts, 13.01.2010 15:25:
>>>
>>> Here is my solution for the general case:
>>>
>>> from itertools import groupby
>>> def alphanum_key(string):
>>>t = []
>>>for isdigit, group in groupby(strin
On 01/14/10 10:29, Hugo Arts wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Alan Gauld
> wrote:
>> >
>> > I prefer the next() approach.
> Rightfully so. IMO, The while loop with readline is basically the C
> version of that, for the poor people who don't have iterators.
I would often prefer while lo
On 01/17/10 16:42, Robert wrote:
> I have read quite a bit in the past 2 months, ( I have also looked at codes)
> At this point, I think I understand well what __init__() is and does -
> But, I have yet to see this *specifically* spelled out about the the
> __init__ method for a Class;
>
> It is O
On 01/24/10 17:14, David Hutto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post to the list, so tell me if I'm posting incorrectly.
>
> I'm creating a script, http://python.codepad.org/mHyqbJ2z that gives the area
> of two circles, based on their radius, and displays the difference between
> the two resu
On 01/24/10 19:17, David Hutto wrote:
> Thanks
> for the solutions and the quick responses. I just removed the variable
> and used print, I thought they would be considered the same whether as
> a variable, or as a direct line, guess not.
>
what is equivalent:
print (a, b, c)
and
x = a, b, c
pr
Do you know python's object model? A lot of these things will make much
more sense once you do:
http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm
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On 01/28/10 17:22, Muhammad Ali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am multipliying two lists so that each of list As elements get multiplied
> to the corresponding list Bs. Then I am summing the product.
>
> For example, A= [1, 2, 3] and B=[2, 2, 2] so that I get [2, 4, 6] after
> multiplication and then sum it
On 02/19/10 23:42, Norman Rieß wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i am trying to read a large bz2 file with this code:
>
> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r")
> for line in source_file:
> print line.strip()
>
> But after 4311 lines, it stoppes without a errormessage. The bz2 file is
> much bigger though.
On 02/20/10 07:42, Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 02/19/10 23:42, Norman Rieß wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i am trying to read a large bz2 file with this code:
>>
>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file, "r")
>> for line in source_file:
>> print line.s
On 02/20/10 07:49, Norman Rieß wrote:
> Am 19.02.2010 21:42, schrieb Lie Ryan:
>> On 02/19/10 23:42, Norman Rieß wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> i am trying to read a large bz2 file with this code:
>>>
>>> source_file = bz2.BZ2File(file
On 02/24/10 13:53, Kirk Bailey wrote:
> Anyone knoow of a good python Webmail client in python for my windows
> notebook?
what do you mean by "python webmail client"? Could you elaborate?
If you want to send email programmatically, use the smtplib module if
the server supports SMTP.
On 02/24/10 10:27, C M Caine wrote:
> Thanks all (again). I've read the classes tutorial in its entirety
> now, the problem I had didn't seem to have been mentioned at any point
> explicitly. I'm still a fairly inexperienced programmer, however, so
> maybe I missed something in there or maybe this
Why? That's a good philosophical question... hmm... why? Hmm
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On 02/27/10 00:31, Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> Checked the manuals on pydoc and wanted to try it. Must certainly be
> doing something wrong but I can't figure what. Here's my session :
The pydoc command works from your system shell (e.g. bash), not python
shell; if you want to get help inside python's
On 03/01/10 01:12, Alan Gauld wrote:
>
>> def getLines(file):
>> """Get the content of a file in a lines list form."""
>> f = open(file, 'r')
>> lines = f.readlines()
>> f.close()
>> return lines
>
> I'm not sure these functions add enough value to ghave them. I';d
> probably just use
>
On 03/01/10 02:49, Karim Liateni wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
>> On 03/01/10 01:12, Alan Gauld wrote:
>>
>>>> def getLines(file):
>>>> """Get the content of a file in a lines list form."""
>>>> f =
On 03/01/10 06:39, AG wrote:
> After importing the math module and running
>
> math.cos( x )
>
> the result is in radians.
>
> Is there a way of setting this so that it results in degrees? I don't
> want to over-ride this permanently for my Python settings, so am happy
> to specifically do it p
On 03/02/2010 04:13 AM, Wayne Watson wrote:
> See Subject. 40K here, but other Python lists allow for larger (total)
> sizes.
