Re: Extreme n00b question

2005-07-25 Thread Erik Max Francis
Anupam Kapoor wrote: > is there a way to continue naming python sources as above, and still > use it as python modules ? i can ofcourse change the name to > 'a_simple_python_example.py', which then works. Something like a_simple_python_example = __import__('a-simple-python-example') --

Re: Reading binary with header

2005-07-25 Thread Miki Tebeka
Hello Dan, >I am trying to head in a binary file that has a header and different >character types. The array module apparently expects the typecode to >be the same throughout. Here's what the file looks like: > >Byte number:type: value: purpose: >1-4 char

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Ron Adam
Peter Hansen wrote: > Michael Hoffman wrote: > >> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> >>> Tony Meyer wrote: >>> Do people really like using __div__ to mean join? >>> >>> >>> I'm not too happy with it, too, but do we have alternatives? ... >>> Of course, one can use joinwith() if he doesn't like '

Extreme n00b question

2005-07-25 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi all, a python n00b, so please bear with me. i have a simple question: i generally name python sources as a-simple-python-example.py. when i try to import a module named as above, i (obviously) get tracebacks from python interpreter. is there a way to continue naming python sources as above, a

Re: Something that Perl can do that Python can't?

2005-07-25 Thread jitu
Donn Cave wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Dr. Who" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So here it is: handle unbuffered output from a child process. > > Your Perl program works the same for me, on MacOS X, > as your Python program. That's what we would expect, > of course, because the prob

Re: Suggestions for Python XML library which can search and insert

2005-07-25 Thread Robert Kern
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a library that can search through an XML document tree, > locate an element by attribute (ideally this can be done through > XPath), and insert an element (as its child). Try lxml: http://codespeak.net/lxml/ In [25]: from lxml import etree

Suggestions for Python XML library which can search and insert

2005-07-25 Thread lainedacier
Hi, I'm looking for a library that can search through an XML document tree, locate an element by attribute (ideally this can be done through XPath), and insert an element (as its child). Simple? Yes? ...but the code I've seen so far which does this uses 'nested for loops' for trees which are rela

Safest manner to extend search path for modules?

2005-07-25 Thread Joseph Turian
Hi, What is the safest manner to extend search path for modules, minimizing the likelihood of shooting oneself in the foot? The system (which includes scripts and their shared modules) may be checked out in several different locations, but a script in a particular checked-out version of the syste

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread en.karpachov
Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:41:36PM +1000, Steven D'Aprano пишет: > Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, (a.k.a. > "before OS X on the Macintosh") Apple suggested a bit > of Pascal code for safely updating a file: > > http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Files/Files-25.html#MARKER-9-16

Thanks (was Re: consistency: extending arrays vs. multiplication ?)

2005-07-25 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Thanks a lot for all the answers!! Soeren -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: consistency: extending arrays vs. multiplication ?

2005-07-25 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 11:50 -0700, Robert Kern wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 13:36 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 18:30:02 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: [...] > >>Lists in Python can contain anything, not just numeric values. > > > > That

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Wade wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>I'm usually opposed to creeping featuritis in programming languages ("it >>would be really cool if Python had a built-in command to do my entire >>application") but safe over-writing of files does cry out for a "batteries >>included" approach: > > > > H

Re: [Pythoncard-users] Grid problems

2005-07-25 Thread Dark Cowherd
> > info = dbc.fetchall() > > > self.dbTable=DBTable(¿?¿?¿?¿?) ß here is where I have problems, I > used cursor, argument but no data shown > Hmm, Not sure, but isnt the data in the variable 'info' try self.dbTable = info -- Dark Cowherd -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Getting a dictionary from an object

2005-07-25 Thread Steven Bethard
Thanos Tsouanas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 02:14:15PM -0600, Steven Bethard wrote: > >>How about something like: >> dict((name, getattr(obj, name)) for name in dir(obj)) > > Pretty!!! > >>Looks like this will get instance attributes, class attributes and >>properties just fine. > > B

Re: UPDATE: SPE 0.7.4.d Python Editor released

2005-07-25 Thread Stani
Well, now you could go for n. I try to be as quick as my feedback from users. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SPE Ide Crash

