attaching an excel file using MIME in smtp

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
does anyone know how to attach an excel file to send out using smtplib and MIME? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: passing string from one file to another

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
I V wrote: > Kun wrote: >> mail currently gets the body from an input box. >> >> this is where mail.py gets invoked: > > OK, I'm a bit confused. Where is the "initial python program" in all > this? You seem to have an one python program (mail.py) and an HTML > form. As it stands, I don't see why y

any update to this?

2006-04-16 Thread micklee74
hi i was looking at this : http://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons.html on comparisons of python and other languages? are there any updates to this doc? or is there other reliable source for such comparison elsewhere? thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: passing string from one file to another

2006-04-16 Thread I V
Kun wrote: > mail currently gets the body from an input box. > > this is where mail.py gets invoked: OK, I'm a bit confused. Where is the "initial python program" in all this? You seem to have an one python program (mail.py) and an HTML form. As it stands, I don't see why you can't change mail.py

Re: passing string from one file to another

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
I V wrote: > Kun wrote: >> This works fine but instead of typing in a 'body', i would like the >> initial python program to just send a string as the body of the email. >> now normally i'd just set the msg in the mail.py file equal to the >> string, however, i do not know how to link a string from

locale, format monetary values

2006-04-16 Thread Rares Vernica
Hi, Can I use locale to format monetary values? If yes, how? If no, is there something I can use? E.g., I have 1 and I want to get "$10,000". Thanks, Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: passing string from one file to another

2006-04-16 Thread I V
Kun wrote: > This works fine but instead of typing in a 'body', i would like the > initial python program to just send a string as the body of the email. > now normally i'd just set the msg in the mail.py file equal to the > string, however, i do not know how to link a string from another python >

Re: Why new Python 2.5 feature "class C()" return old-style class ?

2006-04-16 Thread Alex Martelli
Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > >Example: I use usually a very simple classes. When I add "(object)" to > >my class definitions, the code continues to works fine -- plus I have > >new features to use. Why this cannot be done automatically? What could > >be broken in the old code if it was

Re: passing string from one file to another

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
Kun wrote: > I have a python-cgi form whose sole purpose is to email. > > It has the fields 'to', 'from', 'subject', 'body', etc. and if the user > fills them out and clicks submit, it will invoke another file called > mail.py which uses smtplib to send the message. > > This works fine but inst

passing string from one file to another

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
I have a python-cgi form whose sole purpose is to email. It has the fields 'to', 'from', 'subject', 'body', etc. and if the user fills them out and clicks submit, it will invoke another file called mail.py which uses smtplib to send the message. This works fine but instead of typing in a 'body'

Decode html, or is it unicode, how?

2006-04-16 Thread brandon.mcginty
Hi All, I've done a bunch of searching in google and in python's help, but, I haven't found any function to decode a string like: Refresh! (ihenvyr) In to plain english. I'd also looked for the urldecode function in urllib, but that had been deprecated. If anyone here can give me a hand, I'd aprish

Re: Why new Python 2.5 feature "class C()" return old-style class ?

2006-04-16 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petr Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Aahz" wrote... >> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >>>Aahz a écrit : Classic classes are *NOT* deprecated. >>> >>>Perhaps not *officially* yet... >> >> Not even unofficially. The point at which we have deprecation is whe

Re: py2exe problem

2006-04-16 Thread bwaha
"Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > bwaha wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I definitely have only one version installed. > > In fact I uninstalled it and installed an earlier version (2.5.5.1) to see > > if it was specifically wxPython related. No c

Re: filling today's date in a form

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > Em Dom, 2006-04-16 às 19:22 -0400, Kun escreveu: >> i have a form > > Which kind of form? Which toolkit? > >> which takes in inputs for a mysql query. one of the inputs >> is 'date'. normally, a user has to manually enter a date, > > Enter the date in which kind

Re: Should I learn Python instead?

2006-04-16 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
"fyleow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a student/hobbyist programmer interested in creating a web project. I'm a student too and I've done a little Python web related stuff long ago. > It's nothing too complicated, I would like to get data from an RSS > feed and store that into a database.

