Re: Dispatch('Excel.Application') on Vista from Task Scheduler

2008-11-09 Thread Larry Bates
Cupric wrote: I have a python script that runs fine from the command line or from within IDLE, but doesn't work through the Vista Task Scheduler. The script downloads some csv files and then uses pywin32 to combine the csv files into a single document. When I run it through the task scheduler,

Re: Looking for a nitty-gritty Python Ajax middleware script to fire off a number of processors

2008-11-09 Thread Larry Bates
Shao wrote: Dear All, I am looking for a nitty-gritty Python Ajax script to fire off a number of processing programmes, periodically checking their operations, sending messages back to an HTML div form by sending back the links of generated data files, to be downloaded by end users. I am using

Re: Does Python have Multiple Inheritance ?

2008-11-09 Thread Larry Bates
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Holden wrote: Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michele Simionato wrote: On Nov 7, 4:38 pm, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, though, although Python does indeed support multiple

Re: Python COM: Automatic wrap/unwrap?

2008-11-09 Thread Larry Bates
Greg Ewing wrote: I'm creating a COM server in Python that will have one main class, with methods that create and return instances of other classes. I've found that I need to use win32com.server.util.wrap and unwrap on these objects when they pass over a COM connection. This doesn't seem very

Re: More __init__ methods

2008-11-06 Thread Larry Bates
Mr.SpOOn wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While that's no bad thing, you don't really need to do that simply to understand these examples: they're just saying do whatever you need to to make these method class methods, not instance methods. Yes. I

Re: Is there a better/simpler way to filter blank lines?

2008-11-04 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tmallen: I'm parsing some text files, and I want to strip blank lines in the process. Is there a simpler way to do this than what I have here? lines = filter(lambda line: len(line.strip()) 0, lines) xlines = (line for line in open(filename) if line.strip()) Bye,

Re: How to get an object's name as a string?

2008-10-28 Thread Larry Bates
Shannon Mayne wrote: I would like to create objects with algorithmically determined names based on other object names and use object names for general algorithm input. How would one extract the name of an object from an object instance as a string. I would think that it is stored as an

Re: Need some advice

2008-10-24 Thread Larry Bates
alex23 wrote: On Oct 23, 3:15 pm, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno is correct, the protocol IS https, you don't type shttp into your browser get secure http connection. https[1] and shttp[2] are two entirely different protocols. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https [2] http

Re: Need some advice

2008-10-22 Thread Larry Bates
azrael wrote: I mean shttp. (secure hyper text transfer protocol) On Oct 22, 9:48 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: azrael a écrit : There have been some discutions with my partner about which protocol to use. We agreed to use also http. But we are looking for a

Re: socket programming (client-server)

2008-10-22 Thread Larry Bates
ryan wrote: i have implemented a small client server model to do file transfer over a LAN network. It work with some machines on the network and on others it doesnt. when i run the server.py file in some machine then it pops up a windows security alert. The message is as follows: Do you

Re: which program I need for sftp using pramiko??

2008-10-22 Thread Larry Bates
sa6113 wrote: which program I have to install for using paramiko for sftp between a two windows machine in local network?? I have installed freeSSHd for server machine but I got an Authentication failed erro when try to connect to server using this code : sock.connect((hostname, port)) t =

Re: windows / unix path

2008-10-20 Thread Larry Bates
Marcin201 wrote: Is there an built-in functionality in python to convert Windows paths to Unix paths? I am running into problems when creating data files on Windows and the running them on a Unix platform. I create paths using os.path.join. os.path.join('Pictures', '01.jpg') returns

Re: Creating single .exe file without py2exe and pyinstaller

2008-10-20 Thread Larry Bates
Tino Wildenhain wrote: Hi, Abah Joseph wrote: I have written a small application of about 40-45 lines which is about 4KB, so I want to create a single .exe file from it, using py2exe it created unnecessary files, that just increase the size of the program and also less portable to me. What

Re: quick newbie syntax question

2008-10-20 Thread Larry Bates
Robocop wrote: oops! Sorry about that, i should have just copied my code directly. I actually did specify an int in range: year = '2008' month = '09' limit = '31' for i in range(1,int(limit)): The code is currently failing due to the syntax in the filter, particularly the section date =

