ANN: PAMIE web dev testing with Internet Explorer (2 New ShowMeDo.com Videos)

2006-10-05 Thread Ian Ozsvald
Summary: Robert Marchetti has created two videos showing you how to use his PAMIE tool to interactively drive Internet Explorer for web development and testing: http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=pythonMarchettiPamieSeries Detail: The first PAMIE video covers driving IE interactively

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: David Goodger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at the results again. Jira and RoundUp tied for functionality, but Jira has a hosting/admin offer behind it. That's huge. But rather than declaring Jira the outright winner, which they could have done, the committee has allowed

Re: dictionary of list from a file

2006-10-05 Thread Peter Otten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d = {} for line in [l[:-1] for l in file('test.txt', 'rU') if len(l)1]: k,v = line.split() d.setdefault(k,[]).append(v) Try that with a test.txt where the last line has no newline. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steve Holden wrote: You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing effort to support the open source tracker. http://www.userland.com/whatIsStopEnergy /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Terry Reedy wrote: Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The whole point of moving *from* SF *to* another bug tracker is to improve the situation, surely. The current situation is that the limitations and intermittant failures of the SF tracker

Re: Urlnames in urllib2

2006-10-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 4/10/2006 21:03, goyatlah wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to get the exact opened url after a urlopen in urllib2. Say you have a link : http://myhost/mypath : what do I get back, - the file mypath on myhost - the file index.html on myhost/mypath, - or maybe something else.

Re: Definition of '1j'?

2006-10-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 4/10/2006 21:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering how/where the syntax for, e.g., 1j is defined. Is it something I can define myself? In particular, I make very heavy use of Nope - it's hardcoded inside the parser (see tokenizer.c) a complex unit other than j (I'll call

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Steve Holden wrote: you're not on the infrastructure list, I hear. python.org could still need a few more roundup volunteers, but it's not like nobody's prepared to con- tribute manhours. don't underestimate the community. No, I'm not on the infrastructure list, but I

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the PSF infrastracture committee, after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Steve Holden wrote: Excellent. I've just complained elsewhere in this thread that those dissenting didn't appear to want to rectify the situation by offering their time. It would be nice to be wrong about that. the dissenting won't contribute a thing, of course. they never ever do. but

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I'd prefer it if you'd drop this subject. So, if you have nothing new to say, kindly leave it. I'm happy to, but: You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing effort to support the open source tracker. This was addressed in a

Re: Hands on Documentation for Python methods and Library

2006-10-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Thursday 5/10/2006 01:54, Wijaya Edward wrote: One can do the following with Perl $ perldoc -f chomp $ perldoc -f function_name or $ perldoc List::MoreUtils $ perldoc Some::Module Can we do the same thing in Python? s/perl/py/g See the pydoc module. Gabriel Genellina Softlab SRL

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Tim Peters
[Ben Finney] I don't see why you're being so obtuse [Terry Reedy] I think name calling is out of line here. Name calling is always out of line on comp.lang.python. Unless it's done by Guido. Then it's OK. Anyone else, just remind them that even Hitler had better manners. That always calms

Re: CGI Tutorial

2006-10-05 Thread Gerold Penz
Clodoaldo Pinto Neto schrieb: http://webpython.codepoint.net Great tutorial -- Thanks a lot!!! :D -- Gerold Penz - bcom - Programmierung [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://gerold.bcom.at | http://sw3.at Ehrliche,

user modules

2006-10-05 Thread Cameron Walsh
Hi, I'm writing a python program to analyse and export volumetric data. To make development and extension easier, and to make it more useful to the public when it is released (LGPL), I would like to enable users to place their own python files in a user_extensions directory. These files

Assertion in Python

2006-10-05 Thread vmalhotra
Hi All, I want to do verification in my scripts. So for that what i am doing here are shown below: 1. Telnet to one router. 2. Configure router. 3. Configure routing. Now after doing all these i have to check showinterfaces. So i execute command show interface and saved the output in one file.

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Eric Brunel
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:02:56 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Brunel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the problem happens sometimes on one of my Tkinter applications, but I never succeeded in reproducing it systematically. I've browsed the tcl bugs, but didn't find

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Ben Finney wrote: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I'd prefer it if you'd drop this subject. So, if you have nothing new to say, kindly leave it. I'm happy to, but: You appear to be prepared to go to any length short of providing effort to support the open source tracker.

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Eric Brunel wrote: AFAIK, Tkinter is not thread safe. Using some kind of lock to serialize the calls from different threads may seem to work (I never tested it actually), but the safest way I found to use threads with Tkinter was to call it only from the thread where the main loop

Re: How can I correct an error in an old post?