Re: Upgrading and modules

2006-04-16 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Brian Elmegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't it includes every possible module, e.g., py2exe, ctypes, > mysqldb, wxpython... Right but since Python doesn't have a full-integrated central packaging (despite the ongoing Pypi project and Eby's efforts in setuptools) you have to do it manual

Re: XML-RPC server via xinetd

2006-04-16 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Jos Vos wrote: > > The problem is that the server initialization *requires* a server > address (host, port pair), but I don't see how to tell it to use > the stdin socket (and I'm afraid this is not possible, but I'm not > sure). > If I understood it correctly you want the python server bind be

PyWeek done

2006-04-16 Thread Carl Banks
If anyone wants a little dose of what Python can do in a week, PyWeek is done. All these games were written in one week; there's some real impressive ones. No homemade C extensions, either. http://www.pyweek.org/2/ My entry (Army of Aerojockey) didn't do so well, unfortunately. Well, I was aim

Re: List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-16 Thread Terry Reedy
"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:37:44 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: >> Do you really need the items sorted? I strongly suspect that a set >> would >> work better. Much easier to randomly add, delete, and check membership. > > T

Re: Validate XML against DTD and/or XML Schema?

2006-04-16 Thread Jim
For DTD's: have you stumbled across: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/220472 ? Jim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python certification/training

2006-04-16 Thread Dan Sommers
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:04:21 -0500, Richard Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aahz wrote: >> Then may I suggest that you subscribe to the tutor list? That will >> give you a good place to ask questions; as you learn Python, >> answering other people's questions will give you a good way to hon

Re: filling today's date in a form

2006-04-16 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
Em Dom, 2006-04-16 às 19:22 -0400, Kun escreveu: > i have a form Which kind of form? Which toolkit? > which takes in inputs for a mysql query. one of the inputs > is 'date'. normally, a user has to manually enter a date, Enter the date in which kind of control? > but i am > wondering if th

filling today's date in a form

2006-04-16 Thread Kun
i have a form which takes in inputs for a mysql query. one of the inputs is 'date'. normally, a user has to manually enter a date, but i am wondering if there is a way to create a button which would automatically insert today's date in the date form field if the user chooses to use today's dat

Re: Async Sleep?

2006-04-16 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Aleksandar Cikota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How to check this every 10 sec, but that the CPU is free? Or better still, why not set a notification on the directory, so you're woken up every time something happens to it? Look up the inotify mechanism, which wa

Re: Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-16 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My major problem with Matlab is not the language; it is a quite nice >language, comparable to Python and R. Having done a bunch of MATLAB GUI programming for a client a few years ago, I would not agree that MATLAB is a "nice" lang

Re: XML-RPC server via xinetd

2006-04-16 Thread Jos Vos
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:13:19PM +0200, Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Isn't this just a standard daemon functionality? What is "a standard daemon"? :-) > So if you could wrap up your program in a daemon like fashion (e.g. > http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/daemon.py) and then point the >

Re: Help for a complete newbie

2006-04-16 Thread John Machin
On 17/04/2006 12:22 AM, fatal.serpent top-posted: > There was an extra space before ready. Space? Strange. Both Google groups & my newsreader display it as 8 spaces. I could have sworn it was a tab. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-16 Thread John Machin
On 17/04/2006 5:13 AM, John Zenger top-posted: > Yup, join is better. The problem with using form.values() is that it > will break if the HTML changes and adds some sort of new field that this > function does not care about, or if an attacker introduces bogus fields > into his query. If one is

Re: Python certification/training

2006-04-16 Thread Richard Marsden
Aahz wrote: > Then may I suggest that you subscribe to the tutor list? That will give > you a good place to ask questions; as you learn Python, answering other > people's questions will give you a good way to hone your own knowledge. Which is? :-) Richard (who might also be interested - in t

Re: keyboard command to break out of infinite loop?

2006-04-16 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Thank you, Scott. I'm still learning my exceptions (obviously, or I wouldn't get stuck in a while loop ;). That was instructive. On my machine, it is Ctrl + Break that does it. Ctrl + C doesn't do anything. What I should really do is figure out roughly how many times the while loop should run, an

Re: XML-RPC server via xinetd

2006-04-16 Thread Martin P. Hellwig
Jos Vos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to implement a XML-RPC server that > is called by xinetd i.s.o. listening on a TCP socket itself. > > I already have implemented a stand-alone XML-RPC server using > SimpleXMLRPCServer, but I now want something similar, that is > started via x

Re: Using Python To Create An Encrypted Container

2006-04-16 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Sonntag 16 April 2006 19:11 schrieb Michael Sperlle: > The only other thing I can think of is making it non-readable for anyone > except root, but have the feeling that's not too secure. Huh? If you don't trust your operating system to correctly validate file-permissions for you (on a server,