Re: Finding the instance reference of an object

2008-10-16 Thread Larry Bates
Astley Le Jasper wrote: Sorry for the numpty question ... How do you find the reference name of an object? So if i have this bob = modulename.objectname() how do i find that the name is 'bob' Short answer is that you can't. This because Python's names (bob) are bound to objects

Re: Finding the instance reference of an object

2008-10-16 Thread Larry Bates
Joe Strout wrote: On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Larry Bates wrote: how do i find that the name is 'bob' Short answer is that you can't. This because Python's names (bob) are bound to objects (modulename.objectname()). They are NOT variables as they are in other programming languages

del and sets proposal

2008-10-02 Thread Larry Bates
You can do the following: a = [1,2,3,4,5] del a[0] and a = {1:'1', 2: '2', 3: '3', 4:'4', 5:'5'} del a[1] why doesn't it work the same for sets (particularly since sets are based on a dictionary)? a = set([1,2,3,4,5]) del a[1] Yes I know that sets have a remove method (like lists), but

Re: del and sets proposal

2008-10-02 Thread Larry Bates
Chris Hebert wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can do the following: a = [1,2,3,4,5] del a[0] and a = {1:'1', 2: '2', 3: '3', 4:'4', 5:'5'} del a[1] why doesn't it work the same for sets (particularly since sets are based on a dictionary

Re: How to send Data Transfer Objects across the network?

2008-10-02 Thread Larry Bates
Daniel wrote: Hello, I've been building a system that has need to send object data across the network. The approach I've taken has been to build Data Transfer Objects, which just contain the attributes of the objects, and to pickle them and send them over a socket connection. As I get deeper

Re: questions from a lost sheep

2008-10-02 Thread Larry Bates
johannes raggam wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe I've started to think fondly of the rock-solid stability of Python, Joe and have been wondering if perhaps aggressive unit testing could Joe mitigate most of the problems of weak typing. Note:

Re: using SSh problem!

2008-10-02 Thread Larry Bates
sa6113 wrote: I want to connect form a windows machine to a Linux one using SSH (I use Paramiko) and simply copy a file to Linux machine. Would you please help me how should I start? Is there any useful code? I find that one of the easiest ways of doing this is to install Cygwin on the windows

Re: writing dll in python?

2008-09-30 Thread Larry Bates
nishalrs wrote: Hello All, My main motivation is to build a collection of useful mathematical models (that I have developed over the years) to design ultrasonic sensors. This should be some sort of a library that should be able to be used for desktop/web application development, to run in

Re: Making small executive file for distribution

2008-09-24 Thread Larry Bates
Marin Brkic wrote: Not commercial distribution, but an academic kind of sorts - giving the exe file to coleagues, so they can use it in their work. Giving .py file is not an option, since due to centralized computer maintenance, they don't (and cannot) have installed python (except the ones that

Re: Python style: exceptions vs. sys.exit()

2008-09-23 Thread Larry Bates
Drake wrote: I have a general question of Python style, or perhaps just good programming practice. My group is developing a medium-sized library of general-purpose Python functions, some of which do I/O. Therefore it is possible for many of the library functions to raise IOError Exceptions. The

Re: new style classes, __new__, __init__

2008-09-16 Thread Larry Bates
Torsten Mohr wrote: Hi, i have some questions related to new style classes, they look quite useful but i wonder if somebody can give me an example on constructors using __new__ and on using __init__ ? I just see that when using it i can't give parameters to __new__ and when i additionally

Re: testing if another instance of a script is already running

2008-09-13 Thread Larry Bates
Strato wrote: Hi folks, I want to write some kind of test to check at startup if another instance of my script is already running. I don't want to handle writing of a PID file because it is too Unix/Linux specific way to do this, and I need to keep the code to be cross-platform. I think

Re: testing if another instance of a script is already running

2008-09-13 Thread Larry Bates
Strato wrote: Hi folks, I want to write some kind of test to check at startup if another instance of my script is already running. I don't want to handle writing of a PID file because it is too Unix/Linux specific way to do this, and I need to keep the code to be cross-platform. I think

Re: code style and readability [was: Re: Checking the boolean value of a collection]