2006-10-05 Thread Tim Roberts
Jorgen Grahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:36:24 +0100, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd appreciate it if all concerned would close this thread now. I think you are overreacting. This was a thread with three (3) postings, in a high-volume newsgroup, with no

Re: hex sending

2006-10-05 Thread Tim Roberts
hiroc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s.send(abc) # send test string I need to send hex:10 06 00 0f 02 bc d1 instead of abc hoW? One ugly way is s.send( \x10\x06\x00\x0f\x02\xbc\xd1 ) -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza Boekelheide, Inc. --

Re: Assertion in Python

2006-10-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Thursday 5/10/2006 04:09, vmalhotra wrote: Now the problem which i am facing is how to do assertion from that output. e.g output is something like this eth0 is up OSPF not enabled on this interface eth1 is up Internet Address 192.168.1.2/24, Area 0.0.0.0 Router ID 192.168.1.2, Network

Re: hex sending

2006-10-05 Thread Paul Rubin
hiroc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s.send(abc) # send test string I need to send hex:10 06 00 0f 02 bc d1 instead of abc See the binascii module: import binascii # a2b_hex stands for ascii to binary conversion, hex format # you must remove the spaces binary = binascii.a2b_hex

Re: Long Tkinter Menu

2006-10-05 Thread Eric Brunel
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:33:54 +0200, Dustan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this is because of Tkinter (ie Tk) itself or the Windows default way of handling things, but when I create a very long menu (my test is shown below), the way it displays is rather sucky; the menu stretches

Re: A Universe Set

2006-10-05 Thread Duncan Booth
Wildemar Wildenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorgen Grahn wrote: - the wildcard object, which compares equal to everything else - infinite xrange()s - the black hole function 'def f(*args): pass' - the identity function 'def f(x): return x' Any use cases for these? I guess the first

Applications written in TkInter

2006-10-05 Thread Franz Steinhaeusler
Hi, I wonder, if there is a site with a collection of written TkInter programs. I did not find any summary. for pyGtk there exist for example: http://www.pygtk.org/applications.html and for wxPython: http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/wxPythonPit_Apps -- Franz Steinhaeusler --

Re: Where is Python in the scheme of things?

2006-10-05 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
gord wrote: As a complete novice in the study of Python, I am asking myself where this language is superior or better suited than others. For example, all I see in the tutorials are lots of examples of list processing, arithmetic calculations - all in a DOS-like environment.

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Ilias Lazaridis wrote: Giovanni Bajo wrote: Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the PSF infrastracture committee, after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Russell E. Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Controller/lib python display.py UpdateStringProc should not be invoked for type font Aborted ... Everything seems to

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Brunel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:33:55 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Controller/lib python display.py UpdateStringProc should not be

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Georg Brandl wrote: The python foundation suggests a non-python non-open-source bugtracking tool for python. Actually, it suggests two bugtracking tools, one of them written in Python. the announcemant's subject line said recommendation for a new issue tracker, though; not we need the

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Georg Brandl
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Georg Brandl wrote: The python foundation suggests a non-python non-open-source bugtracking tool for python. Actually, it suggests two bugtracking tools, one of them written in Python. the announcemant's subject line said recommendation for a new issue tracker,

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Paul Rubin
Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure how to do this - once I have called the Tkinter mainloop - that main thread is essentially event driven - and figuring out how to get it to poll a queue for content is not obvious - I suppose I could arrange some external wake up event

Re: Access to static members from inside a method decorator?

2006-10-05 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm developing a library at the moment that involves many classes, some of which have exposed capabilities. I'm trying to design a nice interface for both exposing those capabilities, and inspecting instances to find out what capabilities they have. At the moment,

embedding python -- windows specify problems

2006-10-05 Thread John Pye
Hi all I have been working on some new code that embeds python in an C application. The embedding is working fine under Linux but crashing under Windows (XP) when I reach the following step. PyRun_AnyFile(f,name); If there's some python exception being thrown by the PyRun_AnyFile call, how

Re: Hands on Documentation for Python methods and Library

2006-10-05 Thread Richard Jones
Wijaya Edward wrote: One can do the following with Perl $ perldoc -f chomp $ perldoc -f function_name $ pydoc dir $ pydoc function_name or $ pydoc math $ pydoc module_name Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Martin v. Löwis wrote: In fact, are you absolutely positive that you need so much effort to maintain an existing bugtracker installation? I know for sure that GCC's Bugzilla installation is pretty much on its own; Daniel Berlin does some maintainance every once in a while (upgrading when new

Multiple calls to logging.config.fileConfig

2006-10-05 Thread Almad
Hi, our applications can have plugins as subpackages and I'd like to allow them to use their own logger as well as it's configuration. I thought that best way will be their own configuration file passed to fileConfig. However, I run into problems... 1) It seems that I cannot refer to something

Re: embedding python -- windows specify problems

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Pye wrote: I have been working on some new code that embeds python in an C application. The embedding is working fine under Linux but crashing under Windows (XP) when I reach the following step. PyRun_AnyFile(f,name); If there's some python exception being thrown by the PyRun_AnyFile

Re: embedding python -- windows specify problems

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
the contents and the layout of the FILE structure isn't defined isn't standardized, that is. /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: dictionary of list from a file

