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Rational numbers
by Janos Blazi Jan. 29, 2000

Jan. 29, 2000

What do you think, wouldn't it be nice if Pythony had the built-in data type "rational" as LISP has? (I would like it. The truth is that the packages are a bit less confortable. Janos Blazi -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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Web Board/Forum CGI in python. Does it Exist?
by islandbase＠yahoo.com Jan. 29, 2000

Jan. 29, 2000

Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has developed web board/forum type CGI scripts in Python. If so, can anyone point me in the right direction. Thanks. Joe J. islandbase(a)yahoo.com

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Call for Participation: Open Source Convention in Monterey (July)
by Guido van Rossum Jan. 29, 2000

Jan. 29, 2000

I received the following request from O'Reilly. The deadline is very tight (Feb 1); this is an exciting opportunity to teach other open sourcers about Python! --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ------- Forwarded Message From: Vee McMillen <vee(a)oreilly.com> Hello, We are accepting proposals for tutorial sessions and conference talks for the Open Source Convention in Monterey, July 17-20, 2000. If you are interested in presenting, please go to the following web sites and follow the instructions for submitting a preliminary proposal: Apache, Linux, Python, Tcl and Open Source Business: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2000/call.html Hope to see you in Monterey, Vee McMillen Speaker Coordinator ------- End of Forwarded Message

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bug in pdb?
by quinn＠mono.ugcs.caltech.edu Jan. 29, 2000

Jan. 29, 2000

Apparently, pdb makes use of a module called repr (which I think is a *terrible* name for a module). When I try to call repr(foo) from pdb, I get TypeError, and worse, when I try to step over code which _uses_ repr, the program blows up. % cat >bug.py foo = 'baz' print repr(foo) ^D % /usr/local/lib/python1.5/pdb.py bug.py > <string>(0)?() (Pdb) n > <string>(1)?() (Pdb) TypeError: 'call of non-...(type module)' > <string>(1)?() (Pdb) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/people/web/bin/pdb", line 921, in ? run('execfile(' + `filename` + ')') File "/usr/people/web/bin/pdb", line 855, in run Pdb().run(statement, globals, locals) File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/bdb.py", line 343, in run exec cmd in globals, locals File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "bug.py", line 2, in ? print repr(foo) TypeError: call of non-function (type module)

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Re: lib reference in Unix man format
by François Pinard Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

William Park <parkw(a)better.net> writes: > HTML is essentially killed INFO, in my opinion. There is still one thing from Info which is sorely lacking in HTML, which is the lack of capability to textually search in a whole document. And if you jump one step above Info, which is Texinfo (Info is automatically derived from Texinfo), you get something able to generate nice printed manuals. Printed dumps from HTML browsers look rather horrible by comparison (unless you get seduced by images, but I'm thinking text, here). There is a lot of machinery around HTML 4.0, trying to repair this aspect, but yet, they are not getting close, still. I have a big deal of Texinfo documentation in both Info and HTML format, here, and Info is much more useful that HTML browsers. In my opinion, Info was hurt by die-hard `man' addicts on one side, and more by the popularity of HTML than its real virtues. Info needs you to know the first letter of the words Next, Previous, Up and Menu, and to use the SPACE key to page forward. Nothing worth whipping a cat, really. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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RE: Is there a Python/WindowsCE mailing list?
by Brian Lloyd Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

> I'm interested in talking with others interested in the > Windows CE port of > Python. I have contacted the author of the port, and I'm also > curious who in > this newsgroup is using or planning to use Python on Windows > CE. Maybe we > can set up a mailing list if there isn't one already set up. The current Python CE list is: python-ce(a)egroups.com. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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memory
by cheselka＠tucana.noao.edu Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

Hi, Are there any issues with freeing memory in python? Say for example I do a d = array.array('i') for i in range (2000): d.append(0) Do I need to free 'd' before I quit the program? Cheers, Matt Cheselka

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Is there a Python/WindowsCE mailing list?
by Warren Postma Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I'm interested in talking with others interested in the Windows CE port of Python. I have contacted the author of the port, and I'm also curious who in this newsgroup is using or planning to use Python on Windows CE. Maybe we can set up a mailing list if there isn't one already set up. Warren Postma ZTR Control Systems

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newbie question on modules
by Janos Blazi Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I have a module a in which a function m_add is defined. Now I want (as the last statement of module a) load and execute a module b. Now it seems that b does not know the function m_add. How can I change that? I'd like to access everything defined in a in the module b that is the (variable) second part of a. What can I do? Janos Blazi -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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database connectivity
by David Metzler Jan. 28, 2000

Jan. 28, 2000

I love what I have seen so far of Python. I am in serious need of guidance however. I spend a couple of nights till the wee hours and have run into a block. What I want to do is create some python database programs that will work on Windows 98/NT and on Linux. The idea is I can slip the programs in at work on Windows and no one will notice. Then I can swap out Windows for Linux in some places and no one will notice. This is what I found: At ftp://starship.python.net/pub/crew/jbauer I got MySQL.pyd and libmySQL.dll and copied them to my Python directory and was able to make a connection on Win98. Thanks Jeff. It took a message from Jeff to find the files because the precompiled version was not mentioned on the web site that I could find. The first thing I tried however failed. I tried c=db.cursor() and it did not work. I figure that cursor is not supported. I'm do not know enough to know if this will be a problem in the future. Also I do not know where to find what the features that are supported are. I then tried Andy Dustman's stuff. I downloaded his package but found that there was no precompiled version for Windows and I am not a "C" programmer and do not have VC 5.0. I took a look at ODBC but it seems to be for Windows only and I a looking for Windows/Linux. MxODBC looks like an interesting product but the author does not support windows directly and the license would require me to talk to the lawyers. I cannot do that because this project not being officially approved would mean that they would ignore me. I also am interested on comparing MySql with Postgres. It looks like Postgres will only work on NT. Now I'm thinking that I would be better off using Linux as the server from the start and make the client program cross platform. The only problem is that now I have to find out how to make the connection with both windows and Linux to the Linux server. And of course I cannot take the project with me on a single Win 98 notebook to work on, when on the road. I can spend some money on this and am willing to buy stuff if it will help. A tutor from Connecticut would be nice, MS VC, a book. I can pay for tools or training but the license cannot limit deployment as I have limited control over that. Of course if I get the database question answered I'll have to work on the graphical cross-platform next. Is what I want to do possible or is Python just for "C" programmers or text parsing? For example is Python the right tool to create an inventory program?

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