2008-09-13 Thread Larry Bates
Marco Bizzarri wrote: On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco Bizzarri wrote: class FolderInUse: def true_for(self, archivefolder): return any([instance.forbid_to_close(archivefolder) for instance in

Re: code style and readability [was: Re: Checking the boolean value of a collection]

2008-09-13 Thread Larry Bates
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: Bruno Desthuilliers a écrit : Larry Bates a écrit : (snip) IMHO it reads better if you use the __call__ method of the class to return the value IMHO, it makes no sense at all to abuse the __call__ magic method here. Sorry - after a more careful re-read of other

Re: creating an (inefficent) alternating regular expression from a list of options

2008-09-09 Thread Larry Bates
metaperl.com wrote: Pyparsing has a really nice feature that I want in PLY. I want to specify a list of strings and have them converted to a regular expression. A Perl module which does an aggressively optimizing job of this is Regexp::List -

Re: dynamic allocation file buffer

2008-09-09 Thread Larry Bates
castironpi wrote: I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a cool idea that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit from. What are its flaws? A user has a file he is using either 1/ to

Re: wxpython ms-dos black window popping up in background

2008-09-09 Thread Larry Bates
icarus wrote: Oh ok. Thanks. In windows xp I just renamed the file extension to .pyw That did it. one more question... how do I create a pythonw standalone executable that works on w32, linux, mac, etc..? My intent is to have the process transparent to the user. He wouldn't even know the app

Re: Access to Windows Add/Remove Programs?

2008-09-03 Thread Larry Bates
Sean DiZazzo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to find a way to get a list of all the installed programs on a Windows box via Python. I thought of a few hacks that might partially work, and then thought about Add/Remove Programs Seems like the right way to go. I looked over the pywin32 docs a bit,

Re: Submitting forms over HTTPS with mechanize

2008-09-03 Thread Larry Bates
Rex wrote: Hello, I am working on an academic research project where I need to log in to a website (www.lexis.com) over HTTPS and execute a bunch of queries to gather a data set. I just discovered the mechanize module, which seems great because it's a high-level tool. However, I can't find any

Re: Fastest way to write huge files

2008-08-30 Thread Larry Bates
Mohamed Yousef wrote: Thanks all , but there is still something i forget to state -sorry - all communication will be via Http with a server so data is received via Http so local network solutions won't work the problem really starts after receiving data in storing them without much of a

Re: microsoft terminal server

2008-08-30 Thread Larry Bates
Tim Golden wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, i would like to know if there is a way to create a python script for automate mstsc.exe username and pwd credential, i mean i would create a script that first open mstsc.exe and in the same time is able to fill [computer+username+pwd]. Haven't

Re: How to check is something is a list or a dictionary or a string?

2008-08-30 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How to check if something is a list or a dictionary or just a string? Eg: for item in self.__libVerDict.itervalues(): self.cbAnalysisLibVersion(END, item) where __libVerDict is a dictionary that holds values as strings or lists. So now, when I iterate

Re: Ensure only single application instance.

2008-08-30 Thread Larry Bates
Cameron Laird wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Uberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Heston James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon all. I have an application/script which is launched by crontab on a regular basis. I need an effective and accurate way to

Re: Fastest way to write huge files

2008-08-30 Thread Larry Bates
Mohamed Yousef wrote: If connection is over Internet via HTTP the connection speed is so slow in relation to the speed of your CPU that it doesn't really matter. this is not always true , espicially when using a localhost or a local netwtork server the problem is the increase in cpu and memory

Re: JSON from Python mysqldb

2008-08-26 Thread Larry Bates
jpuopolo wrote: All: I am using Python to read some records from the MySQL database. I am using the mysqldb library, and things are working well. Now, I would like to pass back the results of the query to a Web-based front end, and I would like to use JSON. Is there a library/example of

Re: 'While' question

2008-08-21 Thread Larry Bates
Ben Keshet wrote: Thanks for the reference. I tried it with a general example and got it to work - I used an index that counts up to a threshold that is set to break. It does not work though with my real code. I suspect this is because I cannot really read any lines from an empty file, so

Re: how to add property dynamically?

