Sys.exit() does not fully exit

[Harlin Seritt]

I have this script:

import os, thread, threading, time, sys

class Script1(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
os.system('runScript1.py')

class Script2(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
os.system('runScript2.py')

if __name__ == '__main__':

s = Script1()
s.start()
time.sleep(5)

a = Script2()
a.start()
time.sleep(5)

while True:
answer = raw_input('Type x to shutdown: ')
if answer == 'x':
print 'Shutting down'
time.sleep(1)
print 'Done'
sys.exit(0)

When x is typed, everything does shut down but the main script never
fully ends. Is there any way to get it to quit?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt
-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pull Last 3 Months

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there a module that can pull str values for say the last 3 months?
Something like:


print lastMonths(3)

['Sep', 'Aug', 'Jul']

Thanks

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pull Last 3 Months

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there a module that can pull str values for say the last 3 months?
Something like:


print lastMonths(3)

['Sep', 'Aug', 'Jul']

Thanks

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Decimal formatting

[Harlin Seritt]

Cant believe I have to post this and get help... and can't believe I
couldnt Google it reasonably well enough... I need to take a float
variable and have it display as a string to always have two decimal
places:

12. - 12.33
1.0 - 1.00
etc...

Anyone willing to help with this one?

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to create a single executable of a Python program

[Harlin Seritt]

On Jul 25, 6:19 am, Graeme Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Jul 25, 8:34 am, NicolasG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Dear fellows,

  I'm trying to create a executable file using py2exe . Unfortunately
  along with the python executable file it also creates some other files
  that are needed in order to the executable be able to run in a system
  that doesn't have Python installed. Can some one guide me on how can I
  merge all this files created by py2exe in a single exe file ? If I
  have a python program that uses an image file I don't want this image
  file to be exposed in the folder but only to be accessible through the
  program flow..

  Regards,
  Nicolas.

 Have you taken a look at cx_Freeze? (http://python.net/crew/atuining/
 cx_Freeze/)http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t354325-singlefile-executables


If you're using py2exe (I'm assuming Win32 platform here), you can do
this but you'll have to read the documentation on how to include the
library.zip file into the exe. Also there are different levels where
the .exe file will include the .pyd files. Unfortunately though, you
will likely encounter errors doing it the more you try to condense.
If you can solve this problem, heck tell the guys at py2exe ;-) they
have been trying to solve this issue for some time now. If you're
doing it with Linux/Unix, cx_freeze is the only way i know to get this
done and even then it may have the same limitations. If you're trying
to hide/proprietize code, you may want to use pyobfuscate.

Good Luck

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python ODBC

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there a Python odbc module that will work on Linux? I have a jdbc
connection to a DB2 server. I am looking hopefully for an open source
solution and not a commercial one.

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Lame wrapper for Python

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there any type of lame_enc.dll wrapper for Python that's available?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Catching an unknown error

[Harlin Seritt]

Using the code below:

---BEGIN CODE---

value = raw_input(Type a divisor: )
try:
   value = int(value)
   print 42 / %d = %d % (value, 42/value)
except ValueError:
print I can't convert the value to an integer
except ZeroDivisionError:
print Your value should not be zero
except:
print Something unexpected happened

---END CODE---

In the last 'except' block, how can I print out the particular error
name even though one is not specifically named?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catching an unknown error

[Harlin Seritt]

On Mar 23, 9:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Mar 23, 8:16 am, Harlin Seritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



  Using the code below:

  ---BEGIN CODE---

  value = raw_input(Type a divisor: )
  try:
 value = int(value)
 print 42 / %d = %d % (value, 42/value)
  except ValueError:
  print I can't convert the value to an integer
  except ZeroDivisionError:
  print Your value should not be zero
  except:
  print Something unexpected happened

  ---END CODE---

  In the last 'except' block, how can I print out the particular error
  name even though one is not specifically named?

  Thanks,

  Harlin

 Thanks for pointing that out. I was following logic I was taught in
 Hetland's book, which supposedly was up-to-date for Python 2.4.
 Typical textbook error.

 Mike

Thanks guys... that gets 'er done.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Convert to binary and convert back to strings

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi...

I would like to take a string like 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius'
and write it to a file in binary forms -- this way a user cannot read
the string in case they were try to open in something like ascii text
editor. I'd also like to be able to read the binary formed data back
into string format so that it shows the original value. Is there any
way to do this in Python?

Thanks!

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert to binary and convert back to strings

[Harlin Seritt]

On Feb 21, 7:02 pm, Colin J. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Harlin Seritt wrote:
  Hi...

  I would like to take a string like 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius'
  and write it to a file in binary forms -- this way a user cannot read
  the string in case they were try to open in something like ascii text
  editor. I'd also like to be able to read the binary formed data back
  into string format so that it shows the original value. Is there any
  way to do this in Python?

  Thanks!

  Harlin

 Try opening your file in the 'wb' mode.

 Colin W.

Thanks for the help.

