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Re: best way to host a membership site
by Aaron Watters May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008

On Apr 30, 10:43 am, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmo...@in- nomine.org> wrote: >.... > Werkzeug -http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ .... Wow. An initial glance looks great! I need help with pronunciation, though :(. (also, I'm a little disappointed because I made some notes that looked a little like this...) -- Aaron Watters === http://www.xfeedme.com/nucular/pydistro.py/go?FREETEXT=slip+nibble

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Re: relative import broken?
by Sam May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008

I also have a problem with relative import; I can't for the life of me figure out how to use the damn thing. I think the main problem is with getting Python to recognize the existence of a package. I have S/ p.py B/ b.py W/ pyw/ u.py ws.py and I'd like to get u.py to import all the other 3 programs. I put empty __init__.py files in all of the above directories (is this necessary?), and even manually added the pathway (r'C:\Myname\S') to sys.path, but when I execute from S import p in u.py Python gives "ImportError: No module named S". It says "No module named X" for essentially any package reference, so I think it's just not recognizing the directories as packages. The docs for relative import make this sound much easier than it is. Thanks in advance, I'm at my wit's end. -Sam On Apr 30, 9:41 am, "test" <ju...(a)lemonacid.com> wrote: > basic noob question here. > > i am trying to reference a package, i have the structure: > > mypack/ > __init__.py > test.py > subdir1/ > __init__.py > mod1.py > subdir2/ > __init__.py > mod2.py > > can someone please tell me why the statement: > > from mypack.subdir1.mod1 import * > > does NOT work from mod2.py nor from test.py? > > instead, if i use: > > from subdir1.mod1 import * > > it works perfectly from test.py. > > ....? > > thank you, > > aj.

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Re: PIL and IPTC
by Jumping Arne May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008

Thanks, that is what I needed to get started.

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Re: ]ANN[ Vellum 0.16: Lots Of Documentation and Watching
by Michele Simionato May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008

On Apr 29, 9:51 am, "Zed A. Shaw" <zeds...(a)zedshaw.com> wrote: > However, I'm curious to get other people's thoughts. For what concerns the license, I would say that GPL3 is fine: for a tool basically any kind of license is fine, since the tool is external to the code, so this is a minor point. I am curious about two other things, though, perhaps answered in the book but I had no time to read it all. First question: are you saying that vellum does NOT keep track of already built files and recompile everything each time, i.e. it is really in a different ballpark from make and similar build tools? Second question: what about docutils? A Pythonista would expect a documentation tool to use reST and I am sure plenty of us out there have articles/documents (even books) in reST and would be interested in building them. OTOH I would not be interested in learning yet another lightweight markup language or to go back to TeX. Is the Vellum book written in reST? Michele Simionato

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We have string.isdigit(), why not string.isNumber()?
by MooMaster May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008

N00b question alert! I did a search for isdigit() in the group discussion, and it didn't look like the question had been asked in the first 2 pages, so sorry if it was... The manual documentation says: "isdigit( ) Return true if all characters in the string are digits and there is at least one character, false otherwise. For 8-bit strings, this method is locale-dependent. " So it makes sense that something like 5.6 would return false. But what if we want to make sure that our string is a valid number, ie decimals included? I know how to write a regexp or method or whatever to do this, my main question is *why* something like an isNumber() method is not baked into the class. Does such functionality exist somewhere else in the standard library that I'm just missing?

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Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows
by L. Lindstrom May 1, 2008

May 1, 2008

I have read that Python extension modules must link to the same C run-time as the Python interpreter. This I can appreciate. But does this requirement extend to the C libraries an extension module wraps. The case in point is Pygame and SDL. The Pygame extension modules are built with distutils, so for Python 2.6 using Visual Studio 2008 should ensure the .pyd files link to msvcr90.dll. But SDL is built using Msys/MinGW and the configure/make tool chain. This fails when linking to msvcr90.dll since the small test programs configure builds lack manifest files. They fail to load msvcr90.dll, raising an R6034 error instead. So besides heap management and FILE pointers, is there any reason SDL, or any C dependency, needs to link to the same C run-time as Python? If I ensure SDL frees memory it allocates and does not directly access a file opened by Python can I just use another C run-time such as msvcrt? -- Lenard Lindstrom "%s(a)%s.%s" % ('len-l', 'telus', 'net')

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