2008-08-17 Thread Larry Bates
akonsu wrote: hello, i need to add properties to instances dynamically during run time. this is because their names are determined by the database contents. so far i found a way to add methods on demand: class A(object) : def __getattr__(self, name) : if name == 'test' :

Re: for y in range (0,iNumItems)-- not in order?

2008-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
korean_dave wrote: for y in range(0,iNumItems): print(str(y)) How do i make the output go IN ORDER 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 etc. instead of 0 1 10 11 12 13 14 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 That's not what it does on my system (Python 2.5.2 on Windows). Please post the code that you are actually running. for y

Re: i want to control python using keyboard

2008-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i want to play alarm sound when i press a particular key in keyboard.so someone help me in doing it. Thanks and Regards Sasil.G When you post to this list you need to give us more to go on than you have. 1) What have you tried that doesn't work? 2) What type of

Re: Factory for Struct-like classes

2008-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
eliben wrote: Hello, I want to be able to do something like this: Employee = Struct(name, salary) And then: john = Employee('john doe', 34000) print john.salary Basically, Employee = Struct(name, salary) should be equivalent to: class Employee(object): def __init__(self, name, salary):

Re: ActiveState Python v2.5 doesn't come with Tkinter or Tk installed.

2008-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
Dudeja, Rajat wrote: Hi, So, now I've finally started using Eclipse and PyDev as an IDE for my GUI Application. I just wrote some sample programs as an hands on. Now I would like to take up Tkinter. I'm using Active State Python version 2.5 and found that there is not Tkinter and Tk module in

Re: Getting stdout using ctypes.

2008-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
Mathias Lorente wrote: Hello all. I have a simple application (C++) that relies on shared libraries. It works fine in console mode. Lot of job is done into the shared library, so there is some calls to 'std::cout' to inform the user in it. Now, I would like to wrap everything into a GUI,

Re: Fixed-length text file to database script

2008-08-14 Thread Larry Bates
Michael Ströder wrote: Larry Bates wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a machine (PLC) that is dumping its test results into a fixed- length text file. I need to pull this data into a database (MySQL most likely) so that I can access it with Crystal Reports to create daily reports for my

Re: newb loop problem

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Bates
+=offSet stopCnt+=offSet print hitLst Beers, Dave On Aug 13, 12:58 am, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 13, 12:35 am, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave wrote: Hey there, having a bit of problem iterating through lists before i go on any further, here is a snip

Re: win32service and Python

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Bates
David wrote: I am collecting informations about win32 services for Python but, except for few basic examples about Mark Hammond's win32serviceutil, I found nothing useful. Any link is welcome. Thank you. David Actually those examples in Python for Win32 book are quite good and basically all

Re: callbacks in python

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Bates
Alexandru Mosoi wrote: does anyone know a nice implementation of callbacks in python? i have issues mixing named unamed parameters. i want build a callback over a function such that some parameters are passed when callback is created and the rest are passed when the function is called.

Re: callbacks in python

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Bates
Alexandru Mosoi wrote: On Aug 14, 12:02 am, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: your use of the word callback is a bit unusual, and your example isn't valid Python code, but it looks as if functools.partial might be what you need: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-functools.html my

Re: Fixed-length text file to database script

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I'm new to Python (mostly) and I'm wanting to use it for a new project I'm faced with. I have a machine (PLC) that is dumping its test results into a fixed- length text file. I need to pull this data into a database (MySQL most likely) so that I can access it

Re: Checking a file's time stamp.

2008-08-12 Thread Larry Bates
Christian Heimes wrote: William Purcell wrote: Hi all, I am wanting to check to see the last time a file was edited. For example, I have a directory containing two text files, file1.txt and file2.txt. I want to be able to process these files but only if they have been edited since the last

Re: newb loop problem

2008-08-12 Thread Larry Bates
Dave wrote: Hey there, having a bit of problem iterating through lists before i go on any further, here is a snip of the script. -- d = a1 b1 c1 d1 e1 a2 b2 c2 d2 e2 a3 b3 c3 d3 e3 a4 b4 c4 d4 e4 a5 b5 c5 d5 e5 inLst = d.split() hitLst = [] hitNum = 0 stopCnt = 6 + hitNum for i in

Re: Random Problems

2008-08-12 Thread Larry Bates
Lanny wrote: Well the othe day I was making a program to make a list of all the songs in certian directorys but I got a problem, only one of the directorys was added to the list. Heres my code: import random import os import glob songs = glob.glob('C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My

Re: Large production environments using ZODB/ZOE?