I tried doing this:

text = 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius'

open('sambleb.conf', 'wb').write(text)

Afterwards, I was able to successfully open the file with a text
editor and it showed:
'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius'

I am hoping to have it show up some weird un-readable text. And then
of course be able to convert it right back to a string. Is this even
possible?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Convert to binary and convert back to strings

[Harlin Seritt]

On Feb 21, 7:12 pm, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Harlin Seritt wrote:
  Hi...

  I would like to take a string like 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius'
  and write it to a file in binary forms -- this way a user cannot read
  the string in case they were try to open in something like ascii text
  editor. I'd also like to be able to read the binary formed data back
  into string format so that it shows the original value. Is there any
  way to do this in Python?

  Thanks!

  Harlin

 I promise you that everything written to a file is done in binary.
 Computers don't know how to work with anything BUT binary.  I think
 what you want to do is to encrypt/obstifucate the string.  For that
 you will need to encrypt the string, write it out, read it back in,
 and decrypt it.  If you want it to be REALLY strong use pyCrypto
 and something like AES-256.

 http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto

 If you just want to make it somewhat hard for someone to decypher
 you can do something like below (sorry I can't remember where I
 found this to attribute to someone):
 import random
 import zlib
 import time

 def tinycode(key, text, reverse=False):
 rand = random.Random(key).randrange
 if not reverse:
 text = zlib.compress(text)
 text = ''.join([chr(ord(elem)^rand(256)) for elem in text])
 if reverse:
 text = zlib.decompress(text)
 return text

 def strToHex(aString):
 hexlist = [%02X % ord(x) for x in aString]
 return ''.join(hexlist)

 def HexTostr(hString):
 res = 
 for i in range(len(hString)/2):
 realIdx = i*2
 res = res + chr(int(hString[realIdx:realIdx+2],16))
 return res

 if __name__ == __main__:

 keyStr = This is a key
 #testStr = which witch had which witches wrist watch abc def ghi

 testStr=time.strftime(%Y%m%d, time.localtime())

 print String:, testStr
 etestStr = tinycode(keyStr, testStr)
 print Encrypted string:, etestStr
 hex=strToHex(etestStr)
 print Hex: , hex
 print Len(hex):, len(hex)
 nonhex=HexTostr(hex)
 #testStr = tinycode(keyStr, etestStr, reverse=True)
 testStr = tinycode(keyStr, nonhex, reverse=True)
 print Decrypted string:, testStr

 WARNING: THIS IS NOT A STRONG ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM.  It is just a
 nuisance for someone that really wants to decrypt the string. But
 it might work for your application.

 -Larry

Thanks Larry! I was looking for something more beautiful but what the
hey, it works!

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Logging errors to a file

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there any way to automatically log errors that occur within an
executed script to a file?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Importing from upper directory

[Harlin Seritt]

I have a script that I want to import called upper.py. It is 2
directories above the script that will call it - i'll call that one
main.py. How am I able to import a script in a directory that is above
it?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Getting a class name

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi,

How does one get the name of a class from within the class code? I
tried something like this as a guess:

self.__name__

Obviously it didn't work.

Anyone know how to do that?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to determine what exceptions a method might raise?

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi Ed,

Generally checking the sources give a very good clue as to what
exceptions the interpreter can raise. Look around _builtins_ for this.

Harlin Seritt


Ed Jensen wrote:
 I'm really enjoying using the Python interactive interpreter to learn
 more about the language.  It's fantastic you can get method help right
 in there as well.  It saves a lot of time.

 With that in mind, is there an easy way in the interactive interpreter
 to determine which exceptions a method might raise?  For example, it
 would be handy if there was something I could do in the interactive
 interpreter to make it tell me what exceptions the file method might
 raise (such as IOError).
 
 Thanks in advance.

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: where is python on linux?

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi Frank,

Usually Python is installed in /usr/lib/python[VER] but you should be
able to call up /usr/bin/python without any difficulty.

Harlin Seritt


Frank Potter wrote:
 I installed fedora core 6 and it has python installed.
 But the question is, where is the executable python file?
 I can't find it so I come here for help.
 I want to config pydev for eclipse and I need to know where the
 ececutable python file is.
 Thank you!

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Finding web host headers

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there any way to fetch a website's host/version headers using
Python?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Valid SQL?

[Harlin Seritt]

I have this string that I am sending via a Cursor.execute() using
MySQLdb:

insert into table Ping82_eb13__elearn__ihost__com (`dateTime`,
`values`) values(
Fri May 12 11:39:02 2006, 1)

Does anyone see anything wrong with this SQL syntax?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Valid SQL?

[Harlin Seritt]

Thanks for the help. I set up the SQL statement to be like:
INSERT INTO tblFoo (field1, field2) VALUES ('value1', 'value2')

I get this error:

insert into Web1_DLTDS10_RootSite (dateTime, values) values('Sat Apr 15
08:58:13
 2006', '0')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File librarian.py, line 45, in ?
Cursor.execute(InsertValuesSQL)
  File C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\cursors.py, line 137, in
execute
self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
  File C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\connections.py, line 33,
in defau
lterrorhandler
raise errorclass, errorvalue
_mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError: (1064, You have an error in your
SQL syntax
; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for
the right s
yntax to use near 'values) values('Sat Apr 15 08:58:13 2006', '0')' at
line 1)

Any idea why I'm getting this?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Valid SQL?

