🌐 Mailman 3 August 2007 - Python-list - python.org

Ayuda
by Dr. José Contreras Sept. 1, 2007

Sept. 1, 2007

Gente Inteligente y Distinguida, soy un aficionado y apelo a Ustedes, para resolver éste problema. Para WebMaster de Google, me solicita instalar o ejecución de pitón, cómo comprenderán no dispongo de ningún guru de web, por lo que solicito en la medida de sus posibilidades me ayuden a ejecutar pitón para WebMaster, para ingresar a sitemap.xlm. Les saludo con distinguida consideración y respeto. José Si son tan amables, les agradeceré cualquiera sea la Repuesta, en Español o castellano. Gracias

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Re: list index()
by Erik Max Francis Sept. 1, 2007

Sept. 1, 2007

Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: > weird this - maybe a native English speaker can comment - > when I pronounce what fishermen do - it rhymes with roll, > but when I am talking about the thing that lives under bridges > and munches goats, the "O" sound is shorter, and more > towards the back of my mouth. Native English accents vary as well, but _roll_ rhymes with _troll_, not _trawl_. _Trawl_ would rhyme with _fall_, and _fall_ definitely doesn't rhyme with _roll_. -- Erik Max Francis && max(a)alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis I do not like work even when someone else does it. -- Mark Twain

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ANN: SCF released GPL
by hg Sept. 1, 2007

Sept. 1, 2007

Dear all, I am releasing much of my work including SCF (Cross platform Smart Card library & Tools written in Python) to the GPL license. If interested, go to http://www.SnakeCard.com/Source.html I am moving the doc to doxygen and cleaning up the code, so what you'll see there will change in the course of the next few weeks - basically can only get meaningful info on the classes hierarchy at this stage. I am looking for a free subversion server resource to put the code ... if you know of any. Some of the work there will be windows-only related (GINA, activeX components ... and not coded in Python) and the applets JavaCard and BasicCard ... I'm releasing these during the next few days. Regards, hg

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Re: Let's Unite Against Jews and Mongrels!
by Wildemar Wildenburger Sept. 1, 2007

Sept. 1, 2007

Barry OGrady wrote: > He has some wrong ideas. The blacks are victims of the jews as well. > And Jews are the victims of "Christians". And Christians are the victims of "Muslims". Anybody not a victim of anyone else, please raise your hand! /W

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Re: status of Programming by Contract (PEP 316)?
by Neil Cerutti Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

On 2007-08-31, Ricardo Aráoz <ricaraoz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Russ wrote: >> Yes, thanks for reminding me about that. With SPARK Ada, it is >> possible for some real (non-trivial) applications to formally >> (i.e., mathematically) *prove* correctness by static analysis. >> I doubt that is possible without "static declarative type- >> checking." >> >> SPARK Ada is for applications that really *must* be correct or >> people could die. > > I've always wondered... Are the compilers (or interpreters), > which take these programs to machine code, also formally proven > correct? And the OS in which those programs operate, are they > also formally proven correct? And the hardware, microprocessor, > electric supply, etc. are they also 'proven correct'? Who watches the watchmen? The contracts are composed by the programmers writing the code. Is it likely that the same person who wrote a buggy function will know the right contract? -- Neil Cerutti The third verse of Blessed Assurance will be sung without musical accomplishment. --Church Bulletin Blooper

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Re: strings (dollar.cents) into floats
by Ben Finney Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

luca bertini <luca.bertini(a)email.it> writes: > i have strings which look like money values (ie 34.45) > is there a way to convert them into float variables? You most likely do *not* want floating-point numbers for currency, since they rely on the operating system's binary floating point support which cannot accurately represent decimal fractions. >>> float("34.45") 34.450000000000003 Use the arbitrary-precision decimal.Decimal type instead. >>> from decimal import Decimal >>> Decimal("34.45") Decimal("34.45") They support the full range of arithmetic operations, without cumulative precision errors that floats are prone to. -- \ "As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of | `\ flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, | _o__) and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint." -- Jack Handey | Ben Finney

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Automation and scheduling of front page publishing using python
by andrew.arobert＠gmail.com Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

Good afternoon, We have numerous web sites which are currently being manually published via Front Page. Doing one or two sites on an ad-hoc basis was not too bad but we are now over 20 or thirty at set times during a business day. What I would love to do is find a way of automating this task, ideally by the command line, and called from a central automated task scheduler such as Maestro. Using Cygwin's rsync or Microsoft's Robocopy successfully moves a site from one file system path to another but the front page extensions and navigation/etc are broken. Does anyone know of an alternative method for handling this using Python? I did a google search and a scan of the cheese shop but nothing seems to jump out as a place to start. Any advice you can give on this would be fantastic. I've been trying to introduce Python to my shop for some time but they have been most resistant, usually insisting on Perl. Thanks, Andy

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Parameter Passing - String Variable Truncated ?
by goldtech Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

Hi, I'm passing what I think is a string parameter to another Python program (spawn.py) - see the code snip below. But only the counter part gets printed to a log file via spawn.py. Yet the echo print to the output window shows the whole string with the fc part. Better explained below I hope, there's the calling .py and the spawn script .py: ...snip... while fc: counter = counter + 1 fc_cntr = str(counter) + ' : ' + fc print fc_cntr + '\n' # Print to Pythonwin interactive window - eg. "1 : New York" - all is printed OK arglist = [] arglist.append(pythonPath) arglist.append(spawn_script) arglist.append(fc_cntr) # This gets sent to the spawn_script but only "1" gets printed os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, pythonPath, arglist) fc = fcs.next() ... -------------------------- ## the spawn_script import win32com.client, sys, os, time, re in_featclass = sys.argv[1] handle = open('C:\\log_file.txt', 'a') handle.write(in_featclass + "\n") # ONLY the counter part gets printed to the log file! Why? -------------------------- Thanks, for help.

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Python weather application
by seancron Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

Does anybody have any suggestions for getting started on desigining a desktop weather application in Python? I've been looking for access to weather data and while I have found several including the weather.com service I've decided to use the Yahoo! Rss Weather feed since it doesn't have a license like the weather.com service does. However one problem I have with it is that it only accepts zip codes or locations ids. So if a user was to enter the name of the city instead of those two there would be an error. I could make it so they could only enter in the location code or zip code but I would really prefer to have it be automatically corrected. Does anyone have ideas on how to go about this or have an other suggestions? Thanks, Sean

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parsing response from SOAPpy request
by seancron Aug. 31, 2007

Aug. 31, 2007

I'm using SOAPpy to access weather data from the NOAA National Digital Forecast Database XML Web Service [1] and I've been having trouble figuring out how to parse the data. The response comes back as XML document but when I check it with type(result) it shows the the response is a string. Does anyone have any suggestions on getting relevant data? Thanks, -Sean [1] http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/

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