2005-07-25 Thread Stani
linuxfreak wrote: > Hi Stani, > > Downloaded your latest SPE editor 0.7.4.m . I'm running wxPython 2.6.1 > on a Fedora Core 4 machine. The IDE is great but guess what it crashes > without warning. Was typing some code and boom the whole thing > disappeared without a trace. Thought should let you kn

Re: Time formatting and date suffixes

2005-07-25 Thread Jeffrey E. Forcier
See, I was thinking I'd have to write a short function to do it myself, but I hadn't realized it could be quite *that* short. Thanks! That'll do quite nicely, and is definitely something I'm going to throw in my "general utility functions" folder :) Regards, Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Time formatting and date suffixes

2005-07-25 Thread John Machin
Jeffrey E. Forcier wrote: > This seems like a dead simple question, as it's so rudimentary I can't > believe it hasn't been addressed before. I'm using the time.strftime() > function (actually the mxDateTime implementation, but they're > compatible so it shouldn't matter) to spit out fairly b

Re: Importing User-defined Modules

2005-07-25 Thread Walter Brunswick
Thomas Guettler, your solution was very impractical besides being ignorant of my problem. Thanks for trying nonetheless. Andrew Clover, that is exactly what I was looking for. A few examples would have been nice, but I think I can manage from here. Thanks you. -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread Wade
Steven D'Aprano wrote: >I'm usually opposed to creeping featuritis in programming languages ("it >would be really cool if Python had a built-in command to do my entire >application") but safe over-writing of files does cry out for a "batteries >included" approach: How about the fileinput module?

Re: Try this

2005-07-25 Thread Artur M. Piwko
In the darkest hour on 24 Jul 2005 12:10:47 -0700, RunLevelZero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> screamed: > list = os.walk("C:\python24\Tools") r"C:\python24\Tools" Artur -- [ Artur M. Piwko : Pipen : AMP29-RIPE : RLU:100918 : From == Trap! : SIG:230B ] [ 01:45:21 user up 10684 days, 13:40, 1 user, load a

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:51:42 +0100, Steve Holden wrote: > In Python you can use a text file's readlines() method to build a list > of all the lines in a file. That makes it quite easy to change numbered > lines. Having modified the file's content in memory you can then create > a new file using

Re: pyQT 4

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Godee
> My question is : does anybody know when pyqt 4 will be distributed ? > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/roadmap.php -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Time formatting and date suffixes

2005-07-25 Thread Jeffrey E. Forcier
This seems like a dead simple question, as it's so rudimentary I can't believe it hasn't been addressed before. I'm using the time.strftime() function (actually the mxDateTime implementation, but they're compatible so it shouldn't matter) to spit out fairly basic date formats, to wit: Janu

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread williams13
Anytime Jason... Thanks for fixing this problem. Let me know when you have it solved. In the meantime, I have a workaround. Best regards, Dean On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:11:32 -0400 Jason Tishler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dean, > >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:49:58AM -0700, Dean N. >Willia

pyQT 4

2005-07-25 Thread Nicolas Lebas
hello, i'm using actually pyqt 3.x to create several tools under linux. I plan to propose those tools also for windows and mac os x under GPL agreement. My question is : does anybody know when pyqt 4 will be distributed ? thanks Nicolas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinf

Re: pyparsing 1.3.2 released

2005-07-25 Thread Paul McGuire
Garn! Twa' the de'ils wairk! I wad be laith to misquo' the Sco'ish Bard! I was trying to make sure I spelled "a-gley" - I lapsed into the common, but incorrect, quotation. (http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml) Thanks! -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

deleting a file and looping

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick Thorstenson
I can delete a folder OK using os.remove as long as its empty. I am having difficulty deleting the same folder when there are files in it. I have tried os.removedirs and shutil.rmtree as well but no luck. What am I missing?       Patrick Thorstenson GIS Specialist Montezuma County (