[Harlin Seritt]

I am using the exact same query string generated and it works when i
type it in the MySQL client but doesn't work when using the MySQLdb
module. 

:(

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to append to a dictionary

[Harlin Seritt]

I have some code here:

groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'}

I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange'

How do I append this to 'groups'?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Suggestion for Web App

[Harlin Seritt]

I want to make a recommendation to a group of internal customers where
I work concerning a Python web framework. They are seeking to build a
portal that can handle around 5000 total users  but probably no more
than 100-200 simultaneous users. This is supposed to serve mainly
static content - the content will hold references, tutorials and
examples for different technologies, a forum (similar probably to
phpbb) and podcasts (rss and mp3 files). Also I believe it will
definitely need a decent DB server for this.

They have some other suggestions ranging from Websphere/JSP's to PHP. I
personally don't think the PHP will scale well for growth and I also
think that using Java/JSPs will be too slow for this sort of thing.

I normally work as system and application admin and use Python in a
number of ways to get the job done. Naturally, I am naturally inclined
to suggest something that uses Python or something Pythonic. I wanted
to suggest Zope but there are also other ones I'm thinking of as well
like CherryPy and Karrigell. Which one of these (or other ones you guys
know of) would do the best job in this situation?

Also do you guys know if MySQL would work with this or should they use
something more robust like DB2 (IBM shop)?

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Caching in memory for Apache

[Harlin Seritt]

Pickle (http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/tut_58.html) comes
to mind when anyone mentions wanting to save a value, method, object,
etc without writing to storage (file or db). Is it possible for you to
post some code? There may be an alternative algorithm so you can avoid
writing to memory.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's The Best Editor for python

[Harlin Seritt]

Food for thought... I admit it would be best if you could use the same
editor for both *nix and Windows -- in that case, I'd say Scite would
be best as it is almost identical in both environments. However, my own
personal favorites are: Crimson Editor for Windows and Kate for Linux.
Yes, I know... strange choices (especially Kate) but they both do what
I need them to do. :-)

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Suggestion for Web App

[Harlin Seritt]

Why not just use static HTML for the static content ?

Makes sense... now, what about for having the portal capabilities
(users log in, save profiles, etc)... what would be best for that? I
really don't think though that a CMS is necessary. Does anyone know of
a Python forum package similar to phpBB?

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's The Best Editor for python

[Harlin Seritt]

Was actually going to throw in jEdit for the category of what's good on
both platforms... For someone who despises Java, I actually like it.
:-)

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Get Root access in Linux?

[Harlin Seritt]

sudo is something of a quick fix.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mascyma

[Harlin Seritt]

You'll almost certainly need to take a look at mascyma's support
facilities: support web page, forum, etc (provided they do indeed
exist).

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python CGI not working in Firefox but does in IE

[Harlin Seritt]

I have this Python CGI script running:

[CODE]
print 'Content-type: text/plain\n'

location = 'http://server1.com'

page = '''
html
head
meta http-equiv=Refresh content=0; URL='''+location+'''
/head
body/body
/html'''

print page
[/CODE]

It works fine and redirects perfectly when using Internet Explorer but
only shows this in a Firefox window:

[OUTPUT]
html
head
meta http-equiv=Refresh content=0; URL=http://server1.com;
/head
/html
[/OUTPUT]

Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Also, is there a redirect command somewhere within Python CGI that can
get this done instead as I would actually prefer to have the CGI code
execute this rather than depend on the HTML to do it.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python CGI not working in Firefox but does in IE

[Harlin Seritt]

Ack... I'm an idiot... Thanks Richard -- You're the Man!

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

FTPlib

[Harlin Seritt]

Using ftplib from Python I am trying to get all files in a particular
directory using ftplib and then send those same files to another ftp
server. I have tried using commands like 'get *' and 'mget *' with no
success.

I am using the following:

srcFtp = FTP(srcHost)
srcFtp.login(srcUser, srcPass)
srcDir = srcFtp.nlst('.')
for file in srcDir:
print file[2:]
srcFtp.transfercmd('get '+file[2:])

I've verified that I do have a connection with the ftp server and the
files as 'file[2:]' are indeed the file names.

Anyone know why I get the following error?

podcast-1.mp3
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File podsync.py, line 17, in ?
srcFtp.transfercmd('get '+file[2:])
  File C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py, line 345, in transfercmd
return self.ntransfercmd(cmd, rest)[0]
  File C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py, line 327, in ntransfercmd
resp = self.sendcmd(cmd)
  File C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py, line 241, in sendcmd
return self.getresp()
  File C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py, line 216, in getresp
raise error_perm, resp
ftplib.error_perm: 500 Syntax error, command unrecognized.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Tkinter: is there a has_focus method or property for a window?

[Harlin Seritt]

I have two windows. One is a main config window. The other is an 'Add
Setting' window. Both are using two different classes.

