🌐 Mailman 3 July 2003 - Python-list - python.org

Unicode problem.... as always
by tjenista＠ball.com July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

I have a parser I am building with python and, unfortunately, people have decided to put unicode characters in the files I am parsing. The parser seems to have a fit when I search for one \uXXXX symbol, and there is another unicode symbol in the file. In this case, a search and replace for © with a µ in the file causes the infamous ordinal error. My quick-fix, because they have good context, is to change them both to "UTF8", and then attempt to replace the UTF8 at the end with the original µ. The problem is that I am getting a Âµ when I try to re-insert using \u00b5 which is the UTF8 code. Words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Fast CGI Vs Java Application Servers
by paul＠boddie.net July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

ctcgag(a)hotmail.com wrote in message news:<20030630120924.209$qh(a)newsreader.com>... > Charles Handy <chppxf1(a)NOSPAM_yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > How does FastCGI compare against java Apps running in java app servers > > like TomCat, Sun One, WebLogic and WebSphere? Is there a business case > > for switching from CGI to Java? > > Do you want there to be one? I think that other contributors to this thread have given interesting "recruitment cases" for introducing Java (the usual stuff about Java being a standard and there being lots of "Java people" in the job market), but then FastCGI/CGI is a very vague term. Is the application in question written in C or C++ (insane as that may seem to developers using more modern languages)? Is the person who posted the question still reading this thread? ;-) One might well argue that a switch from C/C++ to Java might be a worthwhile investment, given the benefits of Java over those languages, but a switch from Tcl, Perl or Python to Java needs to be more rigourously justified in my opinion. > > Performance? > > I've seen dozens of features that were implemented in CGI (not mod_perl > or FastCGI) rewritten to run on a java app server on a beefier machine. > None of them were noticably faster, and many were slower. In various respects, I also believe this to be true. However, there was an interesting case a few months ago where the scalability of Zope was compared with WebSphere on some serious hardware. The outcome (which highlighted certain issues with Zope's threaded execution model, at least in the way it was employed in that particular case) doesn't reduce the relevance of other solutions available for Tcl, Perl and Python. Indeed, in Python solutions there are various different execution models on offer: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/WebProgramming Contrast Twisted, mod_python, Webware and SkunkWeb. > > Productivity? > > I'm about 5x less productive in Java. Indeed. But in the development of a Web application, one also has to consider how productive different members of the extended team are, too. That can have a lot more to do with the chosen technologies deployed on top of the programming language and application server in question. [...] > > Code Reuse? > > Switching a working application to a new language is about the > greatest possible crime there is against code reuse. "We believe in code reuse. Apart from the system we just threw away, of course." Paul

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Re: Want to create an ActiveX object from a Python class
by News M Claveau /Hamster-P July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

Bonjour ! Peut-être en créant un serveur COM, puis en encapsulant celui-ci avec un peu de code, dans VBCCE (=Visual Basic Control Creation Edition, gratuit, chez Microsoft, pour faire des Active-X). C'était juste une idée. Hi ! (sorry for my poor english) Perhaps with : to do an COM server, and use it, in little code, in VBCCE (=Visual Basic Control Creation Edition ; free, at Microsoft, for create Active-X). Just an idea. Url : http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/cce/default.aspx @-salutations -- Michel Claveau

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RE: ANN: pyUnRAR 0.1
by Jimmy Retzlaff July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

Oleg Broytmann (phd(a)phd.pp.ru) wrote: >Hello! Hi Oleg! >On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 04:38:29AM -0700, Jimmy Retzlaff wrote: >> pyUnRAR requires Microsoft Windows, Python 2.2 or higher, and ctypes >> 0.6.2. > Can you instead (or in addition) to wrap http://www.unrarlib.org/ - it >is much more portable? I can't in the short term. I don't have the time and I actually need to extract files from RAR v3 archives in a project of mine - the library at http://www.unrarlib.org doesn't appear to support v3 archives yet. Perhaps when I do have more time that library will support v3, so I'll take a look again then. Thanks for the suggestion! Jimmy

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Re: Want to create an ActiveX object from a Python class
by Syver Enstad July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

shi(a)imaging.robarts.ca (Shi Sherebrin) writes: > A colleague wants some functionality that I've built in a Python class > available to 'drop' into her Visual C++ project. Some time ago she > gave up on trying to use 'regular' COM servers, since ActiveX controls > integrate so much more easily. So if I can't wrap the Python class > into an ActiveX object, I'll have to port it. > > I've been searching through the pythoncom and ctypes documentation and > samples, and can't seem to find any examples of making an ActiveX > object. The pythoncom documentation claims that ActiveX is the same > as COM, but there seems to need to be more added to a COM server to > make it an ActiveX object, and I don't know nearly enough to know how > to do this. > > Is anyone else interested in doing this, and has anyone managed to do > so? If I am not mistaken, the only thing your colleague needs is a type library for the python com object. In the cases I've experienced this is what makes MS IDE's tick when it comes to COM objects.

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Re: experience with emacs and python-mode
by Syver Enstad July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

"Leo" <leo.broska(a)NOSPAM.isys.com.au> writes: > hi all > > i'm new to python and new to the group and i want to develop python with > emacs :-) i try to use python-mode.el version 4.6. > does somebody else uses this? Yes, been using it for years now. Very nice, but has its quirks, the most annoying being perhaps that triple quoted strings are not supported. Well in trivial cases it looks like they are supported because "" is treated as one string and then the final " is the beginning of a new string and then " is the end and then "" is an empty string again.

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Re: new to python - looking for a good book
by Van Gale July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

Peter Ballard wrote: > Why should I buy any of these books when I've got the (free) official > Python documentation downloaded, and always just a click or two away? Well speaking for myself, I like to read different viewpoints and learn insights that different authors are able to express. The official docs are great, but are purely reference. The Nutshell book goes beyond simple reference and provides some great insights and covers some areas outside of stock python (like DBAPI 2.0). Lundh's "Python Standard Library" goes beyond the official library docs by providing useful example code for most library modules. Van

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Re: experience with emacs and python-mode
by Thomas Güttler July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

Leo wrote: > hi all > > i'm new to python and new to the group and i want to develop python with > emacs :-) i try to use python-mode.el version 4.6. > > does somebody else uses this? or what is your recommendation for editing > python code in emacs? My recommendation is, to only edit code in emacs. I execute it in an xterm. C-c C-g is mapped to goto-line. I prefere to jump to the position of an error in the code myself.

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Re: new to python - looking for a good book
by Leo July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

i've just started, too and i like "programming python" from mark lutz. that's somthing to make you interested what's psossible with python. for syntax etc i use the doc frompython.org. cheers, leooo "jodocus" <johocus(a)zonnet.nl> wrote in message news:bdpm5v$g3d$1@info.service.rug.nl... > hi, > > I am new to python (but not to programming - have programmed in many > other languages like C++/lisp/perl etc.) and I would like to buy a good > book. The local bookstore has no books about Python, so I cannot look > into a book and see whether I like it. That is why I turned to this > newsgroup for advise. > > I would like a book with a very complete and correct description of the > language and the built-in features, and things like how to integrate > programs with C or C++. I am not looking for a beginner's handbook with > all kinds of simple examples (since I already know how to program), but > rather a good formal description of all the features of the language > (with a good structure and index, so I can use it as a reference). > > I already saw one book at an on-line bookstore that is probably good: > "Programming Python" by Mark Lutz from O'reilly > > Would you advise me to order this one or are there other books I should > know about? > > TIA, > > R. >

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Undeliverable: Re: Movie
by System Administrator July 1, 2003

July 1, 2003

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