Re: pyparsing 1.3.2 released

2005-07-25 Thread John Machin
Paul McGuire wrote: > "The best laid plans o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley" > > So said Robert Burns (who really should do something about that speech > impediment!). If "schemes" sounds like "plans", perhaps the impediment is in the region of your ears :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/l

Re: Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread Benji York
Ernesto wrote: > Looks like I'm not getting my parameters to my batch file correctly. > I'm using os.system like this: > os.system('bootmanager.bat %s' %"BOOTMANAGER ALL") > > where 'BOOTMANAGER ALL' is what I type at the command prompt arguments. > That must not be right? The batch file will se

Re: OS X py2app confusion

2005-07-25 Thread rafi
bex wrote: > Im baffled about this one... > I was confused about the packaging, so I tried moving all the folders > in py2app into /Library/Python/2.3/ and deleted the py2app.pth file, > but it still wouldn't load the module. that does not sound as a good idea... > Any insight into the voodoo ma

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread Dan Sommers
On 25 Jul 2005 12:57:55 -0700, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A recipe is > * open your file for reading: f = open('filename.txt', 'r') > * read all lines in a list: content = f.readlines() > * close the file: f.close() > * set the third element in the list to something else: con

Re: Getting a dictionary from an object

2005-07-25 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 02:14:15PM -0600, Steven Bethard wrote: > > How about something like: > dict((name, getattr(obj, name)) for name in dir(obj)) Pretty!!! > Looks like this will get instance attributes, class attributes and > properties just fine. But not SQLObject's objects... Any i

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Bengt Richter wrote: > BTW, more OT, wouldn't '|' be more platform-neutral as the joining operator? I, on the other hand, would certainly prefer U+01C1. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Bengt Richter
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:33:51 +0200, Reinhold Birkenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Peter Hansen wrote: >> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >>> Current change: >>> >>> * Add base() method for converting to str/unicode. >> >> Would basestring() be a better name? Partly because that seems to be >> ex

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Bengt Richter
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:19:25 -0400, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Michael Hoffman wrote: >> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >>> Tony Meyer wrote: Do people really like using __div__ to mean join? >>> >>> I'm not too happy with it, too, but do we have alternatives? ... >>> Of course, o

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread nephish
Gee whiz, so easy. thanks. Never thought about just changing it while it was read then re-writing it. that will be just fine. these files are only 9 lines long. thanks again ! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Jason Tishler
Dean, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 10:49:58AM -0700, Dean N. Williams wrote: > For version control and other reasons, it would be nice to be able to > build Python from source and it should build from source. How did the > Cygwin version build? I built using an older version of Cygwin (i.e, 1.5.12-1).

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A recipe is * open your file for reading: f = open('filename.txt', 'r') * read all lines in a list: content = f.readlines() * close the file: f.close() * set the third element in the list to something else: content[2] = 'Blahdiblah' * re-open the file for writing: f = open('filename.txt', 'w') * wr

Re: Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread Ernesto
Looks like I'm not getting my parameters to my batch file correctly. I'm using os.system like this: os.system('bootmanager.bat %s' %"BOOTMANAGER ALL") where 'BOOTMANAGER ALL' is what I type at the command prompt arguments. That must not be right? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: how to imput usernames and passwords??

2005-07-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try cx_Oracle http://www.computronix.com/utilities.shtml#Oracle, it is an excellent library based on the DB API of Python -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey there, > kinda newbie question here. > i know how to read the lines of a txt file. > i know how to write a txt file. > > but how do i overwrite a line value with another value ? > > i mean, how do go to, say, line 3 of a text file and replace > what is written on li

Re: Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread Ernesto
Thanks. Yeah I started to write in Python. Looks like this: ** import os from os.path import join # Get input from user and make sure it is valid fileDirec = raw_input("\nEnter the path of where your STMP3XXX_SDK_FIRMWARE\nis located (i.e. C:

OS X py2app confusion

2005-07-25 Thread bex
Im baffled about this one... Im running OS 10.3, and Python 2.3. I installed py2app 0.17 and never used it, then installed py2app 0.2. It refuses to work. None of the samples will build. Observe: $ pwd /Developer/Python/py2app/Examples/pygame $ python setup.py py2app Traceback (most recent call l