I don't know, I've never realized it; that's an indication that the 40K
limit is reasonable, at least to me. What did you get for posting >40K
mails? Is your mail bounced?
On 03/05/2010 12:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> E.g. a trie needs six pointers just to represent the single
> key "python":
>
> '' -> 'p' -> 'y' -> 't' -> 'h' -> 'o' -> 'n'
>
> while a hash table uses just one:
>
> -> 'python'
You can argue that had trie beed used as the datatype, there will
On 03/18/2010 02:02 AM, Karjer Jdfjdf wrote:
> I'm having problems with iterations and loops.. So I'm curious about the
> best Python-way to do iterations of lists (in if, while etc statements)
> and breaking of loops.
"Best" is a relative term to the current context of the problem. What is
best f
On 03/21/2010 06:00 AM, Karim Liateni wrote:
>
> Hello Alan,
>
> In fact, I want to be sure the users can run it on every machine in our
> network.
> Especially, I want to be able to run it on Solaris 5.8 with python 1.5
> (Unix machine).
> I wanted to know if I could make some custom executable
On 03/21/2010 08:51 PM, Karim Liateni wrote:
>
> Hello Lie,
>
> Thanks for your advices.
>
> To have correct updates from ITs is really a true pain. The network
> is worldwide in our company. I found issues having decent version.
> On my local workstation I have Python v1.5, on compute farm LSF
On 03/28/2010 09:57 PM, yd wrote:
> It's not homework i just want to be able to convert my algorithm into
> good code, and the only way to do that is by actually writing it. I'm
> just writing it to learn how it's done.
In most cases, when:
1) the code is effective (i.e. it always gives correct an
On 03/31/2010 04:00 AM, Yahoo Mail wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am competely new in Python programming. When i reading Chapter 4 in
> "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python" ,
> I am stuck in the exercise 4.
>
> Here is the question:
>
> Enter the following expressions int
On 03/31/2010 03:29 AM, Mike Baker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to connect to a Linux box from my Windows machine and execute
> a series of commands - (ls, pwd, cat 'somefile', etc...). I'm using
> Putty to do the ssh and have set up with Putty's Pagent agent to allow
> me to enter a passphrase
On 03/31/2010 01:26 PM, Marco Rompré wrote:
>
> Please help me i think im on the right track but i need some guidance in
> the dark. lol
And what's your question?
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On 04/01/10 06:51, ALAN GAULD wrote:
> But if it's fixed patterns you can either do a replace()
> in a loop over your patterns:
>
> for pat in ['PID','OBR',.]
> h7string = h7string.replace('\n'+pat, h7string)
>
> Or even build a regex that does it all in one.
> (But the regex could get co
On 04/05/10 04:11, Shurui Liu (Aaron Liu) wrote:
> But the result I got from computer is like this:
> A new critter has been born!
> A new critter has been born!
>
> Hi. I'm an instance of class Critter.
>
> Hi. I'm an instance of class Critter.
Because you tell it to do it in that order:
cr
On 04/05/10 08:54, Alan Gauld wrote:
> Thats right you will need to parse the data to convert it into the
> format you want.
> This is one reason you might find it easier to use XML for storing the data
> and use a tool like ElementCTree to parse it.
s/ElementCTree/ElementTree/?
_
On 04/05/10 17:39, Neven Goršić wrote:
> Thank you for mentioning the possible options.
> I already use option where I import .py module,
> but I run into troubles when making executable with py2exe.
Maybe you should elaborate what problems you're experiencing with
py2exe? Probably we can solve th
On 04/06/10 08:05, Neven Goršić wrote:
> OK, I will describe my "case".
>
> I use menu date stored in list "shape" in file CMFlowData.py in the same
> directory as my main program x.py. In the beginning of the program I
> have command:
>
> import CMFlowData
>
> and everything works fine till I m
On 04/15/10 16:03, Karjer Jdfjdf wrote:
> When I try to parse the outputfile it creates different errors such as:
>* ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token):
That error message is telling you that you're not parsing an XML file,
merely an XML-like file.
> Basically it ususally has somethi
On 04/16/10 16:50, Ark wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> A friend of mine suggested me to do the next experiment in python and Java.
>
> It's a simple program to sum all the numbers from 0 to 10.
