Python

Building a GUI Toolkit
Hi I was thinking of writing a GUI toolkit from scratch using a basic '2D library'. I have already come across the Widget Construction Kit. My main question is: Could I build a GUI toolkit of reasonable performance with the Widget Construction Kit, would it still feel more or less lightweight? By reasonable... 23 Apr 2010 17:31

email and unicode
I have a script that extracts attachments from all emails in a mbox (largely based on http://code.activestate.com/recipes/302086-strip-attachments-from-an-email-message/; thanks ActiveState). It works fine until it encounters an attachment with a unicode file name (Ukrainian in my case). I cannot get working the l... 18 Apr 2010 08:38

Call for Paper/Participation for Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010
Call for Paper/Participation for Malaysia Open Source Conference 2010 http://conf.oss.my/cfp.html “OSS Towards Malaysia As A Developed Country In 2020” Area of Interest Cloud Computing Computer Security Games development Mobile Computing Data Freedom Ham Radio With the theme "OSS Towards Malaysia As A... 18 Apr 2010 04:15

Python at BerkeleyTIP-Global meeting on Sunday April 18 12N-3P,& April 27
Come discuss python. :) Join via VOIP or come to Berkeley http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/voice-voip-conferencing FSCafe at Moffitt at UCBerkeley, opens 1pm, but can connect from outside at 12N. Hot topics: Ubuntu 10.04, Free Culuture, VOIP, Set up the web server & mail list & asterisk/freeswitch on th... 18 Apr 2010 04:14

Usable street address parser in Python?
Is there a usable street address parser available? There are some bad ones out there, but nothing good that I've found other than commercial products with large databases. I don't need 100% accuracy, but I'd like to be able to extract street name and street number for at least 98% of US mailing addresses. ... 23 Apr 2010 20:49

Python Learning Environment
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Vijay Shanker Dubey <vijay.shad(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, My Linux box is ubuntu system. I want to create a development environment on my system for python programing language. I got to see there are two versions of python language 1. python 2.5.6 2. python 3.1.2 To fi... 17 Apr 2010 14:06

Can someone please make it more pythonic or better?
Greetings Python superstars, I've a directory structure like following tests / __init__.py testfile.py testfile.py contains following code import unittest class Calculator(unittest.TestCase): def test_add(self): print 'just add' def test_divide(self): print 'diviide' ... 20 Apr 2010 15:49

Calling a class method
I have the following script: class TTT(object): def duplica(self): self.data *= 2 def __init__(self, data): self.data = data TTT.duplica(self.data) def __str__(self): return str(self.data) print obj=TTT(7) print obj And I want 14 printed (twice 7) I got t... 17 Apr 2010 10:45

when should I explicitly close a file?
In message <d48b70da-5384-4dc6-9527-46c6b735ccc0(a)r1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, gelonida wrote: I've been told, that following code snippet is not good. open("myfile","w").write(astring) ... I do that for reads, but never for writes. For writes, you want to give a chance for write errors to raise a... 27 Apr 2010 06:30

class instance customization
Hi, list. I've some nontrivial class implementation MyClass and its instance my: my = MyClass(args) MyClass uses in internals some variable which is not defined in MyClass itself. I want to extend instance of MyClass at runtime defining this variable and making new instance. It is like a class inheritance in... 20 Apr 2010 15:49