Re: PEP 359: The "make" Statement

2006-04-16 Thread Steven Bethard
Tim Hochberg wrote: > Tim Hochberg wrote: >> I don't think that's correct. I think that with a suitably designed >> HtmlDocument object, the following should be possible: >> >> with HtmlDocument("Title") as doc: >> with doc.element("body"): >>doc.text("before first h1") >>with

Re: Sending part of a page as the body of an email

2006-04-16 Thread Jesse Hager
Kun wrote: > I currently have a python-cgi script that extracts data from a mysql > table. I would like to save this data as a string and send it to a > recipient via email. > > I know how to send email using the smtp lib, but what I do not know his > how to save a portion of the page as a str

Re: multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-16 Thread John Zenger
Yup, join is better. The problem with using form.values() is that it will break if the HTML changes and adds some sort of new field that this function does not care about, or if an attacker introduces bogus fields into his query. John Machin wrote: > On 16/04/2006 1:43 PM, John Zenger wrote: >

Re: keyboard command to break out of infinite loop?

2006-04-16 Thread Scott David Daniels
zweistein wrote: > Try CTRL + C. If it doesn't work, CTRL + Pause/Break should also work > (if you're running it from the CLI). > > HTH > Note: this will raise a KeyboardInterrupt exception, which you might inadvertently be catching. If you have been lazy and written: try: ex

Re: keyboard command to break out of infinite loop?

2006-04-16 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Thank you, both. I'll put in on a sticky! rick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python certification/training

2006-04-16 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I asked about training/certification because its proved to be a good >way for me to learn in the past. > >My aim is not to gain recognition but more to measure my understanding >- a sort of benchmark. I have been so far unable to find a

Validate XML against DTD and/or XML Schema?

2006-04-16 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
Hi folks, I have a need to validate XML files against both DTDs and XML Schema from the command line. In an ideal world, I'd be able to do something like: $ python validate.py foo.xml which would then parse and validate foo.xml using the schema or DTD referenced within it. What I'm looking f

Re: Using Python To Create An Encrypted Container

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Sperlle
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:11:12 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Michael Sperlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I could create a large file that could be encrypted, and maybe add >> files to it by appending them and putting in some kind of delimiter >> between files, maybe a homemade version of truecryp

Re: Python certification/training

2006-04-16 Thread chrisBrat
Hi, Thanks for the response. I currently work as a Java developer but I have lots of interest in Python. I asked about training/certification because its proved to be a good way for me to learn in the past. My aim is not to gain recognition but more to measure my understanding - a sort of bench

for sale: internetDotComs.com

2006-04-16 Thread internetDotComs.com
domain for sale: internetdotcoms.com http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=11866440 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Tkinter

2006-04-16 Thread Jay
I still dont quite get it, is their sum kind of way you can [def Newdef + i()] for example so that the def is different from the string, all the buttons now have numbers on If I am not mistaken Fredrik Lundh rote the tutorial Learning to program (Python) www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ and

Re: Using Python To Create An Encrypted Container

2006-04-16 Thread garabik-news-2005-05
Michael Sperlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible? Bestcrypt can supposedly be set up on linux, but it seems > to need changes to the kernel before it can be installed, and I have no > intention of going through whatever hell that would cause. > > If I could create a large file that coul

Re: Python certification/training

2006-04-16 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Are there any certifications that are available for developers learning >Python? Where? > >I'm specifically looking for distance/on-line courses or certifications >but welcome any information available. Question is, what do you want it

Re: Unified web API for CGI and mod_python?

2006-04-16 Thread Tim Chase
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] cd ~tim/WebStack-1.1.2 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] python2.3 setup.py install >>running install >>error: invalid Python installation: unable to open >>/usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory) > > apt-get install python2.3-dev Worked like a charm, and the WebStac

Re: Using Python To Create An Encrypted Container

2006-04-16 Thread Paul Rubin
Michael Sperlle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I could create a large file that could be encrypted, and maybe add > files to it by appending them and putting in some kind of delimiter > between files, maybe a homemade version of truecrypt could be constructed. > Any idea what it would take? If b

Re: Tkinter

2006-04-16 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Jay" wrote: > I wold like to be able to generate buttons from a list in a file. > How would I go about making each button have a different command, > Lets say make the button print its label instead of print "." > > The problem I have is I don't know what the list is going to be until > it is ope