Once the Add Setting button is clicked on the Add Setting window, the
setting is written to file. At that time the main config window should
update its setting listing but it doesn't because it doesn't know it
should.

I do notice that when the Add Setting window closes, the focus goes
right back to the main config window. Is there a has focus event that
can trigger a command for this window?

Also, if there is another way to get this done, I am open to
suggestions.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Catching very specific exceptions

[Harlin Seritt]

I am running the following code:

import socket

host = '9.9.45.103'
port = 10001

conn = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
conn.connect((host, port))

When conn.connect() is run, there can be two different exceptions:

socket.error: (10061, 'Connection refused')
socket.error: (10060, 'Operation timed out')

How can I set up exceptions for each of these differently? Normally I
would use:

except socket.error:
code goes here...

Of course, though, these are two separate error messages under the same
error handler though. I've tried:

except socket.error, (10061, 'Connection refused'):
and
except (socket.error, 10061, 'Connection refused'):

to no avail. What do I need to do to catch each one specifically?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catching very specific exceptions

[Harlin Seritt]

Thanks for the effort on this last post, Roy. You asked what I was
hoping to do differently on these two very minutely different error
messages. What I have been trying to do for some time is to write a
ping client (for Win32 platform -- Yes, I develop almost exclusively
for Win32 environment, unfortunately) that would be a bit less buggy
than ones already written, avoid Twisted, and not even involve myself
in pynms (way overkill for what I want and need).

I am finding that with the many quirks (and really bad foundation for
Win32 APIs) that I am having to write a lot of voodoo code so to speak.
If I use a dummy port... let's say port 10001 for example... I can
attempt to connect to a machine at this port. If I get an error that
says Connection refused, I know that the node is up but is just not
going to allow a connection. On the other hand, if I try to connect to
a node and it's really not up, I'll get a Connection timed out error.
In this manner I can really tell if a node is up or not (providing a
TCP/IP stack is installed there). This really what I've wanted. I am
not so concerned whether or not the node pongs back in a certain amount
of time.

Yeah normally it's annoying when people ask what you're trying to do
when you ask a specific question, but in this case it's probably
necessary to explain myself before some are willing to help out. I'm
really not interested in even negotiating a successful connection on a
specific port, but this is just a way to tell if something is up or
down (and perhaps the only real way to do it running from a Win32
platform). Thanks for the help. However, if you do have suggestions on
how to get this done better, I am more than glad to hear it!

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catching very specific exceptions

[Harlin Seritt]

Reasons why it still won't work:

* Firewall
* Unknown-modes-operating-systems-get-into

Yeah, I dont think these things can be avoided. Nonetheless, if I can
come up with some way (via help from this group--thank God!) to find if
the node is up (barring the two aforementioned reasons), I am doing
well. Maybe my standards are not so high. :-|

Nonetheless, thanks for the help and the commentary. I was beginning to
think I was losing my mind.

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

socket.gethostbyaddr() question

[Harlin Seritt]

I have a list of IP addresses I am testing with socket.gethostbyaddr().
For the most part, I am able to get a hostname returned to me when I
run gethostbyaddr(). I am also hoping this will allow me to tell if a
computer is up or down. However, in my environment, I am finding that I
am able to get a hostname even though I am unable to actually ping that
server (when I ping a server i like this, I get 'request timed out'
messages telling me that the server is not up).

Other times, I am able to ping a server with success but the
gethostbyaddr() request will not be able to return a hostname for me
making me think that machine is truly down when I know it's not. Can
anyone give me any pointers as to why this happens? Is there anyway I
can do a reliable ping to another server with Python? I am not
interested in doing system calls with a system Ping client (I have to
ping way too many machines and this either takes too long or causes
severe memory leakage due to MS's horrible ping client). Also, I am
unable to use Jeremy Hylton's Python ping client because it does little
more than call gethostbyaddr(). Thanks for taking a look at this.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting milliseconds to human amount of time

[Harlin Seritt]

How can I take a time given in milliseconds (I am doing this for an
uptime script) and convert it to human-friendly time i.e. 4 days, 2
hours, 25 minutes, 10 seonds.? Is there a function from the time
module that can do this?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting milliseconds to human time

[Harlin Seritt]

I would like to take milliseconds and convert it to a more
human-readable format like:

4 days 20 hours 10 minutes 35 seconds

Is there something in the time module that can do this? I havent been
able to find anything that would do it.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Converting milliseconds to human time

[Harlin Seritt]

Thanks Dan, that would be perfect or close enough I should say. :-)

Regards,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to Retrieve Data from an HTTPS://URL

[Harlin Seritt]

I am trying to pull data from a web page at https://localhost/wps.
While this would work if the url was http://localhost/wps, it doesn't
work with 'https.'

I can do this:

import urllib
data = urllib.urlopen('http://localhost/wps').read()

But not with https. How can I pull data from a https url?

