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python command line manual
I mainly check online python manual. But I feel that it would be nice if there is command line manual available (just like perl command line manual). Could you please let me know if such command line manual available? -- Regards, Peng ... 26 May 2010 11:20

Most reliable/pythonic way to tell if an instance comes from a class implemented in C/etc?
[Following up to Terry Reedy's post since I don't see the original] On May 24, 11:30 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...(a)udel.edu> wrote: On 5/24/2010 12:56 PM, Nathan Rice wrote: I'm trying to do some fairly deep introspection and instrumentation of instances and classes at runtime, and in order for everything... 24 May 2010 19:02

Question on Python Function
Dear Group, I have a small question on function. If I write two functions like the following: IDLE 2.6.5 def function1(n): element1=5 element2=6 add=element1+element2 print "PRINT THE ADDITION",add def function2(n): element3=7 element4=22 mult=element3*element4 print "PRINT TH... 27 May 2010 17:02

Most reliable/pythonic way to tell if an instance comes from a class implemented in C/etc?
Terry Reedy <tjreedy(a)udel.edu> wrote: Builtin classes, named or not, do not have dotted names 1 .__class__ <class 'int'> class C: pass I believe all others do, including C-coded extension classes. C().__class__ <class '__main__.C'> Not quite all. Classes created by ca... 24 May 2010 16:48

D-CM IDE
I'm developing an "IDE" in python (wxPython toolkit). it's an application that combines a file-manager,text-editor,sql-manager,ftp- manager and more in one simple to use GUI. I'm releasing a new version soon and I hoped that there were some folks in here that would like to test if it worked well.. It is a lin... 24 May 2010 15:41

Most reliable/pythonic way to tell if an instance comes froma class implemented in C/etc?
On 5/24/2010 12:56 PM, Nathan Rice wrote: I'm trying to do some fairly deep introspection and instrumentation of instances and classes at runtime, and in order for everything to be properly behaved I need to have radically different behavior in the event that the thing passed to me is a wrapped class/instan... 24 May 2010 14:33

extracting unicode text from pdfs
I have around 45 pdfs to convert into raw text containing text in _HINDI_ . When I use the xpdf package, the generated text is very weird, so I'd like to write a program which would convert the pdf text into Unicode text as it is. The fonts used in the pdfs: name type ... 24 May 2010 19:02

Can upper() or lower() ever change the length of a string?
Do unicode.lower() or unicode.upper() ever change the length of the string? The Unicode standard allows for case conversions that change length, e.g. sharp-S in German should convert to SS: http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html#6 but I see that Python doesn't do that: s = "Paßstraße" s.u... 24 May 2010 14:33

Email in 2.6.4
I am trying to run from email.mime.text import MIMEText but I get an ImportError: No module named mime.text Since email was pre-installed how do I fix this? Dirk ... 24 May 2010 11:12

logging: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'getLogger'
Simon Brunning <simon(a)brunningonline.net> writes: On 23 May 2010 14:46, Frank GOENNINGER <dg1sbg(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): �File "/.../src/pib/logging.py", line 37, in <module> � �main() Here's a clue - looks like your own module is called logging. That's what's... 24 May 2010 06:52