>
> result = i = 0
> while i < 10:
> result += i
> i += 1
> print result
>
Are you su
On 04/21/10 02:58, Lowell Tackett wrote:
> I'm running headlong into the dilemma of binary math representation, with
> game-ending consequences, e.g.:
>
Never use float for representing numbers, use float to represent a
"magnitude", do not rely on the exact representation of the number itself.
On 04/24/10 23:39, Robert Berman wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: tutor-bounces+bermanrl=cfl.rr@python.org [mailto:tutor-
>> bounces+bermanrl=cfl.rr@python.org] On Behalf Of Alan Gauld
>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 7:41 PM
>> To: tutor@python.org
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Binar
On 04/27/10 12:19, Dave Angel wrote:
> Note also that if you insert or delete from the list while you're
> looping, you can get undefined results. That's one reason it's common
> to build a new loop, and just assign it back when done. Example would
> be the list comprehension you showed earlier.
On 04/28/10 12:35, Marco Rompré wrote:
> Here is my code, I need to display my float value as a string.
>
> item.set_prix str(float(prix))
print prix
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On 04/29/10 01:32, m...@doctors.net.uk wrote:
> While some patterns are infinite, other's aren't (e.g. The example I gave).
How should the regex engine know about that?
> Using a subset of Regex syntax to produce a set of strings has the
> advantage of using a well understood and documented for
On 04/30/10 06:23, Shurui Liu (Aaron Liu) wrote:
> # Blackjack
> # From 1 to 7 players compete against a dealer
>
>
> Here is the code of this game. I want to change some part of them.
> 1. Since I don't know what part of code is "responsible" for the
> number of cards, so I don't know how to ad
On 05/02/10 15:49, spir ☣ wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there anywhere some introduction material to the implementation of python
> lists
> (or to fully dynamic and flexible sequences, in general)?
> More precisely, I'd like to know what kind of base data-structure is used
> (linked list, dynamic arra
On 05/06/10 10:37, Damon Timm wrote:
> Hi - am trying to write some unit tests for my little python project -
> I had been hard coding them when necessary here or there but I figured
> it was time to try and learn how to do it properly.
>
> This test works, however, it only runs as *one* test (whi
On 05/09/10 02:19, Tino Dai wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> My friend and I were having a disagreement about Python. Has Python
> always been an OO language or was it at one point a procedural language like
> C? Thanks!
AFAIK Python has always been a mixed paradigm language. You can write
fully O
On 05/12/10 13:31, Sivapathasuntha Aruliah wrote:
> Hi
> I thank you for your prompt response. I am using WINXP. Possibly programs
> written for Python 3 may not work in Python2 as informed by you due to
> syntax unmatch.
Very unlikely. If python is told to execute a faulty script (or even
arb
On 05/13/10 03:58, Su Chu wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am new to Python. I am attempting to either define a "which" statement or
> to find a method that already exists to do this sort of operation.
>
> My problem is as follows:
> I have three lists, one with unique values (list 1), one a sequence of
On 05/21/10 20:17, Neven Goršić wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I run into Python error in rounding and not know how to predict when it will
> occur in order to prevent wrong result.
That's because it's floating point number.
> What can I do to assure accurate result?
Use decimal module to do precise control
On 05/22/10 01:30, Neven Goršić wrote:
> Thanks!
> It's pity that Python has such unreliable functions so you never know in
> advanced when you will hit new one ...
Well, it's not Python but the machine. Floating point number is not Real
numbers; there are certain limitations imposed by physical l
On 05/22/10 22:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 2010 07:16:20 am wesley chun wrote:
>> correct, it is a floating point issue regardless of language.. it's
>> not just Python. you cannot accurately represent repeating fractions
>> with binary digits (bits). more info specific to Python he
On 05/29/10 18:29, spir ☣ wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> from the thread: "class methods: using class vars as args?"
>
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:01:10 +1000 Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 May 2010 07:42:30 am Alex Hall wrote:
>>> Thanks for all the explanations, everyone. This does make sense,
On 05/30/10 05:49, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> In Battleship, I have a weapons.py file, currently with just one
> missile type (a Harpoon anti-ship missile). This Harpoon class defines
> a getImpactCoords method, which returns all coordinates on the map
> that it will hit. I would like to not inst
On 06/03/10 01:37, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>
>>> some older procedural languages I always end up becoming confused by
>>> the large number of built in methods.