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Need eyes to look at code... time not having an attribute called asctime()

[Harlin Seritt]

from utilities import *
from extractor import *
import time
import os

print 'Running AgentPing at '+time.asctime()

confFile = '../conf/AgentPing/AgentPing.conf'
ex = extractor(confFile)

names = ex.array('name')
comments = ex.array('comment')
ips = ex.array('ip')
counts = ex.array('count')
thresholds = ex.array('threshold')
alarms = ex.array('alarm')
levels = ex.array('level')
records = ex.array('record')

plogger = Logger('../logs/AgentPing.log')

for name,comment,count,ip,threshold,alarm,level,record in
zip(names,comments,counts,ips,thresholds,alarms,levels,records):
msg = 'AGENT INFORMATION: Pinging '+ip+' at '+time.asctime()
print msg
plogger.loggit(msg)
line = 'ping -n '+count+' '+ip
try:
data = os.popen(line).readlines()
time = data[-1].split()[-1][:-2]
except:
msg = 'AGENT FAILURE: Unable to run ping on '+ip+' for unknown
reason.'
print msg
msg += 'Error created at '+time.asctime()
time = float(threshold)*2
plogger.loggit(msg)
createAlarm(name, comment, ip, threshold, level, msg)

Whenever I run this I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File agentPing.py, line 23, in ?
msg = 'AGENT INFORMATION: Pinging '+ip+' at '+time.asctime()
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'asctime'
Press any key to exit

I'm sure this is something simple but for this I am having trouble
figuring it out.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Function to retrieve running script

[Harlin Seritt]

Thanks Mike,

that will work just as well... just disappointed in myself that i lack
the creativity to think of something that simple ;-)

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Function to retrieve running script

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there a function that allows one to get the name of the same script
running returned as a string?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pinging from within python

[Harlin Seritt]

You can do the following:

import os

data = os.popen('ping machineName').read()
if 'request timed out' in data or 'unknown host' in data:
  Ping Failed Code
else:
  Ping Returned Something Good Code

This is the quickest and really most effective way to get it done IMO.

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Putting a lock on file.

[Harlin Seritt]

I have a file that a few different running scripts will need to access.
Most likely this won't be a problem but if it is, what do I need to do
to make sure scripts don't crash because the input file is in use?
Would it be best to run a loop like the following:

flag = 0
while not flag:
try:
open(file, 'r').read()
flag = 1
except:
pass

This may seem nice on paper but I hate to run a while for an
indeterminate amount of time. Is there anything else that can be done
that would be better?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Rendering HTML

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi DH,

Thanks for this blurb from ASPN. I am really looking, however, to do
this on a Windows machine as opposed to a Unix one at this point. This
will come in handy down the road I am sure.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Rendering HTML

[Harlin Seritt]

I am looking for a module that will render html to console but
formatted much like one might see with Lynx. Is there such a module
already out there for this?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python Search Engine app

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi,

Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app
(something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there?
Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you
guys' minds on this.

thanks,

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python script under windows

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi Jan,

Unfortunately you will have to register it as a service. I am almost
certain there is no other way to do it. However, setting up an
executable as a true Windows Service is extremely tedious. You can try
this utility that I use. You can get it here:
http://www.seritt.org/pub/srvinst13b.exe. I'm probably not supposed to
distribute it, but the site and owners that used to host it have gone
belly up best that I can tell. As with anything, use it at your own
risk. I found it as freeware a few months back.

If you want a decent cheap solution, FireDaemon is pretty good. I think
it's like 30USD but it does a great job and adds a few extra features.

HTH,

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems with smtplib

[Harlin Seritt]

What are you getting in your smtpd logs? Are you using postfix?
sendmail? or are you running this against a Windows stmp service?

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Win32: Possible to use Python to create Snap-Ins for MMC?

[Harlin Seritt]

Is it possible to use Python to create snapins for the MMC?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: use threading without classes

[Harlin Seritt]

Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to do this using the the
threading class? To each his own I suppose. You can try the following
though you'll at least need to use functions:


import time
import thread

def myfunction(string,sleeptime,*args):
while 1:

print string
time.sleep(sleeptime) #sleep for a specified amount of time.

if __name__==__main__:

thread.start_new_thread(myfunction,(Thread No:1,2))

while 1:pass

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Considering moving from PowerBuilder to Python

[Harlin Seritt]

For:
snip
So, is there any data on the popularity of IDEs (most users), or is
there a chart comparing the most popular versions.
/snip

Hi Norm,

You can do a Google search for these sorts of things like opinions and
comparisons. Believe me, there are more blogs and articles on these
things than you can shake a stick at :-).

Harlin Seritt
Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Machine Name

[Harlin Seritt]

How does one get the machine name with Python that the actual script is
running on? Obviously, one could parse the hosts file but I was
wondering if there was a quick way to get it done?

thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with Regular Expressions

[Harlin Seritt]

I have been looking at the Python re module and have been trying to
make sense of a simple function that I'd like to do. However, no amount
of reading or googling has helped me with this. Forgive my
stone-headedness. I have done this with .NET and Java in the past but
damn if I can't get it done with Python for some reason. As such I am
sure it is something even simpler.

I am trying to find some matches and have them put into a list when
processing is done. I'll use a simple example like email addresses.

