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  • Hi list, Can anyone - maybe one of the Python language core team, or someone with knowledge of the internals of Python - can explain why this code works, and whether the different occurrences of the ...
    Vasudev RamVasudev Ram
    Mar 21, 2014 at 8:42 pm
    Apr 9, 2014 at 2:26 am
  • hello Consider following code: True I understand that there is a single object 7 somewhere in memory and both variables A and B point toward this object 7 now do the same with a list: False It seems ...
    AstAst
    Mar 3, 2014 at 9:42 am
    Mar 6, 2014 at 5:46 pm
  • Dumb noob questions: I've installed python 3.3 on my Slack box, which by default comes with python 2.7. I know how to fire up the different IDLE environments, but how do I differentiate between the ...
    NotbobNotbob
    Mar 20, 2014 at 2:58 pm
    Mar 21, 2014 at 12:09 pm
  • If Python is not a fnctional language, then which programming paradigmis dominant?
    MusicdenotationMusicdenotation
    Mar 2, 2014 at 11:14 pm
    Mar 5, 2014 at 12:11 pm
  • greetings, I would like to create a lamda as follows: ? = lambda n: sqrt(n) On my keyboard mapping the "problem" character is alt-v which produces the radical symbol. When trying to set the symbol as ...
    Mark H HarrisMark H Harris
    Mar 25, 2014 at 6:30 pm
    Apr 2, 2014 at 5:55 am
  • One of my roles on this newsgroup is to periodically whine about stupidities in the Python datetime module. This is one of those times. I have some code which computes how long ago the sun set. Being ...
    Roy SmithRoy Smith
    Mar 26, 2014 at 12:58 am
    Mar 28, 2014 at 3:25 pm
  • Hi all I know I *should* be using a Source Control Management system, but at present I am not. I tried to set up Mercurial a couple of years ago, but I think I set it up wrongly, as I got myself ...
    Frank MillmanFrank Millman
    Mar 17, 2014 at 1:06 pm
    Mar 25, 2014 at 5:41 am
  • Imo the lesson here is never write in low level c. Use modern languages with well designed exception handling. -- ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://www.piaohong.tk/newsgroup
    Neal BeckerNeal Becker
    Mar 3, 2014 at 2:17 pm
    Mar 7, 2014 at 2:39 am
  • if (a, b) != (None, None): or if a != None != b: Preference? Pros? Cons? Alternatives? :D
    Contact TrigonContact Trigon
    Mar 29, 2014 at 6:56 pm
    Mar 30, 2014 at 10:48 pm
  • Hi All, I see python now has a plethora of async frameworks and I need to try and pick one to use from: - asyncio/tulip - tornado - twisted From my side, I'm looking to experimentally build a network ...
    Chris WithersChris Withers
    Mar 10, 2014 at 8:38 pm
    Mar 21, 2014 at 6:34 pm
  • Hi everyone! This is regarding the inbuilt 'complex' function. The python docs say: "Note: When converting from a string, the string must not contain whitespace around the central + or - operator ...
    Jayanth KoushikJayanth Koushik
    Mar 15, 2014 at 4:26 pm
    Mar 19, 2014 at 7:35 pm
  • Hello everybody, I implemented a password validation with a Python 2.7.5 script in OpenSUSE 13.1. The user calls it passing 'login' and 'password' as arguments. I made a dictionary in the format ...
    RenatoRenato
    Mar 1, 2014 at 5:49 pm
    Mar 3, 2014 at 6:46 pm
  • Hi everybody, I need to install Python 3.4 final urgently, because my IDE stopped supporting Python 3.4 beta2, and I need it urgently to work. I downloaded it, but the MSI won't install. It didn't ...
    cool-RRcool-RR
    Mar 21, 2014 at 10:05 pm
    Mar 23, 2014 at 1:07 am
  • Hi guys, My env: centos 6.5 64 bit; gdb 7.1; python 2.6.6 I wanna use gdb to attach my running python scripts. Successfully import libpython in gdb, but seems all py operations failed to read python ...
    WesleyWesley
    Mar 7, 2014 at 2:03 am
    Mar 11, 2014 at 7:31 am
  • I think I understand the difference between deep vs. shallow copies but I was bitten by this: with open(os.path.join('path', 'foo.txt', 'rb') as txt: reader = csv.reader(txt) data = [row.append(year) ...
    Alex van der SpekAlex van der Spek
    Mar 12, 2014 at 2:25 pm
    Mar 14, 2014 at 6:17 am
  • I have a script that forks off other processes and attempts to manage them. Here is a stripped down version of the script: self.sleepTime = 300 self.procs = {} self.startTimes = {} self.cmd = ...
    Larry MartellLarry Martell
    Mar 5, 2014 at 10:27 pm
    Mar 14, 2014 at 2:10 pm
  • hi folks, Python Decimal Library dmath.py v0.3 Released https://code.google.com/p/pythondecimallibrary/ This code provides the C accelerated decimal module with scientific/transcendental functions ...