>>
>> C is one of the simplest procedural languages around
>> and yet it comes with a huge library of functions (several
>> hundred in some case
On 06/06/10 19:36, Payal wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 06:26:18PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Two things. Firstly, the Python regex engine numbers backreferences from
>> 1, not 0, so you need \1 and not \0.
>
> Thank for the mail, but i am still not getting it. e.g.
>
> In first sub I e
On 06/07/10 11:08, Alex Hall wrote:
> On 6/6/10, bob gailer wrote:
>> On 6/6/2010 8:44 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>>> --
>>> Have a great day,
>>> Alex (msg sent from GMail website)
>>> mehg...@gmail.com;http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap
>>>
>>>
>> What is your question?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob Gailer
>> 919-6
On 06/11/10 01:14, prasad rao wrote:
> Hi
>
> def cript(doc=None,data =None):
>if doc==None and data==None:doc=sys.agv1
>elif doc:
> data=open(doc,'r').read()
> data_c= binascii.hexlify(data)
>else:data_c= binascii.hexlify(data)
>if doc:
> q=tempfile.Tempor
On 06/13/10 04:22, Wayne Werner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do something like this:
> http://www.kulturblog.com/2007/11/marshie-attacks-halloween-interactive-driveway-activity/
>
> I want to be able to grab a webcam image via python. So I'm curious if
> anyone has had any experience/luck in this p
On 06/18/10 06:41, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> I'm using BeautifulSoup to process a webpage. One of the fields has a
> unicode character in it. (It's the 'registered trademark' symbol.) When
> I try to write this string to another file I get this error:
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode
On 06/18/10 14:21, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>> Remember, even if your terminal display is restricted to ASCII, you can
>> still use Beautiful Soup to parse, process, and write documents in UTF-8
>> and other encodings. You just can't print certain strings with print.
>
> I can print the string fine. It
On 06/24/10 02:10, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
> Can someone confirm that Python 2.6 ftplib does *NOT* support
> Unicode file names? Or must Unicode file names be specially
> encoded in order to be used with the ftplib module?
>
I don't know the specifics about ftplib, however I believe in most fil
On 06/29/10 19:48, Richard D. Moores wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 01:06, Alan Gauld wrote:
>> "Richard D. Moores" wrote
>>
You log into Gmail and your browser downloads the Gmail page;
>>>
>>> Yes, of course. But I'm always logged into Gmail.
>>
>> But it is still continually downloading
On 07/01/10 02:20, Aaron Chambers wrote:
> I'm new to Python, and wanted to start messing around with it, but the
> computer I'm using is running Windows 7, so is there a version of Python
> that's compatible with 7?
Yes.
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On 07/05/10 22:23, Adam Bark wrote:
>
> I should add that this is how something like:
>
> if x != y:
> do_something()
>
> works, if expects a True or False (this isn't always true but works for
> comparison operators expressions such as this).
>
"if" expects an expression that can be con
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:19:46 +0100, Ian Ozsvald
wrote:
Recently I've started to follow a couple of email lists that send me
regular tip emails, I've found them to be rather nice - an easy to
read tip that comes every week that I can digest when I'm ready and
I
can reference afterwards.
In th
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:43:25 -0400, Chris King
wrote:
How do you convert a string into a sound object.
Do you mean as in text-to-speech or playing byte string that contain
sound data in a certain encoding to the speaker?
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>
> Earlier today, I tried to add a folder to my PYTHONPATH. When
> I tried sys.path.app('location/of/folder'), the command successfully
> executed it, but then when I did sys.path to check to see if it was
> now in my PYTHONPATH, it was not there. Does anyone know wha
On 09/11/10 07:36, Rance Hall wrote:
> I'm using the following function style I found on the net to create
> menus for a command line python script:
>
> It works well, but the first item is the list is item 0. This is
> normal in most computing situations, but because this index is part of
> the
On 09/11/10 23:25, Rance Hall wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Lie Ryan wrote:
>> On 09/11/10 07:36, Rance Hall wrote:
>
>
>
>> In most cases in Python, you would almost never need to reference the
>> list's index directly since python makes it e
On 09/12/10 04:01, Walter Prins wrote:
> I guess the question to ask/consider is: How can be establish whether a
> particular object supports a particular interface/set of behaviours that
> we require? E.g. how do we most pythonically check whether some object
> "walks like a list" and "quacks lik
On 09/12/10 03:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Or you could do this:
>
> if do_this_will_succeed() and do_that_will_succeed() \
> and do_something_else_will_succeed():
> do_this()
> do_that()
> do_something_else()
> else:
> do_error()
>
> But that hasn't done anything to prevent race
On 09/12/10 21:15, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have this problem.