My input is the following:
wordList = ['myname1', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]']

My regular expression would be something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (I realize
it could and should be more detailed but that's not the point for now).

I would like to find out how to output the matches for this expression
of my 'wordList' into a neat list variable. How do I get this done?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with Regular Expressions

[Harlin Seritt]

Ahh that's it Frederik. That's what I was looking for. The regular
expression problems I will take care of, but first wanted to walk
before running. ;)

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with Regular Expressions

[Harlin Seritt]

Forgive another question here, but what is the 'r' for when used with
expression: r'\w+...' ?

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to run python script in background after i logout

[Harlin Seritt]

I have a remote linux server where I can only access it via ssh. I have
a script that I need to have run all the time. I run like so:

python script.py 

It runs fine. When I log off ssh I notice that the script died when I
logged off. How do I make sure it stays running?

thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Formatting data to output in web browser from web form

[Harlin Seritt]

This is perfect. Thanks!

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Formatting data to output in web browser from web form

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi,

I am using CherryPy to make a very small Blog web app.

Of course I use a textarea input on a page to get some information.
Most of the time when text is entered into it, there will be carriage
returns.

When I take the text and then try to re-write it out to output (in html
on a web page), I notice the Python strings don't translate these
special characters (carriage returns) to a p so that these
paragraphs show up properly in html for output. I tried doing something
like StringData.replace('\n', 'p'). Of course this doesnt work
because it appears that '\n' is not being used.

Is there anything I can do to make sure paragraphs show up properly?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Want to learn a language - is Python right?

[Harlin Seritt]

Aziz McTang wrote:

 Hi Paul,
 
 Thanks for your input.
 
 As usual, hearing some answers helps formulate the question...
 
 What I'm looking for is more to learn one good, comprehensive
 programming language well than several approximately on an ad hoc
 basis. What I also failed to mention is the desire to develop my
 presently limited computer skills a lot further.
 
 So although your answer to 1 suggests I'd be using a steam-roller to
 kill a fly, if I do need to go further (or ask other people to help and
 still understand what's going on: one site I may want to develop later
 involves a number of languages including Japanese as well as audio) I
 won't have to re-learn another program. Is this right?
 
 As to 2, I have yet to find a canned program that does what I want, and
 so far every programmer I've asked to write it has said hey that's
 easy then escaped, never to be heard of again.
 
 And 3: good! Actually, having learned half a dozen languages, I can
 vouch for it being an excellent way to acquire and consolidate
 vocabulary. Talking to (or, rather, understanding) the natives is
 another kettle of fish!
 
 Thanks again!
 
 Any new slants from yourself or others are welcome.
 
 Aziz

You can use CherryPy for creating a Python-esque web application. Never buy
into the fluff that says Python is not as good as PHP for web apps! PHP is
still too Perl-Like (meaning old and useless)! Python is the choice of a
new generation baby!!! :) JK... 

For your vocab program, Python is actually perfect. This could even go for
apps that require some Unicode and other Internationalization snafus (like
right-to-left characters and Cyrillic typesets). 

If you're looking for one programming language then you should consider the
idea that no one language can do it all (although Python comes close in my
biased opinion). Python is not for memory management, writing device
drivers and the like. 

As far as needing something for web apps, CherryPy is great -- just learn
Python first. PHP is good but it has fallen out of favor with me though
there are a ton of people out there who think it is the greatest thing
since sliced bread.

Take a look at the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html. 

Good luck,

Harlin Seritt 
-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: extreme newbie

[Harlin Seritt]

?

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to learn OO of python?

[Harlin Seritt]

?

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does TKinter Have A Grid ?

[Harlin Seritt]

Not a grid widget necessarilly but a 'grid' method you can use instead
of pack(). Take a look at
http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/grid.htm. If
this isn't what you mean, come back.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Active Directory Modules?

[Harlin Seritt]

Does anyone know if there are any Python Active Directory Modules out
there? I looked at LDAP module but there is no version for Python 2.4
and it's support for Active Directory seems to be lacking a bit.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

SGMLlib module

[Harlin Seritt]

I am trying to use SGMLlib module to extract all links from some data I
pulled from the web (via urllib). I have looked at the documentation
online and can not make sense of it. As a quick example, how would I
get the hyperlinks for an html file?

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SGMLlib module

[Harlin Seritt]

Thanks for the help, I just didn't like the way that SGMLlib forces one
to instantiate a class to do this (or httplib for that matter). I
looked at those links you graciously sent (thanks!) but didn't like
them. At any rate, I went ahead and wrote my own. Thank goodness that
it's easy to parse with Python on your own!

Thanks for the help,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Using wildcards...

[Harlin Seritt]

I looked all over the net but could not find if it is possible to
insert wildcards into strings. What I am trying to do is this: I am
trying to parse text from a Bible file. In case you're not familiar
with the way the Bible organizes itself, it is broken down into Books 
Chapters  Verses. The particular text I am working with are organized
into Book files (*.txt -- flat text file). Here is what the file looks
like:

{1:1} Random text here. {1:2} More text here. and so on.

