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socket.inet_ntop, and pton question
by Andrew Aug. 5, 2009

Aug. 5, 2009

Hi Are these functions (inet_ntop(), inet_pton()) from the socket library supported on Windows. If not is there an equivalent for them using Windows Ive seen mention of people creating their own in order to use them Appreciate the help ty

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Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.
by Lennart Benschop July 14, 2009

July 14, 2009

Python has had the Decimal data type for some time now. The Decimal data type is ideal for financial calculations. Using this data type would be more intuitive to computer novices than float as its rounding behaviour matches more closely what humans expect. More to the point: 0.1 and 0.01 are exact in Decimal and not exact in float. Unfortunately it is not very easy to access the Decimal data type. To obtain the decimal number 12.34 one has to do something like this: import decimal x=decimal.Decimal("12.34") Of course we can intruduce a single character function name as an alias for the Decimal type constructor, but even then we have to use both parentheses and quotes for each and every decimal constant. We cannot make it shorter than D("12.34") With Python 3000 major changes to the language are carried out anyway. My proposal would require relatively minor changes. My proposal: - Any decimal constant suffixed with the letter "D" or "d" will be interpreted as a literal of the Decimal type. This also goes for decimal constants with exponential notation. Examples of decimal literals: 1d 12.34d 1e-3d (equivalent to 0.001d) 1e3d (same value as 1000d, but without trailing zeros). 1.25e5d (same value as 125000d but without trailing zeros). When we print a decimal number or convert it to a string with str(), a trailing d should not be added. The repr function does yield strings with a trailing d. When decimal numbers are converted from strings, both numbers with and without a trailing d should be accepted. If we have decimal literals in the core language, we should probably have a type constructor in the core namespace, e.g. dec() along with int() and float(). We then need the decimal module only for the more advanced stuff like setcontext. Pros: - the Decimal data type will be more readily accessible, especially for novices. - Traling characters at the end of a literal are already used (the L for long). - It does not conflict with the syntax of other numeric constants or language constructs. - It does not change the meaning of existing valid literal constants. Constants that used to be float will continue to do so. Cons: - The lexical scanner of the Python interpreter will be slightly more complex. - The d suffix for constants with exponential notation is ugly. - Decimal numbers with exponentail notation like 2e5d could be mistaken for hex (by humans, not by the parser as hex requires the 0x prefix). - It requires the decimal module to be part of the core Python interpreter. -- Lennart

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Re: renice
by Dan July 14, 2009

July 14, 2009

On Oct 26, 4:30 am, mokhtar <mbmessa...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi > > Is it possible to renice the python process executing the current python > script ?:confused: > -- > View this message in context:http://www.nabble.com/renice-tf4695834.html#a13422771 > Sent from the Python - python-list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. On UNIX: >>> import os >>> os.system("renice -n %d %d" % ( new_nice, os.getpid() ) ) (untested) I don't know if windows has the concept of renice... -Dan

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Re: SSH utility
by Sean DiZazzo July 8, 2009

July 8, 2009

On Aug 11, 5:17 am, Edwin.Mad...(a)VerizonWireless.com wrote: > for similar tasks, I use pexpecthttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/pexpect. > > spawning bash process and simulate an interactive session. Here sending ls command, retrieving results and exiting. In the spawned process ssh or any other command, is just another command. > > ------------actual session-------------------------- > $ python > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 18 2007, 16:56:43) > [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>> import pexpect > >>> c = pexpect.spawn('/bin/bash') > >>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ ']) > 2 > >>> c.before, c.after > > ('\x1b[?1034hmadared@NJWARHQD0IT696A:~\r\n', '$ ')>>> c.sendline('ls') > 3 > >>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ ']) > 2 > >>> c.before, c.after > > ('ls\r\x.txt xx.txt xy.txt y.txt\r\nmadared@NJWARHQD0IT696A:~\r\n', '$ ')>>> c.sendline('exit') > 5 > >>> c.expect([pexpect.TIMEOUT, pexpect.EOF, '\$ ']) > 1 > >>> c.before, c.after > > ('exit\r\nexit\r\n', <class 'pexpect.EOF'>)>>> exit() > > madared@NJWARHQD0IT696A:~ > $ > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > hope that helps. > > regards. > Edwin > > -----Original Message----- > From: python-list-bounces+edwin.madari=verizonwireless....(a)python.org > > [mailto:python-list-bounces+edwin.madari=verizonwireless....@python.org] > On Behalf Of James Brady > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 12:26 AM > To: python-l...(a)python.org > Subject: SSH utility > > Hi all, > I'm looking for a python library that lets me execute shell commands > on remote machines. > > I've tried a few SSH utilities so far: paramiko, PySSH and pssh; > unfortunately all been unreliable, and repeated questions on their > respective mailing lists haven't been answered... > > It seems like the sort of commodity task that there should be a pretty > robust library for. Are there any suggestions for alternative > libraries or approaches? > > Thanks! > James > --http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > The information contained in this message and any attachment may be > proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work > product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or > agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify me > immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all > copies and backups thereof. Thank you. I second pexpect and the nice little module that comes with it ssh_session.py. Been using it for ages now! ~Sean

