Python-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 324
Eduardo Henriquez A.
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Thu Jan 20 10:52:27 EST 2005
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Re: Class introspection and dynamically determining function
> arguments (Diez B. Roggisch)
> 2. Re: xml parsing escape characters (Luis P. Mendes)
> 3. Problem in importing MySQLdb (Gurpreet Sachdeva)
> 4. Re: Problem in importing MySQLdb (deelan)
> 5. Re: mod_python friendly isps in europe (Daniel Bowett)
> 6. Re: xml parsing escape characters (Kent Johnson)
> 7. Re: Zen of Python (Steve Holden)
> 8. Re: Freezing a mutable (was Re: lambda) (Antoon Pardon)
> 9. Re: iteritems() and enumerate() (Steve Holden)
> 10. Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode? (Erik Bethke)
> 11. Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode? (Fredrik Lundh)
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Diez B. Roggisch" <deetsNOSPAM at web.de>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:50:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: Class introspection and dynamically determining function arguments
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >
> > If this only has to work for classes created for the purpose (rather than
> > for an arbitrary class):
> >
>
> Certainly a step into the direction I meant - but still missing type
> declarations. And that's what at least I'd like to see - as otherwise you
> don't know what kind of editing widget to use for a property.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Diez B. Roggisch
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Luis P. Mendes" <luisXX_lupe2XX at netvisaoXX.pt>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:05:59 +0000
> Subject: Re: xml parsing escape characters
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> this is the xml document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <string xmlns="http://www......"><DataSet>
> ~ <Order>
> ~ <Customer>439</Customer>
> (... others ...)
> ~ </Order>
> </DataSet></string>
>
> When I do:
>
> print xmldoc.toxml()
>
> it prints:
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <string xmlns="http://www..."><DataSet>
> ~ <Order>
> ~ <Customer>439</Customer>
>
> ~ </Order>
> </DataSet></string>
>
> __________________________________________________________
> with: stringNode = xmldoc.childNodes[0]
> print stringNode.toxml()
> I get:
> <string xmlns="http://www......."><DataSet>
> ~ <Order>
> ~ <Customer>439</Customer>
>
> ~ </Order>
> </DataSet></string>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> with: DataSetNode = stringNode.childNodes[0]
> print DataSetNode.toxml()
>
> I get:
>
> <DataSet>
> ~ <Order>
> ~ <Customer>439</Customer>
>
> ~ </Order>
> </DataSet>
> _______________________________________________________________-
>
> so far so good, but when I issue the command:
>
> print DataSetNode.childNodes[0]
>
> I get:
> IndexError: tuple index out of range
>
> Why the error, and why does it return a tuple?
> Why doesn't it return:
> <Order>
> <Customer>439</Customer>
>
> </Order>
> ??
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gurpreet Sachdeva <gurpreet.sachdeva at gmail.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:53:06 +0530
> Subject: Problem in importing MySQLdb
> I am using Mysql version 5.0.2-alpha on RedHat 9.0 (python2.2)
>
> When I try to import MySQldb
>
> I get:
> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
> [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import MySQLdb
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line 27, in ?
> import _mysql
> ImportError: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10: symbol errno, version
> GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
>
> Is there any problem in library files?? Do I need to install anything
> I have installed MySQL-shared-3.23.54a-1.i386.rpm,
> MySQL-devel-5.0.2-0.i386.rpm, MySQL-client-5.0.2-0.i386.rpm,
> MySQL-server-5.0.2-0.i386.rpm
>
> Please help,
> Garry
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: deelan <ggg at zzz.it>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:43:01 +0100
> Subject: Re: Problem in importing MySQLdb
> Gurpreet Sachdeva wrote:
> > I am using Mysql version 5.0.2-alpha on RedHat 9.0 (python2.2)
> >
> > When I try to import MySQldb
>
> i' not completely sure mysqldb works with mysql 5.0 and its
> bundled client libraries.
>
> to be more precise:
>
> '' MySQL-5.0 and newer are not currently supported,
> but might work.''