Of course the {*} can be of any length, so I can't just do .split()
based on the length of the bracket text. What I would like to do is to
.split() using something akin to this:

textdata.split('{*}') # The '*' being a wildcard

Is this possible to do? If so, how is it done?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Displaying formatted - data with TKinter

[Harlin Seritt]

I've used multiple listboxes in the past. Also, you can build a widget
that contains multiple listboxes as well. As far as there being one
ready to go, I don't know of one.

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Quick and dirty dialogs?

[Harlin Seritt]

Try EasyDialog:
http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.python/messages/314003.html

It should also be on Vaults of Parnassus.

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using wildcards...

[Harlin Seritt]

George that is what I'm looking for. Thanks, Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Running script in background.

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi,

I have a script.py that is converted to .exe using py2exe. From another
script I call script.exe and would like to be able to run this
script.exe in the background (as well as in console -- giving the user
some simple options). How can I make this happen?

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Killing process

[Harlin Seritt]

I actually tried mapping the PID to an integer value and it still
didn't work. At any rate, I found another way to do it. Thanks anyways.

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tkMessageBox dialog help

[Harlin Seritt]

Nathan,

From what I've seen I'm afraid this is the way it is. If you call an
instance of tkMessageBox and you don't have a 'master' Tk instance
running, it will create its own.

Still, I'm sure with a bit of voodoo you can hide the self created tk
window while showing the message box. If you find a more elegant way to
accomplish this, please post back !

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Writing to log file when script is killed

[Harlin Seritt]

I am looking for a way for my script to write to a log file saying
something like this:

I was killed at time.asctime()

I would like to be able to do this if/when the script is killed by
means rather than my own. How in the world would I accomplish this?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Getting PID for process

[Harlin Seritt]

Let's say I have a simple script on Windows NT. I would like for that
script to find its own PID once it's started and store that as a value
within the script. Also, down the road I'd like to kill that process by
its PID. How is this done?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Killing process

[Harlin Seritt]

I am using os.getpid() to get the pid value for a script running. I
store that value (as a string) to a file. Later when I try to kill that
pid (i pull this from the file as a string value) I get  errors.

Using the following lines I get the subsequent error.

(pid is a string value)
win32api.TerminateProcess(int(pid), 0)

OR

ctypes.windll.kernel32.TerminateProcess(int(pid), 0)

Errors:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File C:\Python23\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py, line 1345, i
return self.func(*args)
  File vngconsole.py, line 27, in StopVngSvc
win32api.TerminateProcess(int(pid), 0)
error: (6, 'TerminateProcess', 'The handle is invalid.')

How exactly do I kill a pid using a string value?

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Killing process

[Harlin Seritt]

Yeah I've kind of figured that. I was just wanting to know what I could
use to kill a pid that is a string value. Thanks though.

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Killing process

[Harlin Seritt]

I think I need something besides TerminateProcess(). Is there anyway
possible to terminate a process by just passing a string value to the
function? Honestly, I am not interesting in terminating a process by
its handle.

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Getting the sender widget's name in function (Tkinter)

[Harlin Seritt]

I have the following script. Two widgets call the same function. How
can I tell inside of the called function which button called it?:

def say_hello():
   print 'hello!'
   print widget['text']

root = Tk()
button1 = Button(root, text='Button 1', command=say_hello)
button1.pack()
button2 = Button(root, text='Button 2', command=say_hello)
button2.pack()
root.mainloop()

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can .py be complied?

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi monkey,

Not a stupid question especially if you're trying to create commercial
software and don't want to reveal your source. At any rate, you can use
py2exe to create a .exe file. It does have some cons to it since you
are compiling an interpreted script but it works fine in this capacity.
If you would like to obfuscate your code (disguise it) without an
executable you can try pyobfuscate as well. Just Google for these two
and you'll find easily.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Decent Win32All Documentation

[Harlin Seritt]

Does anyone know of any decent documenation on Mark Hammond's win32all
modules? I have tried looking at the documentation .chm file that comes
with it, Python Programming On Win32 (OReilly book) and ActiveState's
documentation and have found them all lacking -- yes I need it broken
down to me.

What I am hoping to do is to work on some Python versions of PSTools. I
think the win32 modules will be perfect for helping me do this,
however, I am having a (more than it should be) difficult time making
sense of the win32process module.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Decent Win32All Documentation

[Harlin Seritt]

Kartic,

Thanks for the help. It's good to get a different perspective on
something (i.e. MSDN, dir() etc).

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Parsing data from URL

[Harlin Seritt]

I am trying to do the following:

of course website.com is not the actual site

import urllib

url = 'http://www.website.com/file.shtml'
dat = urllib.urlopen(url, 'r').read()
print dat

When I do so, I get the following data:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN
HTMLHEAD
TITLE405 Method Not Allowed/TITLE
/HEADBODY
H1Method Not Allowed/H1
The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL P
HR
ADDRESSApache/1.3.27 Server at website.com Port 80/ADDRESS
/BODY/HTML

How can I make sure that I get the actual html data instead of the data
from redirected URL?

thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Multiple tuples for one for statement

[Harlin Seritt]

I have three tuples of the same size: tup1, tup2, tup3

I'd like to do something like this:

for a,b,c in tup1, tup2, tup3:
   print a
   print b
   print c

Of course, you get an error when you try to run the pseudocode above.
What is the correct way to get this done?