>
> Write a program named litter.py that creates an empty file named trash.txt in
> each subdirectory of a directory tree given the root of the tree as an
> argument (or the current directory as a default).
By de
On 09/17/10 00:22, Vince Spicer wrote:
>
>
> Well I can't comment on right or wrong I would think creating a simple
> class with a __call__ method is a little more pythonic.
I think even more pythonic is to use closure:
def create_setpattern(type_):
def f(self, pattern, parameter):
> It appears that the Tk canvas widget does not support simply
> plotting a pixel. However, I can plot a line only one pixel long.
> I wonder why they do not simply provide the pixel plot primitive? I
> have seen very many graphics packages that do this and I have always
>
On 09/19/10 02:50, Knacktus wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> the usual explanation for the usage of a Singleton goes like this:
>
> "Use a singleton if you want to make sure, that only one instance of a
> class exists."
>
> But now I ask myself: Why should I call the constructor of a class more
> than once
On 09/19/10 09:39, ALAN GAULD wrote:
>> It appears that the Tk canvas widget does not support simply plotting
> a pixel.
>
> Correct, and I agree it seems odd, but in practice drawing either lines or
> ovals of one-pixel do the equivalent job - albeit a little more slowly.
More slowly and takes
On 09/27/10 09:45, Jojo Mwebaze wrote:
> Hey Tutor,
>
> Seems a small issue but this has been playing for a while now, what am i
> doing wrong here?
>
super() without argument only works for Python 3. In Python 2.x, you
have to pass to super your class name and your class instance, i.e.:
Class
On 09/28/10 13:57, Bill Allen wrote:
> I can now see that quite a bit of the code I write dealing with lists
> can be done with list
> comprehensions. My question is this, is the list comprehension styled
> code generally
> more efficient at runtime? If so, why?
Yes, because the looping in list
On 10/24/10 15:33, Nathan Finney wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So I got bored of having to do a repeated task on this game, YPP Puzzle
> Pirates and I was wondering if it was possible to script it.
Even if you can (hint: no, you can't), most games consider writing
scripts to do tasks as botting, i.e. cheat
On 10/25/10 02:46, Jose Amoreira wrote:
> On Sunday, October 24, 2010 01:18:52 pm Alan Gauld wrote:
>
>> In pseudo code:
>>
>> def coinToss(prob = 0.5):
>> rand = random()
>> if rand >= prob: return True
>> else: return False
>>
>> print "Heads" if coinToss(6/11) else "Tails"
>>
>
> T
On 10/23/10 01:19, David Hutto wrote:
> If I understand what i just said correctly, it just means it tells the
> string what type to convert from when placing it into the final
> result.
basically, when doing this %-interpolation, python does this:
("NEW LOW: %%.%sf at %%s" % i) % (lowz, time
On 10/26/10 13:46, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> Now that I am able to run the source code of an open source
> application I hope to one day help develop, I am trying to understand
> how it works. One thing I keep seeing is an at sign followed by a
> word, usually (maybe always) immediately preceedi
On 10/28/10 06:57, Sean Carolan wrote:
> Is there an easy way to find the target of a symbolic link on a Linux
> system with python? I'm looking for something like the output of the
> bash command: "ls -l"
you're looking for
>>> os.path.realpath('/bin/uncompress')
'/bin/gunzip'
On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:42:47 -0800, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> Aha! My list of "magic words"!
> (Sorry for the top post - anybody know how to change quoting defaults in
> Android Gmail?)
> --- www.fsrtechnologies.com
>
> On Feb 9, 2009 2:16 PM, "Dinesh B Vadhia"
> wrote:
>
> Kent /Emmanuel
>
> I
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:43:18 -0500, python wrote:
> Kent,
>
>> Except they are not equivalent when you want to print more than one
>> thing. ...
>> Python 2.6:
>> In [1]: print(3, 4)
>> (3, 4)
>
> I'm running Python 2.6.1 (32-bit) on Windows XP.
>
> I don't get the tuple-like output that you ge
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:26 AM, wrote:
>
> > Are you sure it isn't python 3.x you're playing with? The reason why
> simple print function "works" in python 2.x is because of a syntactical
> coincidence, it is still a 100% statement.
