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February 2012 - page 1
Para — 132805848601 Feb 2012*
the script can not go through all the list, anyone could help, would be highly appreciated, thanks a lot ! output: initial 7 lines: [9379, 'G...
contextlib.contextmanager and try/finally (9 Replies)
johannh — 132806294801 Feb 2012*
I'm trying to write a context manager to handle database connections, under the principle that I should not rely on CPython's reference-counti...
Serge Rey — 132807011401 Feb 2012
On behalf of the PySAL development team, I'm happy to announce the official release of PySAL 1.3. PySAL is a library of tools for spatial data ana...
Jason Friedman — 132807575601 Feb 2012
My system's default python is 2.6.5. I have separately installed 3.2.2 at /opt/python. I downloaded python-daemon-1.5.5 and installed with: $ tar ...
Jason Friedman — 132807642101 Feb 2012
My system's default python is 2.6.5. I have also installed python3.2 at /opt/python. I installed a pypi package for 2.6.5 with: $ tar xzf package....
Python Descriptor as Instance Attribute (2 Replies)
Hua Yanghao — 132807863701 Feb 2012*
Hi all, Currently descriptors only work as class attribute, and doesn't work as a descriptor when it is an instance attribute. e.g. if we have des...
'class' named tuple (2 Replies)
Emmanuel Mayssat — 132808078001 Feb 2012*
I have the following program. I am trying to have index the attributes of an object using __getitem__. Reading them this way works great, but assignin...
configobj (2 Replies)
Andrea Crotti — 132809261501 Feb 2012*
I have a couple of questions about configobj, which I'm happily trying to use for this project. The first question is, how do I make a very long l...
Jason Demant — 132809924801 Feb 2012
Looking for your co-founder? FounderDating is back in San Francisco on March 1st (Apply by February 20th), in Seattle on March 6th (Apply by February ...
solutions team — 132811010201 Feb 2012
trust solutions team trustsolutionsteam(at)hotmail(dot)com We're a team for providing solution manuals to help students in their study. We sell th...
TypeError (2 Replies)
Clark, Kathleen — 132811803901 Feb 2012*
Hello, I am new to python and am trying to correct the follow error: TypeError: sequence item 1: expected string, NoneType found The error message is ...
python zipfile v. native unzip (2 Replies)
Jason Friedman — 132811959901 Feb 2012*
Does Python 2.7's zipfile module use its own algorithm or does it leverage the zip/unzip libraries that exist on the host? I ask because my host...
Clark, Kathleen — 132812216501 Feb 2012
Hello and thank you for all responses. I have resolved my problem. Turned out that one of the files was missing "fn" and after deleting the ...
Fabio Zadrozny — 132812556401 Feb 2012
Hi All, PyDev 2.4.0 has been released Details on PyDev: http://pydev.org Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights: ---...
Ariel — 132813161401 Feb 2012
Hi everybody I have a question, here is my problem I want to send an email with content in html with an image embed so I converted the image binary in...
solutions for student — 132814034701 Feb 2012
solutions for student solutions(dot)for(dot)student(at)hotmail(dot)com We're a team for providing solution manuals to help students in their study...
solutions for student — 132814092802 Feb 2012
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Generator problem: parent class not seen (5 Replies)
Russell E. Owen — 132814224102 Feb 2012*
I have an odd and very intermittent problem in Python script. Occasionally it fails with this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Ap...
Question about name scope (18 Replies)
Olive — 132814402902 Feb 2012*
I am learning python and maybe this is obvious but I have not been able to see a solution. What I would like to do is to be able to execute a function...
Dan Goodman — 132814542202 Feb 2012
Hi all, Until recently, our package has been pure Python, so distributing it has been straightforward. Now, however, we want to add some extension mod...
Andres Soto — 132816847102 Feb 2012*
Hi, I'm writing a function which receive a list which elements are strings or new lists (sublists) containing strings. How can I verify if sone el...
Registry entries set up by the Windows installer (2 Replies)
Paul Moore — 132817035002 Feb 2012*
I'm trying to get information on what registry entries are set up by the Python Windows installer, and what variations exist. I don't know eno...
Devi Priya — 132817124802 Feb 2012
http://123maza.com/46/dos754/...
Blockheads Oi Oi — 132818732102 Feb 2012
Not that I'll lose any sleep over it, but section 2.1 of the tutorial for both versions doesn't reflect the minor difference between the behav...
xhtml encoding question (8 Replies)
Tim Arnold — 132818894802 Feb 2012*
I have to follow a specification for producing xhtml files. The original files are in cp1252 encoding and I must reencode them to utf-8. Also, I have ...
changing sys.path (5 Replies)
Andrea Crotti — 132819219502 Feb 2012*
So suppose I want to modify the sys.path on the fly before running some code which imports from one of the modules added. at run time I do sys.path.ex...