Thanks,

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Question Regarding PIL and PhotoImage classes

[Harlin Seritt]

Why is that I can only get the PhotoImage class to show up when I write
a straight procedural script (no object orientation) but not when I try
to use object-orientation?

These two scripts in theory should produce the same results but they
don't. Is there any reason why?

---Procedural---

root = Tk()
im = Image.open('image.gif')
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)

label = Label(image=photo)
label.pack()
root.mainloop()

---Object-Oriented---

from Tkinter import *
import Image, ImageTk

class App:

def __init__(self, master):
im = Image.open('dellserver.gif')
photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im)

label = Label(master, image=photo)
label.pack()


if __name__ == '__main__':
root = Tk()
app = App(root)
root.mainloop()

---END of CODE---

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Tk provide ComboBox ?

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi Markus,

Pmw has a ComboBox but it's ugly IMO. Tix also has one -- but it's not
much different than the Pmw one. I created one and put it in a
Tkinter.py file. You can see mine here:
http://www.seritt.org/pub/tkinter/Tkinter-03132005.py -- I can honestly
say it's almost fully functional :-)

Seriously though, you can use the Listbox for almost anything you would
need a combobox for. In my mind, it's good for tight spaces (I'm sure
someone on this fine board will add something or disagree with me),
looks and little else.

Regards,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: serialize a tkinter thing

[Harlin Seritt]

No reason why they shouldn't be.

-Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: very simple tkinter demo program

[Harlin Seritt]

Max,

Thanks and good job!

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: workaround for generating gui tools

[Harlin Seritt]

Benedict,

Best to hand-code your code ;-) -- even GUI. This is kind of why I like
Tkinter so much. Good luck.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: logging as root using python script

[Harlin Seritt]

Hi Raghul,

If possible, run your program as root.

Harlin

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Showing errors explicitly in try... except

[Harlin Seritt]

When using try... except... errors don't show up. Is there a way to
force stderr despite using try...except? 

thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Combining digit in a list to make an integer

[Harlin Seritt]

If anyone has time, would you mind explaining the code that Dan Bishop
was so kind as to point out to me:

int(''.join(num1))

This worked perfectly for me, however, I'm not sure that I understand
it very well. 

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Py2exe and dotNet Python

[Harlin Seritt]

I downloaded PythonDotNet from the Zope site to my laptop. According to
the docs I can use this with my regular Python installation. I copied
CLR.dll and Python.Runtime.dll to my root folder (c:\\Python24). Doing
this I was able to run the dotNet examples with no problems. When I
tried to run py2exe on the scripts I received the following errors:

---
The following modules appear to be missing:

['CLR.System.Drawing', 'CLR.System.Windows.Forms']
---

My setup.py script for py2exe looks like this:

---
# setup.py
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=[helloform.py])
---

I run the setup like this: python setup.py py2exe.

Is there anything else I need to do to get this converted into a *.exe
file successfully?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: good IIS 6.0(win2k3) python CGI web ext. setup instructions

[Harlin Seritt]

Thanks Mark. Since you were in the spirit of volunteering some valuable
information, I thought I'd put in my two cents worth.

If you are thinking of using Zope or Python CGI for web apps, please
take a look at CherryPy (http://www.cherrypy.org). If you are wanting
to create a simple, intermediate or even advanced (in a lot of cases),
CherryPy allows one to actually program an entire website in Python.

For me CherryPy has been the holy grail of web applications (at least
for now) making me forget entirely about using PHP or even ASP.NET for
web development projects.

Cheers,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: hiding a frame in tkinter

[Harlin Seritt]

faramarz,

Most likely, you'll need to replace the 'forgotten' frame with another
one or other widget. You can immediately do *.pack() and it will
replace the frame (assumming you haven't already packed something else
there).

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie Shell Editor Question

[Harlin Seritt]

The Python shell you get with IDLE is actually not a system shell like
cmd.exe or sh, bsh, csh etc. It is a shell that allows the Python
interpreter to evaluate each line of Python code as you type.

This is why when you type 'hello.py' it tells you 'hello.py' is not
defined. On a higher level it simply tells you: you haven't initialized
this object called hello.py in memory and therefore the error. Also you
can't run python anything because in the interpreter python *hasn't*
been assigned any value.

Also, you can't quit the Python interpreter shell by typing exit.
You'll need to do a Control-D  Enter ;-)

Hope this makes sense.

Good luck.

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

[Harlin Seritt]

Diez,

Thanks for the quick reply. I am running this under KDE. I actually
haven't tried doing so under any other wm for the moment. Any ideas how
to get it to show in KDE?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to ensure Maximize button shows in Linux/Unix (Tkinter)

[Harlin Seritt]

I have a tkinter program that shows the 'maximize' button while running
on Windows but not in Linux. Is there a way to make it show in Linux?

Thanks,

Harlin Seritt

-- 
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list