Using Python To Create An Encrypted Container

2006-04-16 Thread Michael Sperlle
Is it possible? Bestcrypt can supposedly be set up on linux, but it seems to need changes to the kernel before it can be installed, and I have no intention of going through whatever hell that would cause. If I could create a large file that could be encrypted, and maybe add files to it by appendin

vote

2006-04-16 Thread memlük
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Tkinter

2006-04-16 Thread Jay
I wold like to be able to generate buttons from a list in a file. How would I go about making each button have a different command, Lets say make the button print its label instead of print "." The problem I have is I don't know what the list is going to be until it is opened or how big so I carne

Re: Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-16 Thread AgenteSegreto
I've been a Matlab user for years and have recently started using Python with matplotlib and NumPy for most of my work. The only thing I found that is still lacking is a 3D capability in matplotlib. I was trying to visualize a hill climbing algorithm and I couldn't find anything comparable to Mat

Re: Help for a complete newbie

2006-04-16 Thread fatal.serpent
There was an extra space before ready. It works otherwise. Use the code below or just remove the space. Heres the fixed code: ready = raw_input("Ready to proceed ? TYPE (y)es or (n)o: ") if ready == "y": print "You are Ready" else: print "Try again" Ralph H. Stoos Jr. wrote: > All

Re: Help with python output redirection

2006-04-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:16:39 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> So, let me say firstly that I wish the following code to be put into >> the public domain > > so you're taking the work by others ("for m in x", "print m", and so on) > and think that by posting it to usenet a

Re: sort in Excel

2006-04-16 Thread MK
u do it like this: from win32com.client import Dispatch xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application") xlApp.Workbooks.Open("D:\python\sortme.csv") xlApp.Range("A1:C100").Sort(Key1=xlApp.Range("B1"), Order1=2) xlApp.ActiveWorkbook.Close(SaveChanges=1) xlApp.Quit() del xlApp -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:05:50 +0800, Fulvio wrote: > On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:37, Terry Reedy wrote: >>Do you really need the items sorted? > > Do you really think he isn't a troll? [scratches head] The OP looks like a beginner trying to experiment with Python as a way of learning how to progr

Re: List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:37:44 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > > "Miguel E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi, >> >> I've been (self) studying Python for the past two months and I have had >> no background in OOP whatsoever. >> >> I was able to write an interactive p

Python certification/training

2006-04-16 Thread chrisBrat
Hi, Are there any certifications that are available for developers learning Python? Where? I'm specifically looking for distance/on-line courses or certifications but welcome any information available. Thanks Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 359: The "make" Statement

2006-04-16 Thread gangesmaster
? i really liked it -tomer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PEP 359: The "make" Statement

2006-04-16 Thread Azolex
Steven Bethard wrote: > Rob Williscroft wrote: >> I don't know wether this has been suggested or not, but what about def: >> >> def namespace ns: >> x = 1 >> >> def type blah(object): >> pass >> >> def property x: >> def get(): >> return ns.x > > I think that's probably a bad idea

Re: keyboard command to break out of infinite loop?

2006-04-16 Thread kodi
BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Running Python on Win XP. > > When running commands with the interpreter, if you get stuck in a while > loop, is there a keyboard command to break out of it? > > Or is the only way out a triple-finger salute and End Task? > > rd ctrl+c or ctrl+c+enter -- http://ma

ANN: Pyrex 0.9.4 - LValue Casts are Dead!

2006-04-16 Thread greg
Pyrex 0.9.4 is now available: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/ Highlights of this version: No more lvalue casts I have redesigned the code generator to eliminate the need for lvalue casting. This means that Pyrex-generated code should now be gcc4-compatib

Re: String pattern matching

2006-04-16 Thread Jim Lewis
>You can do this with a regular expression... I tried the plain RE approach and found it no faster than my direct-coded version. Anyone have any ideas on how to code this problem elegantly without RE? My code is long and cumbersome - 200 lines! Speed is my primary concern but low LOC would be nice

Re: List operation: Removing an item

2006-04-16 Thread Fulvio
On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:37, Terry Reedy wrote: >Do you really need the items sorted? Do you really think he isn't a troll? See the latest thread on lists end related PEP. However there's always some good info on your reply (all of those had reply to OP). F -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: py2exe problem