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Dean N. Williams
Hi Jason, To get "import socket" to work in Python2.4, I had to do something that I never recomend and that is hack the Python code. Since I need this to work for someone that is going on travel, I just modified the socketmodule.c file. REPLACE: /* Irix 6.5 fails to define this variable a

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Holden
Jason Tishler wrote: > Dean, > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:27:16AM -0700, Dean N. Williams wrote: > >>I was able to run C:/cygwin/bin/ash.exe. This is good. In the >>"ash.exe" window, I ran PATH=/bin rebaseall and received the same >>error: "rebaseall: only ash processes are allowed .. Execu

Re: PyGTK or wxPython (not a flame war) on Windows

2005-07-25 Thread Lonnie Princehouse
I haven't used PyGTK very much, so I can't comment on it. My last impression of GTK-on-Windows was that it wasn't very stable and didn't blend well with the Windows native look and feel, but that was a while ago and it has probably improved a great deal since then. I use wxPython, doing my develo

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Dean N. Williams
Right! Forgot to exit out of ALL Cygwin processes. This does work. -Dean Jason Tishler wrote: >Dean, > >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:27:16AM -0700, Dean N. Williams wrote: > > >>I was able to run C:/cygwin/bin/ash.exe. This is good. In the >>"ash.exe" window, I ran PATH=/bin rebaseall and receiv

Re: Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Ernesto wrote: > The issue is I haven't done very much batch programming. I need to > prompt the user for input and each batch file is in a different > directory. How do I change directories and prompt for user input? Ah, now you're talking things where Python, while not strictly required, can

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Jason Tishler
Dean, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:27:16AM -0700, Dean N. Williams wrote: > I was able to run C:/cygwin/bin/ash.exe. This is good. In the > "ash.exe" window, I ran PATH=/bin rebaseall and received the same > error: "rebaseall: only ash processes are allowed .. Execute > '/bin/rebaseall' from ash

how to write a line in a text file

2005-07-25 Thread nephish
Hey there, kinda newbie question here. i know how to read the lines of a txt file. i know how to write a txt file. but how do i overwrite a line value with another value ? i mean, how do go to, say, line 3 of a text file and replace what is written on line 3 with something else? thanks <>< --

Re: Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread Ernesto
Thanks Peter. The issue is I haven't done very much batch programming. I need to prompt the user for input and each batch file is in a different directory. How do I change directories and prompt for user input? Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I encode something in base32 preferably very fast?

2005-07-25 Thread Elmo Mäntynen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:15:36 +0300, Elmo Mäntynen wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:51:05 +0200, Johannes Findeisen wrote: > >> On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:23 +0300, Elmo Mäntynen wrote: >>> I want to encode a plaindigest or a hexdigest in base 32. Any hints? >> >> Search Google for "python base32" i

Re: psp & php integration

2005-07-25 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:53:19PM +0100, Jon Hewer wrote: > Hello, > > I am upgrading a PHP based site and want to use Python (using mod_python and > psp file) to achieve what is required. However, I do not want to recode the > navigation part of the site which is currently coded using PHP. Som

Re: Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a newbie and I was wondering if anyone knew a (Python) script to > run 4 batch files, one after the other (assuming the directories are > known). It would be better if all 4 batch files could run > simultaneously, but that might break Windows... ;) The problem I ha

psp & php integration

2005-07-25 Thread Jon Hewer
Hello,   I am upgrading a PHP based site and want to use Python (using mod_python and psp file) to achieve what is required.  However, I do not want to recode the navigation part of the site which is currently coded using PHP.  Somehow I need to merge the outputs of the PHP file and my PS

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Dean N. Williams
[snip] I was able to run C:/cygwin/bin/ash.exe. This is good. In the "ash.exe" window, I ran PATH=/bin rebaseall and received the same error: "rebaseall: only ash processes are allowed .. Execute '/bin/rebaseall' from ash." -Dean >If Cygwin's bin is not in your Windows PATH, then give the

Run batch files in Windows XP

2005-07-25 Thread erniedude
Hi, I'm a newbie and I was wondering if anyone knew a (Python) script to run 4 batch files, one after the other (assuming the directories are known). It would be better if all 4 batch files could run simultaneously, but that might break Windows... ;) The problem I had was I couldn't get the fil

Re: How can I encode something in base32 preferably very fast?