2008-08-09 Thread Larry Bates
Phillip B Oldham wrote: I've been reading a lot recently on ZODB/ZOE, but I've not seen any reference to its use in large-scale production envrironments. Are there any real-world examples of ZODB/ZOE in use for a large system? By large, I'm thinking in terms of both horizontally-scaled systems

Re: Ascii to binary conversion

2008-08-09 Thread Larry Bates
azrael wrote: looks nice. is there an oposite function of ord() so I could also bring a binary number also back to ascii. the speed matters if you plan to exchange about 10 M ascii chars and don't wont to wait a year for the results. :) On 9 kol, 15:39, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Extract string from log file

2008-08-09 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 203.114.10.66 - - [01/Aug/2008:05:41:21 +0300] GET /stat.gif? stat=vc=F-Securev=1.1%20Build%2014231s=av%7BNorton %20360%20%28Symantec%20Corporation%29+69%3B%7Dsw%7BNorton %20360%20%28Symantec%20Corporation%29+69%3B%7Dfw%7BNorton

Re: Using two pythons in an application

2008-08-04 Thread Larry Bates
Allen wrote: Larry Bates wrote: Allen wrote: I'm in the process of developing an application that will use Python for a scripting support. In light of the upcoming changes to Python, I was wondering if it is possible to link to and use two different versions of Python so that in the future

Re: import * and py2exe

2008-08-04 Thread Larry Bates
Paul Sijben wrote: I am trying to turn my application into a WinXP exe. Py2exe has packaged all my files up into one humongous executable. When trying to run the app, it complains that it can not find modules I just saw it include. These invariably are modules that have been imported using

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread Larry Bates
iu2 wrote: Hi, This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing writing small scripts. I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have seen a bunch

Re: Trying to fix Invalid CSV File

2008-08-04 Thread Larry Bates
Ryan Rosario wrote: On Aug 4, 8:30 am, Emile van Sebille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Machin wrote: On Aug 4, 6:15 pm, Ryan Rosario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 4, 1:01 am, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 4, 5:49 pm, Ryan Rosario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Emile! Works

Re: Decimals not equalling themselves (e.g. 0.2 = 0.2000000001)

2008-08-03 Thread Larry Bates
CNiall wrote: I am very new to Python (I started learning it just yesterday), but I have encountered a problem. I want to make a simple script that calculates the n-th root of a given number (e.g. 4th root of 625--obviously five, but it's just an example :P), and because there is no nth-root

Re: Using two pythons in an application

2008-08-03 Thread Larry Bates
Allen wrote: I'm in the process of developing an application that will use Python for a scripting support. In light of the upcoming changes to Python, I was wondering if it is possible to link to and use two different versions of Python so that in the future, scripts could be migrated to the

Re: from Tkinter import *,win = Tk() from Tkinter import *

2008-08-03 Thread Larry Bates
Pierre Dagenais wrote: from Tkinter import * win = Tk() If I type those two lines at the command prompt (in WindowsXP) I get a new window on my screen. Yet if I copy those lines in a file called test.py and then run python test.py at the command prompt I am returned to the command prompt

Re: Searching for some kind of data type

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Bates
Giampaolo Rodola' wrote: Hi, for an FTP server I wrote I'd need to group the FTP commands in one table that defines the command itself, the syntax string, required permission, whether it requires authorization, whether it takes argument and whether there's a need to validate the path from the

Re: I donä't get while-loops

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Bates
ssecorp wrote: in read2 it never quits when I write quit, why? def read(): expr = raw_input(Lisp ) if expr != quit: print parse(expr) read() else: print Good session! def read2(): expr = while expr != quit: expr = raw_input(Lisp )

Re: raw_input on several lines

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Bates
TP wrote: Hi everybody, When using raw_input(), the input of the user ends when he types Return on his keyboard. How can I change this behavior, so that another action is needed to stop the input? For example, CTRL-G. It would allow the user to input several lines. Thanks Julien Just put

Re: static variables in Python?