>
> Yes, I'm sure :) I restarted IDLE and pasted my session out
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:22:09 +0100, Andre Engels wrote:
> What is 'new' in your solution? Apart from that, the following looks
> simpler:
>
url = "http://this/is/my/url/to/parse"; parts = url.split('/')
sol = '/'.join(parts[:-1])
sol
> 'http://this/is/my/url/to'
do you want somethi
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 21:29 +0100, tutor-requ...@python.org wrote:
> Do you know about sequence unpacking? In an assignment statement, when
> the right side is a sequence, the left side can be a list of variables
> of the same length as the sequence. Then each sequence element is
> assigned to one
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 09:38 -0500, bob gailer wrote:
> Lie Ryan wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 21:29 +0100, tutor-requ...@python.org wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Do you know about sequence unpacking? In an assignment statement, when
> >> the right side is a s
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:34:23 -0700, Eric Dorsey wrote:
> Greetings Tutor:
> I've managed to install Python 2.6 on my Ubuntu VM from source, however,
> it looks as though I missed something important along the way. My 2.6
> interpreter does not have readline support (example: I cant hit up arrow
>
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:12:57 +1100, Oxymoron wrote:
> Thanks for the answers everyone.
>
> Denis, I wish to wrap an already open file handle basically, so simply
> extending and overriding doesn't help - my proxy won't be instantiated
> like a file, just used like one and if not intercepting I ne
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:45:52 -0800, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> Don't use reserved words as variable names!
str, set is built-in function not reserved words. Reserved words are like
if, for, from, as (see the whole list type keywords in help() )
Nevertheless, it is a bad idea to use built-in funct
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:21:22 +0100, roberto wrote:
> hello
> i have a question which i didn't solved yet: i can define a function
> using the text editor provided by IDLE 3.0; then i'd like to call this
> function from the python prompt
>
> but when i try to do it, python warns me that function d
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:26:29 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:13 PM, nathan virgil
> wrote:
>> I'm not familiar with lambdas yet, and I don't think this book will
>> introduce me to them; they aren't listed in the index, anyway.
Nobody remembers partial?
from functools imp
> name like "foo" to be changed
Nitpick: "foo" is a string, not a name...
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:27:34 +0300, زÙاد ب٠عبداÙعزÙز اÙباتÙÙ wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:56 -0700
> Eric Dorsey wrote:
>> I did an aptitute install of ibreadline5-dev and then did ./configure
>> and make again, and still don't have any functionality to be able to
>>
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 22:23 -0700, Eric Dorsey wrote:
> Thanks for all your continued insights on this. I'm going to
> investigate the .configure log, as well as look around at other
> readline packages.. But, noob question, did you just go into something
> like synaptic to find out what readline t
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:38:27 +0530, Abhishek Kumar wrote:
> hello list,
>
You need to read through the tutorial first: http://docs.python.org/
tutorial/
If there are still things you don't understand, please ask again.
As for your question, here is a sample useless python code:
class MyClass(
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:38:27 +0530, Abhishek Kumar wrote:
> hello list,
>
You need to read through the tutorial first: http://docs.python.org/
tutorial/
If there are still things you don't understand, please ask again.
As for your question, here is a sample useless python code:
class MyClass(
Try thinking what happens when you do this:
line = 'this is a rellly long line\n'
first = line[:20]
second = line[20:]
print first
print second
.
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.
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.
.
.
Have you got it? The first would contain "this is a re" and the
second "llly long linee
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:59:40 +0530, prasad rao wrote:
> def myform(s):
> import os
> so=open(s)
> d=os.path.dirname(s)+os.sep+'temp.txt'
> de=open(d,'w')
> for line in so:
> while len(line)>60:
> item=line[60:]
> try:
> a
Nuno Hespanhol wrote:
> Hi.
> I have started learning phyton today!
> I was playing around with some large numbers (fibonacci series)
> and noticed that in some large calculations results have an "L" at the
> end of a number.
> Does this L stands for Large? Is there any way to disable this feature,
Daniele wrote:
>> From: W W
>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] modular program
>
>>> Where can I find some "best practices" for writing modular programs?
>>> I thought about a txt file containing function calls that my program will
>>> parse and execute in order, or is it better just to execute every .py fi
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