2005-07-25 Thread Elmo Mäntynen
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:51:05 +0200, Johannes Findeisen wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:23 +0300, Elmo Mäntynen wrote: >> I want to encode a plaindigest or a hexdigest in base 32. Any hints? > > Search Google for "python base32" isn't as hard... > > First result are the original python lib docu

Re: GPRS Connection name on Python s60

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah i have already asked it, but, i think i can set before the > .connect method, a connection as default, and, when connected, resore > default connection! Well, more power to you. I'll simply note again that this is a non-standard thing, and not directly supported b

Reading binary with header

2005-07-25 Thread Einstein, Daniel R
Title: Reading binary with header Hello, I am trying to head in a binary file that has a header and different character types. The array module apparently expects the typecode to be the same throughout. Here's what the file looks like: Byte number:    type:   value:  purpose: 1-4       

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Dalke
> Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> Current change: >> >> * Add base() method for converting to str/unicode. Now that [:] slicing works, and returns a string, another way to convert from path.Path to str/unicode is path[:] Andrew [EMAIL

Re: how to imput usernames and passwords??

2005-07-25 Thread skip
Patrick> Is there a way I can have Python tell Oracle what the username Patrick> and password is? Dunno what db adapter module is used for Oracle, but the ones I've used for Sybase, PostgreSQL and MySQL all accept username/password parameters either individually or stuffed into a DSN stri

how to imput usernames and passwords??

2005-07-25 Thread Patrick Thorstenson
I am scripting GIS (mapping) applications at a very very basic level... One of our processes involves connecting to an Oracle database. When the connection occurs, we are prompted to enter a user name and password. That is OK when we are sitting right there but we want to be able to enter t

Re: GPRS Connection name on Python s60

2005-07-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah i have already asked it, but, i think i can set before the .connect method, a connection as default, and, when connected, resore default connection! Peter Hansen ha scritto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, I have a question for the experts of Python for series60! > > > > When I use the ".c

Re: First app, thanks people

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Danielsson
Will McGugan wrote: [---] > You should use the keycode constants. > > http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.6.1/wx_keycodes.html#keycodes [---] Excellent! Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Building Python with Tcl/Tk on Cygwin_NT-5.1

2005-07-25 Thread Jason Tishler
Dean, On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 05:55:39AM -0700, Dean N. Williams wrote: > >>Is there anyway for me to get back to an older version of Cygwin? > > > >What do you mean by the above? An older Cygwin? An older Cygwin > >Python? An older rebase? See below... > [snip] > > When installing from the

Re: First app, thanks people

2005-07-25 Thread Cyril Bazin
In case you want some advises for your code: -backslashes are not necesseary when you declare list or dict on many lines. I didn't pay attention at the semantic of your code, but after giving a quick look, you can simplify things like: BRUSHSTYLENAMES = ['Transparent', 'Solid', 'BDiagonalHatch'

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Reinhold> Right, that was a concern of mine, too. > Reinhold> "tobase"? > Reinhold> "tostring"? > Reinhold> "tobasestring"? > > If we're on a filesystem that understands unicode, would somepath.tostring() > return a unicode object or a string object encod

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread skip
Reinhold> Right, that was a concern of mine, too. Reinhold> "tobase"? Reinhold> "tostring"? Reinhold> "tobasestring"? If we're on a filesystem that understands unicode, would somepath.tostring() return a unicode object or a string object encoded with some to-be-determined encoding

Re: Counting processors

2005-07-25 Thread Alan Kennedy
[Pauldoo] > Is a way in python to obtain the total number of processors present in > the system? On windows, List Processor Information. Description: Returns information about the processors installed on a computer. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/Python/hardware/basic/hwb

urllib2 problem/bug: Request.add_header does() nothing?