>
> from:
> <http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=293608>
>
> > Is there any problem in library files?? Do I need to install anything
> > I have installed MySQL-shared-3.23.54a-1.i386.rpm,
> > MySQL-devel-5.0.2-0.i386.rpm, MySQL-client-5.0.2-0.i386.rpm,
> > MySQL-server-5.0.2-0.i386.rpm
>
> are u sure you have compiled mysqldb against 5.0
> client libs?
>
> you may want to post on the mysqldb forum of ask
> for help there:
>
> <http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=70461>
>
> HTH,
> deelan
>
> --
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Bowett <daniel at bowettsolutions.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:48:37 +0000
> Subject: Re: mod_python friendly isps in europe
> paulo.jpinto at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello everybody
> >
> > I'm thinking about improving my web site scripts
> > and would like to use Python instead of PHP/Perl.
> >
> > Does anyone know of mod_python friendly ISPs in
> > europe? With prices around 10€ ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Paulo
> >
>
> I would doubt you will find any commercial python ISP's out there. If
> you do could you post them here?
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kent Johnson <kent3737 at yahoo.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:01:01 -0500
> Subject: Re: xml parsing escape characters
> Luis P. Mendes wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > this is the xml document:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <string xmlns="http://www......"><DataSet>
> > ~ <Order>
> > ~ <Customer>439</Customer>
> > (... others ...)
> > ~ </Order>
> > </DataSet></string>
>
> This is an XML document containing a single tag, <string>, whose content is text containing
> entity-escaped XML.
>
> This is *not* an XML document containing tags <DataSet>, <Order>, <Customer>, etc.
>
> All the behaviour you are seeing is a consequence of this. You need to unescape the contents of the
> <string> tag to be able to treat it as structured XML.
>
> Kent
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:04:00 -0500
> Subject: Re: Zen of Python
> Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> > Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >>>Huh? [1,2,[3,4,5],[6,[[[[7]],8]]]] is a perfectly valid Python list.
> >>
> >>You're claiming not to know any relevant difference between Python
> >>lists and Lisp lists? Heh.
> >
> >
> > Python doesn't provide syntactic sugar for [1,[2,[3,[4,[]]]]] if
> > that's what you mean. In Lisp you'd say (1 2 3 4). It's still
> > a perfectly valid list in Python. Python by convention uses
> > multi-element arrays instead of lists of conses.
> >
> But how, in Lisp, would you transliterate the Python list [1, 2, 3, 4]?
> Clearly the Python list *is* different, and the tradeoff was to obtain
> speed of random access, presumably (I wasn't taking an interest in
> Python in its early days) anticipating that non-recursive algorithms
> would be the norm.
> >
> >>>And you can break out of a containing loop from a nested loop
> >>>with try/raise.
> >>
> >>Heh heh. Yes, you can. I've never seen a real Python program that
> >>did, but there's nothing to stop you.
> > >
> > I do that on a fairly routine basis. I won't say "often", but it's a
> > standard technique that finds a use now and then.
> >
> Well, I blush to say I have done that (once, if my memory serves me
> correctly), but it was an ugly program, and I did eventually refactor
> the code so that the loops were in separate scopes, which made it much
> cleaner.
>
> [...]
> >
> > There's a technique in numerical analysis called Richardson
> > extrapolation, where you compute an integral by [...]
>
> Wow. Anyone who feels the need to explain numerical analysis techniques
> to Tim Peters is wasting keystrokes big-time. Anyway, Richardson
> extrapolation is merely one of many successive approximation techniques,
> which is what you are talking about, no?
>
> >
> > I see the same thing happening in Python. It's going through
> > successively better approximations to get closer to a limit. Python
> > has it harder than some other languages, because it tries to serve the
> > needs of both throwaway scripts and large-scale development projects.
> > The result is that feature after feature starts out with an
> > implementation sufficient for small scripts, and then edges towards
> > the needs of large-scale projects. But it's often predictable at the
> > beginning what the final destination is going to be. So once we can
> > see where it's going, why not proceed to the finish line immediately
> > instead of bothering with the intermediate steps?