    Mark H. HarrisMark H. Harris
    Mar 3, 2014 at 11:34 am
    Mar 5, 2014 at 7:09 am
  • Hi, ALL, I'm getting this: timestamp out of range for platform localtime()/gmtime() function trying to convert the timestamp with milliseconds into the datetime object. The first hit of Google gives ...
    Igor KorotIgor Korot
    Mar 4, 2014 at 8:57 pm
    Mar 5, 2014 at 4:11 am
  • I'm trying to use python classes and members to define complex data entry forms as a meta language The idea is to use a nice clean syntax like Python to define form content, then render it as HTML ...
    Sells, FredSells, Fred
    Mar 27, 2014 at 8:56 pm
    Mar 28, 2014 at 1:04 pm
  • hi folks, I am posting to share a File Reader Generator which I have been playing with, that simplifies reading of text files on-demand: like log files, config files, small record flat data-bases, ...
    Mark H HarrisMark H Harris
    Mar 15, 2014 at 9:38 pm
    Mar 16, 2014 at 10:36 am
  • So I finally got enough data and enough of an understanding to write some unit tests for my code. These aren't the first unit tests I've written, but the behavior I'm getting is baffling. I'm using ...
    Ethan FurmanEthan Furman
    Mar 11, 2014 at 8:58 pm
    Mar 13, 2014 at 2:27 am
  • I understand that in an object method the first argument in the object itself, called self. However, it doesn't have to be called self, and can be called anything. So my question is why is it called ...
    Westley MartínezWestley Martínez
    Mar 3, 2014 at 6:16 am
    Mar 6, 2014 at 5:46 pm
  • Id like to ask.. do you know any modern looking GUI examples of windows software written in python? Something like this maybe: http://techreport.com/r.x/asus-x79deluxe/software-oc.jpg (or hopefully ...
    D. XenakisD. Xenakis
    Mar 30, 2014 at 11:16 pm
    Apr 3, 2014 at 10:44 pm
  • I'm confused by the behaviour of the following python-script I wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python #I first made a data file 'test.dat' with the following content #1.0 2 3 #4 5 6.0 #7 8 9 import numpy as np ...
    Jean DuboisJean Dubois
    Mar 25, 2014 at 10:26 am
    Mar 26, 2014 at 8:48 am
  • Hi all. I was wondering if someone could explain gc.get_objects() in a bit more detail to me. Does it return a list of 'all objects known to Python'? Only some of them? Which does it return? Which it ...
    Jurko GospodnetićJurko Gospodnetić
    Mar 12, 2014 at 7:34 pm
    Mar 17, 2014 at 5:53 pm
  • OK, I know that Unicode data is stored in an encoding on disk. But how is it stored in RAM? I realize I shouldn't write code that depends on any relevant implementation details, but knowing some of ...
    Dan StrombergDan Stromberg
    Mar 9, 2014 at 2:08 am
    Mar 9, 2014 at 2:53 pm
  • Hello, i am working on a project for learning python and I?m stuck. The directions are confusing me. Please keep in mind I?m very ne to this. The directions are long so I?ll just add the paragraphs ...
    Scott W DunningScott W Dunning
    Mar 1, 2014 at 6:46 am
    Mar 3, 2014 at 7:10 am
  • Hi Everybody actually i want to run python on web browser. I downloaded python and installed but i'm not able to run it in browser but it running using command prompt. so i trying to install mod_wsgi ...
    Rborole06Rborole06
    Mar 23, 2014 at 5:09 pm
    Mar 27, 2014 at 1:01 am
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    Hello, I'm trying to create a for loop that starts at 100 and goes to 10Mllion. The increments are like this: 100, 1000, 10000, ..... Basicaly adding a zero each iteration. I'm having problems trying ...
    PabloeruggeriPabloeruggeri
    Mar 24, 2014 at 12:35 am
    Mar 24, 2014 at 10:58 am
  • Is it possible to somehow 'steal' bytearray's buffer and make it a read-only bytes? I failed to find a way to do this, and would like to make sure. My use case is, I would expect, fairly common. I ...
    Juraj IvančićJuraj Ivančić
    Mar 3, 2014 at 12:07 am
    Mar 4, 2014 at 4:19 pm
  • I am trying to get all the element data from the rss below. The only thing I am pulling is the first element. I don't understand why the for loop does not go through the entire rss. Here is my ...
    TeddybubuTeddybubu
    Mar 22, 2014 at 11:21 am
    Mar 23, 2014 at 10:44 pm
  • I was wondering if a better programmer than I could explain if the removal of OO features in golang really does offer an great benefit over python. An article I was reading ran through a brief ...
    FlebberFlebber
    Mar 10, 2014 at 4:49 am
    Mar 11, 2014 at 8:21 pm
  • No. This has to be a better way to flatten lists: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] marcus
    Mark H HarrisMark H Harris
    Mar 28, 2014 at 9:56 pm
    Mar 29, 2014 at 3:59 pm
  • Hello good people I am working on a caeser cipher program for class. However, I ran into a problem with my outputs. Up to a certain point for example: 1. two('y', 'z') Would give a '\x92' output ...