2006-04-16 Thread Serge Orlov
bwaha wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion, but I definitely have only one version installed. > In fact I uninstalled it and installed an earlier version (2.5.5.1) to see > if it was specifically wxPython related. No change. Then why don't you try to print what is passed to SetValue in the exe, just

Re: Help with python output redirection

2006-04-16 Thread Robert Kern
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>So, let me say firstly that I wish the following code to be put into >>the public domain > > so you're taking the work by others ("for m in x", "print m", and so on) > and think that by posting it to usenet as if you wrote it yourself, you > can r

Re: Calling Python from Matlab

2006-04-16 Thread Carl
Kelvie Wong wrote: > I have a suspicion it is the collaborative effort that is the problem > here -- I try to use Python whenever possible for > engineering/numerical analysis, but the established industry standard > (for most disciplines of engineering) is still MATLAB. > > Although Python is ar

Re: Help with python output redirection

2006-04-16 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > So, let me say firstly that I wish the following code to be put into > the public domain so you're taking the work by others ("for m in x", "print m", and so on) and think that by posting it to usenet as if you wrote it yourself, you can release it into the public domain

Re: Upgrading and modules

2006-04-16 Thread Brian Elmegaard
"BartlebyScrivener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you saying you're on Windows? Yes > http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/ > It's a one-click, msi install with everything you need for win32, > including IDE etc. I don't it includes every possible module, e.g., py2exe, ctypes, m

sort in Excel

2006-04-16 Thread MK
Hello, Does anyone knows how to use the Excel sort function in python? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

sort in Excel

2006-04-16 Thread MK
Hello, Does anyone knows how can I -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

sort in Excel

2006-04-16 Thread MK
Hello, Does anyone knows how can I -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: py2exe problem

2006-04-16 Thread bwaha
"Serge Orlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > bwaha wrote: > > First time trying to create an executable with py2exe. I have a small > > program which makes use of python23 (2.3.5?), wxpython ('2.6.2.1'), > > matplotlib ('0.83.2'), win32com (latest?), Numeric ('23.7'

Re: Unified web API for CGI and mod_python?

2006-04-16 Thread Alexis Roda
Tim Chase escribió: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd ~tim/WebStack-1.1.2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] python2.3 setup.py install > running install > error: invalid Python installation: unable to open > /usr/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or directory) > apt-get install python2.3-dev HTH -- http

Re: keyboard command to break out of infinite loop?

2006-04-16 Thread zweistein
Try CTRL + C. If it doesn't work, CTRL + Pause/Break should also work (if you're running it from the CLI). HTH -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiple parameters in if statement...

2006-04-16 Thread Peter Otten
Kun wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Kun wrote: >>> I am trying to make an if-statement that will not do anything and print >>> 'nothing entered' if there is nothing entered in a form. I have the >>> following code that does that, however, now even if I enter something >> >> Yes, but did you

Re: Async Sleep?

2006-04-16 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> Hi all, > > Does a async sleep exist? > How to check this every 10 sec, but that the CPU is free? I would use a separate thread for this, perhaps even a completely detached daemon. You might want to check the docs for threading: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html and these recipe

Re: Writing backwards compatible code

2006-04-16 Thread Dave Brueck
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I came across an interesting (as in the Chinese curse) problem today. I > had to modify a piece of code using generator expressions written with > Python 2.4 in mind to run under version 2.3, but I wanted the code to > continue to use the generator expression if possible. [

How to pass variable to test class

2006-04-16 Thread Podi
Hi, Newbie question about unittest. I am having trouble passing a variable to a test class object. MyCase class will potentially have many test functions. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, P # File MyCase.py import unittest class MyCase(unittest.TestCase): def __init__(self, val

keyboard command to break out of infinite loop?

2006-04-16 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Running Python on Win XP. When running commands with the interpreter, if you get stuck in a while loop, is there a keyboard command to break out of it? Or is the only way out a triple-finger salute and End Task? rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Iterating through a nested list

2006-04-16 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > for obj in Array: > if isinstance(obj, list): > for item in obj: > print item > else: > print obj I would "reverse" that check and test `obj` for not being a string:: for obj in Array: if not isinstance(ob

Re: multiple parameters in if statement

2006-04-16 Thread John Machin
On 16/04/2006 1:43 PM, John Zenger wrote: > > The other thing I'd recommend is stick that long list of fields in a > list, and then do operations on that list: > > fields = ['delete_id', 'delete_date', 'delete_purchasetype', > 'delete_price', 'delete_comment'] > > then to see if all those fiel