Jennifer Turliuk — 132819960802 Feb 2012*
Hi everyone, My name is Jennifer Turliuk. I'm currently in Santiago, Chile for the next 6 months as part of the Startup Chile program. I think you...
Paul Moore — 132820048202 Feb 2012
I've got a build of Python (3.3) on my Windows PC. Everything is built, I believe (core, all modules, HTML help, etc). I want to "install...
Blockheads Oi Oi — 132820558202 Feb 2012
There are several at www.accu.org and select (strangely enough :) book reviews for anyone who may be interested....
Vince Forgetta — 132820992502 Feb 2012*
Hi, I have developed a python program that contains multiple python modules and static content in the form of fonts (pil,pbm and tff files), html, ima...
oleg korenevich — 132821204902 Feb 2012*
I have linux board on samsung SoC s3c6410 (ARM11). I build rootfs with buildroot: Python 2.7.1, uClibc-0.9.31. Linux kernel: Linux buildroot 2.6.28.6 ...
Stefan Krah — 132821659602 Feb 2012
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the release of cdecimal-2.3. cdecimal is a fast drop-in replacement for the decimal module in Python's standard li...
Сергей Владимирович — 132822895103 Feb 2012*
Hello. Please help me to import python module in my application that has python 2.7.2 embeded. I tried example from this link http://docs.python.org/e...
Teddy Toyama — 132824255603 Feb 2012
Okay, I am crossposting this from the eventlet dev mailing list since I am in urgent need of some help. I am running eventlet 0.9.16 on a Small (not m...
Jason Friedman — 132824478003 Feb 2012*
Base module: http://pastebin.com/nQCG5CRC Another module: http://pastebin.com/FFzCCjwG Application: http://pastebin.com/370cWJtT I have a module that ...
multiple constructor __init__ (3 Replies)
Emmanuel Mayssat — 132828684003 Feb 2012*
Hello all, I would like to instantiate my class as follow QObject(<param1>, <parent>) QObject(<parent>) an example would be http://w...
Alec Taylor — 132829418203 Feb 2012
I'm getting linker errors when trying to install PyCrypto on Windows: C:\libraries\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -shared -s build\temp.win-amd64-2...
(No Subject) (2 Replies)
Debashish Saha — 132830034103 Feb 2012*
would u like to help me by answering some vbasic questions about python?...
Killing threads, and os.system() (7 Replies)
Laurent Claessens — 132831291603 Feb 2012*
Hello all I've a program that launches a lot of threads and each of them launches a os.system("my_command"). My program also keeps a lis...
Help writelines (5 Replies)
Anatoli Hristov — 132832135704 Feb 2012*
Hi everyone, I`m totaly new in python and trying to figure out - how to write a list to a file with a newline at the end of each object. I tried alot ...
Andrew Berg — 132832546704 Feb 2012*
It's a rare occurrence, but sometimes my script will terminate and I get this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\path\to\script\scr...
Round 1 (4 Replies)
Alec Taylor — 132851110906 Feb 2012*
One sentence can contain one or more strings next to each-other, which can be joined to make another word. e.g.: "to get her" == "toget...
help function and operetors overloading (2 Replies)
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh — 132851364206 Feb 2012*
Dear all, You know python has many functions for operators overloading such as __add__, __radd__, __invert__, __eq__ and so on. How i see the complete...
eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg — 132853616506 Feb 2012
ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mx Base Distribution Version 3.2.3 for Python 2.4 - 2.7 Open Source Python extensions providing important and useful services fo...
nested embedding of interpreter (1 Reply)
Eric Frederich — 132855853006 Feb 2012*
Hello, I work with a 3rd party tool that provides a C API for customization. I created Python bindings for this C API so my customizations are nothing...
Nitin Bhargava — 132858095507 Feb 2012
Hi, I wish to call a function in c++ dll which returns a unicode array from python. extern "c" { __declspec(dllexport) int test(wchar_t** pp...
SnakeScript? (CoffeeScript for Python) (13 Replies)
Michal Hantl — 132858765207 Feb 2012*
Hello, I've been looking for something similar to CoffeeScript, but for python. Does anyone know of such project? So far I haven't found any a...
IDLE not setting current directory in its path (6 Replies)
gujax — 132858820407 Feb 2012*
Hi, When I open python shell and change to any directory, the sys.path always shows ' '. This means it has temporarily added the current direc...
Alec Taylor — 132859040907 Feb 2012
PIL, PyCrypto and many other modules require a C compiler and linker. Unfortunately neither install on my computer, with a PATH with the following: C:...
Help about dictionary append (5 Replies)
Anatoli Hristov — 132859083607 Feb 2012*
Hi there, I`m again confused and its the dictionary. As dictionary does not support append I create a variable list with dictionary key values and wan...