Python

Generic spreadsheet interface
I've currently got an Excel spreadsheet with loads of VBA, and I've been thinking of porting it to OpenOffice.org. "This is a Python list!" I hear you cry, but bear with me - rather than just re-writing all the VBA code in OOo script, I thought, "why not make it generic - so it can work with Excel or OOo?" - then I... 12 Feb 2010 12:18

Creating formatted output using picture strings
python(a)bdurham.com wrote: Does Python provide a way to format a string according to a 'picture' format? For example, if I have a string '123456789' and want it formatted like '(123)-45-(678)[9]', is there a module or function that will allow me to do this or do I need to code this type of transf... 10 Feb 2010 17:56

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Personal criticisms and logical fallacies
* Ben Finney: Steven D'Aprano <steve(a)REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> writes: An ad hominem attack is not when somebody makes a criticism of you personally. It is when somebody says something along the lines of "Don't pay any attention to Alf, he doesn't know what he's talking about, he's a <whate... 10 Feb 2010 12:14

I've built Python, but can't figure out how to package it forwindows
En Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55:30 -0300, Mark Jones <mark0978(a)gmail.com> escribi�: Python 2.6.4 is built, and I found a bdist_wininst project and wininst-8 project. How do I manage to build the msi for this thing? See the Tools\msi directory; and look for some posts last year from Tim Golden regarding... 11 Feb 2010 05:00

Easter Eggs
I know 3 Python Easter Eggs, from __future__ import braces import this help( "antigravity" ) Are there more? Cheers, - Alf ... 25 Feb 2010 12:30

EAFP gone wrong
Hi all, Hi have a set of classes that represent mathematical objects which can be represented as a string using a 'latex' method (after Knuth's famous typesetting system). As I want to be able to typeset some builtin types as well, I have a generic function, latex(), as follows: def latex(val): try: ... 10 Feb 2010 03:24

shelve.open generates (22, 'Invalid argument') Os X 10.5 with Python 2.5
There is something you could possibly help me with. We have a code that creates a simple Python shelve database. We are able to serialize objects and store them in the dbm file. This seem to work the same on Windows XP Python 2.5, Ubuntu 9.1 with Python 2.6, but on Os X 10.5 with Python 2.5 the database filename ... 14 Feb 2010 14:01

Pycrypto RSA Issue
I am trying to encrypt public data along with another tuple and then decrypt it after sending. RSA is needed for negotiation of keys for AES. But I just get garbage after I decrypt it. This is what I'm attempting to do: from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA from Crypto import Random gkey = RSA.generate(384, Random... 9 Feb 2010 15:06

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