    Dtran RuDtran Ru
    Mar 21, 2014 at 2:50 am
    Mar 22, 2014 at 5:29 pm
  • Hi list, I noticed a behavior change on Thread._stop() with Python 3.4. I know the method is an undocumented "feature" itself, but some projects are using it, and now they fail. A minimized snippet ...
    Felix YanFelix Yan
    Mar 17, 2014 at 5:18 pm
    Mar 17, 2014 at 8:05 pm
  • Hi Can anyone help with this problem Create a big box out of n rows of little o's for any desired size n. Use an input statement to allow the user to enter the value for n and then print the properly ...
    GeniusrkoGeniusrko
    Mar 1, 2014 at 7:12 pm
    Mar 2, 2014 at 9:48 pm
  • Multiple times, I've seen someone want something like what C-style languages offer where assignment is done in a test, something like if (m = re.match(some_string)): do_something(m) So when I ...
    Tim ChaseTim Chase
    Mar 27, 2014 at 4:08 pm
    Mar 28, 2014 at 8:38 am
  • I can't get this to work. It runs but there is no output when I try it on a file. #!/usr/bin/python import os import sys import re from datetime import datetime #logDir = ...
    James SmithJames Smith
    Mar 27, 2014 at 3:23 am
    Mar 27, 2014 at 3:49 pm
  • test please disregard
    Mark H. HarrisMark H. Harris
    Mar 6, 2014 at 1:36 am
    Mar 17, 2014 at 7:01 pm
  • I've stumbled on a problem with the python-sybase module. If I have a stored procedure like this: create stored procedure test_proc as return 1 and call it from Python like this ...
    Skip MontanaroSkip Montanaro
    Mar 12, 2014 at 9:44 pm
    Mar 13, 2014 at 5:32 pm
  • Hi! I would like to assure that when writing to a file I do not overwrite an existing file, but I'm unsure which is the best way to approach to this problem. As I can see, there are at least two ...
    ZoomZoom
    Mar 12, 2014 at 12:29 pm
    Mar 13, 2014 at 2:49 am
  • Hello: I can't figure out how to create an instance of a python class from 'C++': ( I am relatively new to Python so excuse some of the following. ) In a .py file I create an ABC and then specialize ...
    BillBill
    Mar 5, 2014 at 12:14 am
    Mar 12, 2014 at 5:10 pm
  • How do I read a binary file, find/identify a character string and replace it with another character string and write out to another file? Its the finding of the string in a binary file that I am not ...
    LoialLoial
    Mar 4, 2014 at 12:27 pm
    Mar 5, 2014 at 5:46 pm
  • Django views.py: ... pwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__ )) home_lastmod = strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%m:%SZ',gmtime(os.path.getmtime(pwd+'/templates/art_index.html'))) ... The template gives ...
    Jaap van WingerdeJaap van Wingerde
    Mar 3, 2014 at 1:35 pm
    Mar 4, 2014 at 5:43 pm
  • Haven't seen any mention of it on this list yet, but since it's such an obvious flaw in quite a number of programming languages, here's a good article on the recent security bug in iOS, which was due ...
    Stefan BehnelStefan Behnel
    Mar 2, 2014 at 10:41 am
    Mar 4, 2014 at 11:02 am
  • Hello, I'm trying to use urllib and urllib2 to open an url + login_data in a for loop. How can I display when successfully logged in and how to show when the login is denied? I've tried use this ...
    MarcusMarcus
    Mar 3, 2014 at 12:32 pm
    Mar 3, 2014 at 1:47 pm
  • And lines are delimited entities. A text file is a sequence of lines, separated by certain characters. That's not a tidy way to iterate, that's a way to iterate and then do stuff. Compare: for line ...
    Chris AngelicoChris Angelico
    Mar 23, 2014 at 1:37 am
    Mar 27, 2014 at 4:24 pm
  • Anybody else having trouble getting to Github? I'm trying to get to the pythondotorg issue tracker: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues Thx, Skip
    Skip MontanaroSkip Montanaro
    Mar 21, 2014 at 1:22 pm
    Mar 22, 2014 at 10:19 am
  • Hello. I want to use a c library. It is a complete graphic widget set. Here code working. But i have problem with the callback function. The callback is executed while ClikOnForm is executed but i ...
    FiensprotoFiensproto
    Mar 20, 2014 at 11:16 pm
    Mar 22, 2014 at 12:22 am
  • The current (2.7; maybe 3.x?) logging module doesn't have any sort of "clear out all the current handlers" method. I can hack it by doing log = logging.getLogger() # get the root logger del ...
    Tim ChaseTim Chase
    Mar 16, 2014 at 2:58 am
    Mar 16, 2014 at 6:50 pm
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