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Bates
kj wrote: Yet another noob question... Is there a way to mimic C's static variables in Python? Or something like it? The idea is to equip a given function with a set of constants that belong only to it, so as not to clutter the global namespace with variables that are not needed elsewhere.

Re: Python COM

2008-07-29 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have implemented a COM in C++,buy i don't know how to use this COM in python. For example: the COM's ProgID is MyCOM1.AdvMethod.this COM have two interfaces,the default interface's name is IAdvMethod,the second interface's name is IBasicMethod. How do i use those

Re: We programming

2008-07-28 Thread Larry Bates
srinivasan srinivas wrote: Hi, Could someone suggest me better python modules for developing web programming related projects like web-pages download and uopload?? Thanks, Srini Explore your hobbies and interests. Go to http://in.promos.yahoo.com/groups/ urllib, urllib2, httplib All

Re: Suggestions for creating a PDF table

2008-07-28 Thread Larry Bates
Kirk Strauser wrote: Short question: Is there a good library for generating HTML-style tables with the equivalent of colspans, automatically sized columns, etc. that can render directly to PDF? Longer question: I'm re-doing a big chunk of locally-written code. I have a report-generating

Re: Where is the correct round() method?

2008-07-27 Thread Larry Bates
josh logan wrote: Hello, I need a round function that _always_ rounds to the higher integer if the argument is equidistant between two integers. In Python 3.0, this is not the advertised behavior of the built-in function round() as seen below: round(0.5) 0 round(1.5) 2 round(2.5) 2 I

Re: write unsigned integer 32 bits to socket

2008-07-27 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i want to send unsigned 32 bit integer to socket, and looking for something equivalent to this method... http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/net/Socket.html#writeUnsignedInt() is there such method / library available in python?! this is as far as i have

Re: write unsigned integer 32 bits to socket

2008-07-27 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to send unsigned 32 bit integer to socket, and looking for something equivalent to this method... http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/langref/flash/net/Socket.html

Re: Stripping parts of a path

2008-07-26 Thread Larry Bates
Tim Cook wrote: Hi All, I just ran into an issue with the rstrip method when using it on path strings. When executing a function I have a need to strip off a portion of the current working directory and add on a path to a log file. Initially this worked great but then I added a branch in SVN

Re: object persistency, store instances relationship externally

2008-07-25 Thread Larry Bates
King wrote: This is a new test for object persistency. I am trying to store the relationship between instances externally. It's not working as expected. May be I am doing it in wrong way. Any suggestions? import shelve class attrib(object): pass class node(object): def

Re: os.walk question

2008-07-23 Thread Larry Bates
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Lanny wrote: How would one make a list of the files in the top directory using os.walk. I need to pick a random file from said list. if you want a list of files from a single directory, use listdir, not walk: import os, random random.choice(os.listdir(/))

Re: Authentication for XML-RPC Calls

2008-07-22 Thread Larry Bates
whitemice wrote: The only documentation regarding doing authentication for XML-RPC I can find is - Both the HTTP and HTTPS transports support the URL syntax extension for HTTP Basic Authentication: http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/path. The user:pass portion will be base64-encoded as an HTTP

Re: Iterating Through List or Tuple

2008-07-22 Thread Larry Bates
Samir wrote: Is there a way to loop or iterate through a list/tuple in such a way that when you reach the end, you start over at the beginning? For example, suppose I define a list daysOfWeek such that: daysOfWeek = ['sunday', 'monday', 'tuesday', 'wednesday', 'thursday', 'friday',

Re: How do I compare files?

2008-07-22 Thread Larry Bates
Clay Hobbs wrote: I am making a program that (with urllib) that downloads two jpeg files and, if they are different, displays the new one. I need to find a way to compare two files in Python. How is this done? -- Ratfink Use md5 to calculate checksum: import md5 md5file1 =

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-22 Thread Larry Bates
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-07-22, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-07-22, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You talk about writing it in assembly language for each MPU chip. Actually it is even better than that. We now have these modern inventions

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-22 Thread Larry Bates
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:12:54 +0200, mk wrote: Seriously, though, would there be any advantage in re-implementing Python in e.g. C++? Not that current implementation is bad, anything but, but if you're not careful, the fact that lists are implemented as C

Re: Trying to solve a python/mechanize error 500 http error

2008-07-21 Thread Larry Bates
bruce wrote: i'm getting the following error: mechanize._response.httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 500: i'm running python 5.1 and mechanize 0.1.7b I have no idea as to what I have to change/modify/include to handle this issue. The link that I'm testing is at the bottom of the page.

