Python

[ANN] Pyspread 0.0.14 released
Pyspread 0.0.14 released ======================== I am pleased to announce the new release 0.0.14 of pyspread. About: ------ Pyspread is a cross-platform Python spreadsheet application. It is based on and written in the programming language Python. Instead of spreadsheet formulas, Python expressions... 25 Jan 2010 10:31

Sikuli: the coolest Python project I have yet seen...
Sikuli is the coolest Python project I have ever seen in my ten year hobbyist career. An MIT oepn source project, Sikuli uses Python to automate GUI tasks (in any GUI or GUI baed app that runs the JVM) by simply drag and dropping GUI elements into Python scripts as function arguments. Download at http://sikuli.csai... 27 Jan 2010 04:50

easy_install error ...
All, I am running into issue with easy install error, see error below: python setup.py easy_install -m 'docutils==0.4' running easy_install error: Not a URL, existing file, or requirement spec: "'docutils==0.4'" any idea as to why? thanks. ... 26 Jan 2010 00:02

[ANN] Python 2.5.5 Release Candidate 2.
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release candidate 2 of Python 2.5.5. This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of ... 24 Jan 2010 15:49

Splitting text at whitespace but keeping the whitespace in the returned list
MRAB, "MRAB" <python(a)mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: import re re.split(r'(\s+)', "Hello world!") ['Hello', ' ', 'world!'] That was exactly (EXACTLY!) the solution I was looking for. Thank you! Malcolm ... 24 Jan 2010 13:34

PS.
24-01-2010, 16:56:42 Jan Kaliszewski <zuo(a)chopin.edu.pl> wrote: 24-01-2010, 16:28:26 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca> wrote once again, probably a trivial question but i googled and didn't get an obvious solution. how to list the attributes of a *class*? dir(type(an_obj)) or ... 24 Jan 2010 11:18

Default path for files
Hi all, can anybody tell me whether there's a way to change the default location for files to be opened by open()? I'd like to be able to create files somewhere other than my Python folder without having to write the full path in the filename every time. Sorry if this is a stupid question, I don't know much abo... 2 Feb 2010 15:01

ctypes for AIX
I need to use ctypes with python running on AIX. It appears that python is being developed mostly for windows. Is there a policy concerning getting functions like ctypes working on AIX. Jim Waddle KIT-D 425-785-5194 ... 27 Jan 2010 11:28

image processing - inverse filtering
Hi, If I am using scipy.ndimage.gaussian_filter() for filtering an image, how to do the inverse filtering? In general how to do this using scipy.ndimage? Thanks suresh ... 2 Feb 2010 15:01

ISO module for binomial coefficients, etc.
Before I go off to re-invent a thoroughly invented wheel, I thought I'd ask around for some existing module for computing binomial coefficient, hypergeometric coefficients, and other factorial-based combinatorial indices. I'm looking for something that can handle fairly large factorials (on the order of 10000!... 27 Jan 2010 23:53