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Re: pep 8 constants
by Bruno Desthuilliers July 2, 2009

July 2, 2009

Brendan Miller a écrit : > PEP 8 doesn't mention anything about using all caps to indicate a constant. > > Is all caps meaning "don't reassign this var" a strong enough > convention to not be considered violating good python style? I see a > lot of people using it, but I also see a lot of people writing > non-pythonic code... so I thought I'd see what the consensus is. Most - if not all - of the python code I've seen so far used this convention, and I always used (and respected) it myself.

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encoding problem
by digisatori＠gmail.com June 28, 2009

June 28, 2009

The below snippet code generates UnicodeDecodeError. #!/usr/bin/env python #--*-- coding: utf-8 --*-- s = 'äöü' u = unicode(s) It seems that the system use the default encoding- ASCII to decode the utf8 encoded string literal, and thus generates the error. The question is why the Python interpreter use the default encoding instead of "utf-8", which I explicitly declared in the source.

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install pyPgSQL on Windows for python 2.5
by someone May 12, 2009

May 12, 2009

Hi, does anyone know how to install pyPgSQL on Windows? There is no package for Python 2.5 on Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=16528&package_id=2045… I've tried to install running: python setup.py install But getting errors python setup.py install -> running install running build running build_py running build_ext error: Python was built with Visual Studio 2003; extensions must be built with a compiler than can generate compatible binaries. Visual Studio 2003 was not found on this system. If you have Cygwin installed, you can try compiling with MingW32, by passing "-c mingw32" to setup.py. I've installed newest Visual C++ Studio 2008 from Microsoft, but still no luck Pet

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Re: Iphone Going 3G!
by Shafiq May 6, 2009

May 6, 2009

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writing large dictionaries to file using cPickle
by perfreem＠gmail.com April 26, 2009

April 26, 2009

hello all, i have a large dictionary which contains about 10 keys, each key has a value which is a list containing about 1 to 5 million (small) dictionaries. for example, mydict = {key1: [{'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 'hello'}, {'d', 3, 'e': 4, 'f': 'world'}, ...], key2: [...]} in total there are about 10 to 15 million lists if we concatenate together all the values of every key in 'mydict'. mydict is a structure that represents data in a very large file (about 800 megabytes). what is the fastest way to pickle 'mydict' into a file? right now i am experiencing a lot of difficulties with cPickle when using it like this: from cPickle import pickle pfile = open(my_file, 'w') pickle.dump(mydict, pfile) pfile.close() this creates extremely large files (~ 300 MB) though it does so *extremely* slowly. it writes about 1 megabyte per 5 or 10 seconds and it gets slower and slower. it takes almost an hour if not more to write this pickle object to file. is there any way to speed this up? i dont mind the large file... after all the text file with the data used to make the dictionary was larger (~ 800 MB) than the file it eventually creates, which is 300 MB. but i do care about speed... i have tried optimizing this by using this: s = pickle.dumps(mydict, 2) pfile.write(s) but this takes just as long... any ideas ? is there a different module i could use that's more suitable for large dictionaries ? thank you very much.

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please include python26_d.lib in the installer
by Compie April 20, 2009

April 20, 2009

I get this linker error LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'python26_d.lib' when I build the debug version of my Visual Studio project. This is caused by the following lines in the file c:\Python26\include \pyconfig.h # ifdef _DEBUG # pragma comment(lib,"python26_d.lib") # else # pragma comment(lib,"python26.lib") # endif /* _DEBUG */ The file python26_d.lib is not installed by the Python installer on Windows. So please: 1. Provide python26_d.lib in the installer. or 2. Remove this automatic "pragma comment lib" from pyconfig.h, since I can't disable it from the outside (as far as I know). Please note: I want to build my own code in Debug mode for debugging. I don't want to build or use the debug version of Python. I also can't #undef _DEBUG, since the file that includes pyconfig.h (via Python.h) is generated by SWIG. Also I prefer not to change pyconfig.h myself, since my code needs to compile on a lot of different machines.

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