Python

Is there any way to minimize str()/unicode() objects memoryusage [Python 2.6.4] ?
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:45:31 -0700, dmtr wrote: I'm running into some performance / memory bottlenecks on large lists. Is there any easy way to minimize/optimize memory usage? Yes, lots of ways. For example, do you *need* large lists? Often a better design is to use generators and iterators to lazily gener... 6 Aug 2010 21:28

Is there any way to minimize str()/unicode() objects memory usage [Python 2.6.4] ?
I'm running into some performance / memory bottlenecks on large lists. Is there any easy way to minimize/optimize memory usage? Simple str() and unicode objects() [Python 2.6.4/Linux/x86]: sys.getsizeof('') 24 bytes sys.getsizeof('0') 25 bytes sys.getsizeof(u'') 28 bytes sys.getsizeof... 7 Aug 2010 05:02

Microsoft lessening commitment to IronPython and IronRuby
There is a blog post from Jimmy Schementi who previously worked at Microsoft on IronRuby about the state of dynamic language work there. http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2010/08/start-spreading-news-future-of-jimmy.html Neil ... 11 Aug 2010 20:14

How to implement a pipeline...??? Please help
Hi guys In the development of my ADC project i have a new new challenge. First i need to implement a 10 Bit pipelineADC that will be the basis to later implement any kind of pipeline arquitecture (i mean, with 10 Bit, 16 Bit or any other configuration i want) i wish to... What's a 10 Bit pipiline ADC? T... 10 Aug 2010 22:26

HL7 v3 (XML) importer
an HL7 v2 importer was written by john paulett, and it has been enhanced to support some of the HL7 v3 standard, which is XML-based. no dependencies are required: xml.sax is used so as to reduce the dependencies to purely python. additionally, as HL7 has versions/revisions, published data specifications were pul... 6 Aug 2010 18:11

Perl -> Python unpack
Hey all, Quick question for you Python enthusiasts that also happen to know Perl quite well... What does a* or A* translate to in Python when unpacking binary data with struct.unpack(...) ? cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" ... 8 Aug 2010 18:54

python interview quuestions
On 08/06/2010 10:44 AM, prakash jp wrote: Hi all, I would like to aquint myself with Python Interview questions . I am a Python Scripter, so if u could orient the pointers in the same direction it would be very handy Regards Huh??? ... 13 Aug 2010 13:34

Smith-Waterman Algorithm in Python
Hi, Does any one about any implementation of classical Smith Waterman local alignment algorithm and it's variants for aligning natural language text? thanks ... 9 Aug 2010 05:44

How to read large amounts of output via popen
Ok, thats great. Thanks for the very elegant solution(s) On 6 Aug, 13:44, Nobody <nob...(a)nowhere.com> wrote: On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:06:29 -0700, loial wrote: I need to read a large amount of data that is being returned in standard output by a shell script I am calling. (I think the script ... 6 Aug 2010 11:33

Need help from someone that have PIL installed
Can please someone run this little script that should output characters like ���� in an image. If it does it correctly can you tell me what OS, python version & PIL version you have? Or better if someone can tell me why this is not working properly on my PC? (Win XP, PIL 1.1.6., Python 2.6...) I don't recive a... 7 Aug 2010 06:06