2005-07-25 Thread kelio
I have a simple cgi-script on a server that prints all key-value pairs from a request. And it really works when i use a browser and type smth like http://server/cgi-bin/test?name=mike&johny=dummy. But when I use the following script, nothing is printed (like i type http://server/cgi-bin/test reques

Re: PostgreSQL & Python vs PHP

2005-07-25 Thread Luis P. Mendes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to thank all of you. For what I've read, I'll be using python instead of Php. Luis -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC5RQ5Hn4UHCY8r

Re: First app, thanks people

2005-07-25 Thread Will McGugan
Jan Danielsson wrote: . > >Oh, I do have one more question though. I'm using wxPython, and when > I check for keys I use the evt.GetKeyCode() call, and compare it with > integers which I have found by printing what event.GetKeyCode() returns. > I would prefer a more portable way, since I assum

Re: First app, thanks people

2005-07-25 Thread Jan Danielsson
Dark Cowherd wrote: [---] > In case you are interested in bug report. Always! > class LineTool > method OnLeftUp > needs > self.done = True > > or else if you are in Line mode and you just click with out moving the > mouse you get an error. Many thanks; I can't believe I hadn't stumbled a

Re: Path PEP: What should Path(None) do?

2005-07-25 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Peter Hansen wrote: > Michael Hoffman wrote: >> Currently it returns Path('None'). This means I have to do a check on >> input before pathifying it to make sure it is not None. >> >> Perhaps it should throw ValueError? > > Without checking, I suspect it is merely doing str(x) or unicode(x) on >

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Peter Hansen wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > > Peter Hansen wrote: > >> Would basestring() be a better name? > > > "tobase"? > > "tostring"? > > "tobasestring"? > > Of these choices, the latter would be preferable. > > > Alternative is to set a class attribute "Base" of the > > Path

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >> Would basestring() be a better name? > "tobase"? > "tostring"? > "tobasestring"? Of these choices, the latter would be preferable. > Alternative is to set a class attribute "Base" of the > Path class. Or export PathBase as a name from th

Re: PyGTK or wxPython (not a flame war) on Windows

2005-07-25 Thread Marek Kubica
Hi! On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:16:01 +0200 Torsten Bronger wrote: > I'm very suprised. wxPython is still that buggy? I read reports > from 2000 about such observations, but they tried wxPython in a > non-standard way, and the project has had 5 years to become more > stable after all. Well, I don'

Re: First app, thanks people

2005-07-25 Thread Dark Cowherd
Hmm, I was looking at the code as I am also learning Python. In case you are interested in bug report. class LineTool method OnLeftUp needs self.done = True or else if you are in Line mode and you just click with out moving the mouse you get an error. DarkCowherd -- http://mail.python.org

Re: [ANN] XPN 0.5.0 released

2005-07-25 Thread Nemesis
Mentre io pensavo ad una intro simpatica "Franz Steinhaeusler" scriveva: >>XPN (X Python Newsreader) is a multi-platform newsreader with Unicode >>support. It is written with Python+GTK. It has features like >>scoring/actions, X-Face and Face decoding, muting of quoted text, >>newsrc import/export

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-25 Thread Vladimir Konrad
> > Does anyone of you have experiance with KYLIX 3 and do you think I should > consider buying it? Thank You, I'll go oil my keyboard now. http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ Sorry if the above came out somewhere else in the thread, did not read all. Vlad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/lis

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Peter Hansen wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> Current change: >> >> * Add base() method for converting to str/unicode. > > Would basestring() be a better name? Partly because that seems to be > exactly what it's doing, but more because there are (or used to be?) > other things in Path th

Re: Path PEP: What should Path(None) do?

