Python

Engineering numerical format PEP discussion
I am considering writing a PEP for the inclusion of an engineering format specifier, and would appreciate input from others. Background (for those who don't already know about engineering notation): Engineering notation (EN) is type of floating point representation. The idea with EN is that the powers of 10 ar... 17 May 2010 14:37

can't get python 2.5.5 to work on mac os x 10.4.11
Hi everyone, I posted this in the cocos2d and pyglet discussion group, I thought I'll get a response right away since my problem is quite general but I got no response. I hope you will help me!!! this is the original post http://groups.google.com/group/cocos-discuss/browse_thread/thread/f8bc92498dbd48af# be... 26 Apr 2010 17:11

Confusing SyntaxError while entering non-indented code in interactive interpreter on continuation line.
On Apr 25, 3:31 pm, Colin Howell <colin.d.how...(a)gmail.com> wrote: [I originally sent this to python-help; the volunteer who responded thought it was OK to repost it here.] I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere before, but I can't find it in the Python issue tracker. The following behavior from the ... 25 Apr 2010 20:03

Confusing SyntaxError while entering non-indented code in interactiveinterpreter on continuation line.
[I originally sent this to python-help; the volunteer who responded thought it was OK to repost it here.] I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere before, but I can't find it in the Python issue tracker. The following behavior from the interactive interpreter is rather confusing. (I've seen this behavior both ... 25 Apr 2010 16:42

ANN: pyevolve 0.6rc1 released !
Pyevolve is an evolutionary computation framework written in pure Python. This is the first release candidate before the 0.6 official release. See more information about this release on the official announce at (http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net/wordpress/?p=1164) or in the Documentation site at (http://pyevolve.s... 25 Apr 2010 16:42

pyjamas 0.7 released
> for fits and giggles, to show what's possible in only 400 lines of python, here is a game of asteroids, written by joe rumsey. yes, it runs under pyjamas-desktop too. http://pyjs.org/examples/asteroids/public/Space.html This URL returns a blank page for me on firefox 3.3.5 (linux) with and without... 7 May 2010 11:08

Interacting With Another Script
On Mar 11, 2:16 am, alex23 <wuwe...(a)gmail.com> wrote: Victor Subervi <victorsube...(a)gmail.com> wrote: There's a program (vpopmail) that has commands which, when called, request input ("email address", "password", etc.) from the command line. I would like to build a TTW interface for my clients t... 25 Apr 2010 14:23

Need help with basic DOM XML tree traversing
Barak, Ron, 25.04.2010 17:06: This is my first try at XML with Python, and though I tried to read on the web, I'm unable to traverse a DOM tree, as my top element seems to be DOCUMENT_NODE and I cannot find a way to get to the nodes below it. You might find the xml.etree.ElementTree package a lot easier to work w... 26 Apr 2010 10:14

[ANN] pyjamas 0.7 released
pyjamas - the stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler, and separate GUI Widget Toolkit, has its 0.7 release, today. this has been much delayed, in order to allow the community plenty of time between the 0.7pre2 release and the final release, to review and test all the examples. pyjamas allows developers to cr... 25 Apr 2010 09:53

Fix bugs without breaking down existing code
Say, a Standard Library function works in a way it was not supposed to. Developers (who use Python) handle this issue themselves. And then, you (a python-core developer) fix the behavior of the function. Although you have “fixed” the bug, anyone who upgrades, will be in trouble. Their code may no longer work... 25 Apr 2010 11:00