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-21 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just learning about Python now and it sounds interesting. But I just read (on the Wiki page) that mainstream Python was written in C. That's what I was searching for: Python was written in what other language? See, my concern was something like: OK, if Python is so

Re: Website Creation using Python

2008-07-21 Thread Larry Bates
Amie wrote: Afternoon, I would like some help on how to create a website using the python programming language. I've tried using enamel, but had some problems because I could not create html tables and intergrating it with python, like you use it when coding in php. Any help would be

Re: create instance attributes for every method argument

2008-07-19 Thread Larry Bates
Berco Beute wrote: I remember reading somewhere how to create an instance attribute for every method argument, but although Google is my friend, I can't seem to find it. This could likely be done way more elegant: = class Test(object): def __init__(self, a, b, c, d,

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-16 Thread Larry Bates
Ben Sizer wrote: Although the standard library in Python is great, there are undoubtedly some great packages available from 3rd parties, and I've encountered a few almost by accident. However, I don't know how a user would become aware of many of these. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ presumably

Re: Framework recommendations for web service?

2008-07-16 Thread Larry Bates
Phillip B Oldham wrote: We're looking at the next phase of development for our webapp, and the main focus will be to move the core from the app to a web service so other systems can use the data we've gathered (we're thinking along the lines of the XML API of Highrise from 37Signals). Its

Re: py2exe issues with pictures and icons

2008-07-16 Thread Larry Bates
Alexnb wrote: Hello I am sure most of you are familiar with py2exe. I am having a bit of a problem. See the program has a few pictures involved and the .ico it uses for the windows. However, the pictures are stored in the same directory as the source, something like: C:\Docs and settings\me\My

Re: logging via SocketHandler and TCPserver

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
Vinay Sajip wrote: On Jul 14, 11:16 pm, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vinay, Thanks for your detailed explanation, but IMHO your suggested solution is almost the opposite (right idea wrong direction) of what I'm looking for. Hypothetical setup: application1

Re: Python internals

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
Peter Anderson wrote: Hi! I am slowly teaching myself Python. I was reading David Beazley's excellent book Python - Essential Reference; in particular about variables. Let me quote: Python is a dynamically typed language in which names can represent values of different types during the

Re: 'if name is not None:' v. 'if name:'

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
Victor Noagbodji wrote: Hello, what's the difference between these two statement? And which one should one use? if name ... Will be false if: name is an integer == 0 name is a float == 0 name is an empty string name is an empty list name is an empty dictionary There are others, but you

Re: graphing lifelines

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman wrote: (crossposted to sci.math) I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating the year of birth and death of a person: (1872, 1950, Sri Aurobindo) (1821, 1910, Mary Baker Eddy) (1831, 1891, HP. Blavatksy) And graph them out, in bars,

Re: logging via SocketHandler and TCPserver

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
Rob Wolfe wrote: Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can multiple applications send SocketHandler logging records to the same socket server on the same port simultaneously? Of course they can. Server can accept requests from many clients. You have used `SocketServer.ThreadingTCPServer

Re: Testing for connection to a website

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
Alexnb wrote: Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific website. Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do urlopen() and and am not connected, the program stops. So I don't know if

Re: How to figure out if the platform is 32bit or 64bit?

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to know if I'm running on 32bit or 64bit ... so far I haven't come up with how to get this info via python. sys.platform returns what python was built on ... but not what the current system is. I thought platform.uname() or just platform.processor() would have

Re: Python internals

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
Ben Finney wrote: Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Names are pointers in Python that point to values in memory. The term pointer carries much extra baggage for a programmer thinking of C (as the original poster is). Python names give no access to the address of the value, and don't need

Re: Modify a string's value

2008-07-15 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I've heard that a 'str' object is immutable. But is there *any* way to modify a string's internal value? Thanks, Sebastian Why would you care? Just create a new string (with the changed contents) and let garbage collection take care of the old one when

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