>
> Perhaps because we don't all have your psychic powers?
>
> regards
> Steve
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: 20 Jan 2005 14:07:57 GMT
> Subject: Re: Freezing a mutable (was Re: lambda)
> Op 2005-01-20, Nick Coghlan schreef <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au>:
> > Antoon Pardon wrote:
> >> I missed that you would use it with the idiom: dct[x.frozen()]
> >
> > The list itself isn't hashable with this approach, so you don't have much
> > choice. I wasn't particularly clear about that point, though.
> >
> >> I have two problems with this approach.
> >>
> >> 1) It doesn't work when you get your keys via the keys/items
> >> methods.
> >
> > True - the frozen object has no link back to the original object. That could be
> > added though (by returning a tuple subtype with the extra attribute)
> >
> >> 2) This is rather minor, but a user could still unfreeze
> >> untimely
> >
> > True - doing that is less likely than mutating a hashable list though :)
> >
> > I'm just noting this as a way to avoid copying data more than once when storing
> > immutable copies of mutable data in a dictionary. You're quite right that there
> > isn't a really clean idiom for doing that in Python (aside from moving to a
> > different data structure that works natively as a dict key, naturally).
>
> The problem here is IMO is the, we are all consenting adults (which we
> are not but I wont start on this now), approach.
>
> I have been thinking a bit in your freeze direction, but more thorough.
> The idea i had was that freeze would replace all mutating methods
> with methods that would throw an exception. a thaw method would inverse
> the proces. It would then be the responsibilty of the dictionary to
> freeze an object on entry and thaw it when removed. However this
> wouldn't work with ordinary python objects, since there is no easy way
> to have readonly or private variables.
>
> --
> Antoon Pardon
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:07:39 -0500
> Subject: Re: iteritems() and enumerate()
> Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > Python has iteritems() and enumerate() to be used in for loops.
> >
> > can anyone tell me what these are by themselves, if anything?
> >
> > are they just for idiom?
>
> No, anyone can use them, not just idioms like you.
>
> regards
> Steve
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>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Erik Bethke" <erikbethke at gmail.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: 20 Jan 2005 06:20:46 -0800
> Subject: Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?
> There is something wrong with the physical file... I d/l a trial
> version of XML Spy home edition and built an equivalent of the korean
> test file, and tried it and it got past the element tree error and now
> I am stuck with the wxEditCtrl error.
>
> To build the xml file in the first place I had code that looked like
> this:
>
> d=wxFileDialog( self, message="Choose a file",
> defaultDir=os.getcwd(), defaultFile="", wildcard="*.xml", style=wx.SAVE
> | wxOVERWRITE_PROMPT | wx.CHANGE_DIR)
> if d.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
> # This returns a Python list of files that were selected.
> paths = d.GetPaths()
> layout = '<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n'
> L1Word = self.t1.GetValue()
> L2Word = 'undefined'
>
> layout += '<Vocab>\n'
> layout += ' <Word L1=\'' + L1Word + '\'></Word>\n'
> layout += '</Vocab>'
> open( paths[0], 'w' ).write(layout)
> d.Destroy()
>
> So apprantly there is something wrong with physically constructing the
> file in this manner?
>
> Thank you,
> -Erik
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com>
> To: python-list at python.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:40:35 +0100
> Subject: Re: ElementTree cannot parse UTF-8 Unicode?
> Erik Bethke wrote:
>
> > layout += '<Vocab>\n'
> > layout += ' <Word L1=\'' + L1Word + '\'></Word>\n'
>
> what does "print repr(L1Word)" print (that is, what does wxPython return?).
> it should be a Unicode string, but that would give you an error when you write
> it out:
>
> >>> f = open("file.txt", "w")
> >>> f.write(u'\uc5b4\ub155\ud558\uc138\uc694!')
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters
> in position 0-4: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> have you hacked the default encoding in site/sitecustomize?
>
> what happens if you replace the L1Word term with L1Word.encode("utf-8")
>
> can you post the repr() (either of what's in your file or of the thing, whatever
> it is, that wxPython returns...)
>
> </F>
>
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