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Michael Hoffman wrote: > Currently it returns Path('None'). This means I have to do a check on > input before pathifying it to make sure it is not None. > > Perhaps it should throw ValueError? Without checking, I suspect it is merely doing str(x) or unicode(x) on whatever is passed to it: >>>

Re: PyGTK or wxPython (not a flame war) on Windows

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Torsten Bronger wrote: > Marek Kubica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I have started GUIs in Python with wx, but after a short time I >>was annoyed how many things were buggy. I don't know why, but I >>fell from one bug to the other while programming one application. > > I'm very suprised. wxPython

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Current change: > > * Add base() method for converting to str/unicode. Would basestring() be a better name? Partly because that seems to be exactly what it's doing, but more because there are (or used to be?) other things in Path that used the word "base", such as

Re: [path-PEP] Path inherits from basestring again

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
Michael Hoffman wrote: > Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: >> Tony Meyer wrote: >>> Do people really like using __div__ to mean join? >> >> I'm not too happy with it, too, but do we have alternatives? ... >> Of course, one can use joinwith() if he doesn't like '/'. > > I've used the path module pretty

Re: Problem loading a file of words

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
teoryn wrote: > I changed to using line = line.strip() instead of line = line [:-1] in > the original and it it worked. Just to be clear, these don't do nearly the same thing in general, though in your specific case they might appear similar. The line[:-1] idiom says 'return a string which is a

Re: Counting processors

2005-07-25 Thread Pauldoo
Yeh well I know of /proc/cpuinfo (due to linux's hacked up non-unix /proc, *grumble*) and the NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS environment variable on windows. I was just hoping for a slightly more platform independant way of doing it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Path PEP: What should Path(None) do?

2005-07-25 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
Michael Hoffman wrote: > Currently it returns Path('None'). This means I have to do a check on > input before pathifying it to make sure it is not None. > > Perhaps it should throw ValueError? The problem is that Path() currently acts like str() and will therefore accept almost anything that has

Re: Opinions on KYLIX 3 (Delphi 4 Linux)

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Maas
Jeff Epler schrieb: > I honestly don't know why anyone would spend money for a development > environment, no matter how fancy. I don't know why anyone would develop > software in a language that doesn't have at least one open > implementation. FreePascal is OSS. I recently developed a mixed Delph

Re: GPRS Connection name on Python s60

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I have a question for the experts of Python for series60! > > When I use the ".connect" method of the socket, a list with all > connection available pop-up, and, after selecting one, the soft go on. > > My question is that: Can i use the ".connect" method passing co

Path PEP: What should Path(None) do?

2005-07-25 Thread Michael Hoffman
Currently it returns Path('None'). This means I have to do a check on input before pathifying it to make sure it is not None. Perhaps it should throw ValueError? -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How can I encode something in base32 preferably very fast?

2005-07-25 Thread Johannes Findeisen
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:23 +0300, Elmo Mäntynen wrote: > I want to encode a plaindigest or a hexdigest in base 32. Any hints? Search Google for "python base32" isn't as hard... First result are the original python lib documentation: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-base64.html I think you nee

Re: Problem loading a file of words

2005-07-25 Thread teoryn
I changed to using line = line.strip() instead of line = line [:-1] in the original and it it worked. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem loading a file of words

2005-07-25 Thread teoryn
I was just happy that it worked, but was still curious as to why it didn't before. Thanks for the idea, I'll look into it and see if this is the case. Thanks, Kevin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How can I encode something in base32 preferably very fast?

2005-07-25 Thread Elmo Mäntynen
I want to encode a plaindigest or a hexdigest in base 32. Any hints? Elmo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Importing User-defined Modules

2005-07-25 Thread and-google
Walter Brunswick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to import modules with user-defined file extensions > that differ from '.py', and also (if possible) redirect the > bytecode output of the file to a file of a user-defined > extension. You shouldn't really need a PEP for that; you can take cont

Re: PyGTK or wxPython (not a flame war) on Windows

2005-07-25 Thread Jarek Zgoda
TPJ napisał(a): >>PyQt works equally well on both systems. > > I believe you. The problem is I don't like GPL. So, buy commercial license for Qt and PyQt. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Getting a dictionary from an object

2005-07-25 Thread bruno modulix
John Machin wrote: > Dark Cowherd wrote: > >>> voiceless-ly'rs >> >> >> What does this mean?? Just curious (googled that and ly'rs and didnt >> find anything relevant) s/ly'rs/ly y'rs/ > The voiceless part I understand to mean that Bruno is "shocked and > stunned and not a little bit amazed" [1]

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