2006-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
limodou wrote: On 4 Oct 2006 13:11:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: limodou wrote: here is my program d = {} for line in file('test.txt'): line = line.strip() if line: k, v = line.strip().split() d.setdefault(k, []).append(v)

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Brunel wrote: AFAIK, Tkinter is not thread safe. Using some kind of lock to serialize the calls from different threads may seem to work (I never tested it actually), but the safest way I found to use threads with Tkinter was to call it only

Re: dictionary of list from a file

2006-10-05 Thread Peter Otten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for line in (l.rstrip(\n) for l in file(test.txt, rU) if l[0] != \n):    k, v = line.split()    d.setdefault(k, []).append(v) Note that this snippet will produce the same output with or without the rstrip() method call. Peter --

Re: Where is Python in the scheme of things?

2006-10-05 Thread Andy Dingley
gord wrote: As a complete novice in the study of Python, I am asking myself where this language is superior or better suited than others. I use it, and see it primarily, as a Perl killer. It also does for Ruby and our infernal shell scripts. I've never considered using Python instead of VB.

Re: releasing memory to malloc

2006-10-05 Thread MrJean1
The memory manager in the latest Python release 2.5 does return freed memory to the underlying system, if possible. For more details, see the 5th bullet on this page http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/ports.html. /Jean Brouwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The workaround I went with made use of

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure how to do this - once I have called the Tkinter mainloop - that main thread is essentially event driven - and figuring out how to get it to poll a queue for content is not obvious - I

Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
Ok, not really python focused, but it feels like the people here could explain it for me :) Now, I started programming when I was 8 with BBC Basic. I never took any formal classes however, and I have never become an expert programmer. I'm an average/hobbyist programmer with quite a few languages

Re: Long Tkinter Menu

2006-10-05 Thread Dustan
Eric Brunel wrote: On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:33:54 +0200, Dustan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if this is because of Tkinter (ie Tk) itself or the Windows default way of handling things, but when I create a very long menu (my test is shown below), the way it displays is rather sucky;

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
Do whichever makes you happy I'd say The only real difference is coding style and the formatting options of the %s way that I can see. %s is negligibly slower in my tests, but we're talking the tiniest fraction of a second over thousands of iterations, not worth considering... -h Hari Sekhon

Re: Python/Tkinter crash.

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Brunel wrote: AFAIK, Tkinter is not thread safe. Using some kind of lock to serialize the calls from different threads may seem to work (I never tested it actually), but the safest way I found to use threads with Tkinter

RE: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Tim Golden
[Matthew Warren] | Now, I started programming when I was 8 with BBC Basic. Hey, likewise! (Except I was 12 when it came out!) | I learned over the years to do things like the following, and I like | doing it like this because of readability, something Python seems to | focus on :- | | Print

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Mikael Olofsson
Matthew Warren wrote: I learned over the years to do things like the following, and I like doing it like this because of readability, something Python seems to focus on :- Print There are +number+ ways to skin a +furryanimal But nowadays, I see things like this all over the place;

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Matthew Warren wrote: I learned over the years to do things like the following, and I like doing it like this because of readability, something Python seems to focus on :- Print There are +number+ ways to skin a +furryanimal But nowadays, I see things like this all

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Duncan Booth
Matthew Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Print There are +number+ ways to skin a +furryanimal But nowadays, I see things like this all over the place; print(There are %s ways to skin a %s % (number, furryanimal)) Now I understand there can be additional formatting benefits when dealing

Testing if an object is a function

2006-10-05 Thread Claus Tondering
If I want to test if an object, x, is an integer, I can call isinstance(x, int). But what do I do if I want to test if x is a function? I can do this: if isinstance(x, type(lambda: None)): ... But it does not seem very elegant to me. Surely there is a simpler way to specify a type object

Re: Testing if an object is a function

2006-10-05 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Claus Tondering wrote: But what do I do if I want to test if x is a function? I can do this: if isinstance(x, type(lambda: None)): ... But it does not seem very elegant to me. Surely there is a simpler way to specify a type object that is the type of a function. if callable(x):

Re: excepthook doesn't give exact line number

2006-10-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
I've tried the sample code you provided but it seems to just hang, it must be doing something but unfortunately it must take too long, by which time a second control-c gives an awful dual traceback message showing the original traceback and the new one from the tbiter() func. I've tried a few

RE: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
| Now, I started programming when I was 8 with BBC Basic. Hey, likewise! (Except I was 12 when it came out!) I think it came out before I was 8, and I started out with print and input. Not sure if that's 'real' programming - I don't think I graduated to ifs and thens and gotos and gosubs

Re: A Universe Set

2006-10-05 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:00:28 -0400, Leif K-Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorgen Grahn wrote: - infinite xrange()s itertools.count()? Oops! You're right. The itertools documentation even refers to the SML and Haskell languages. And it contains itertools.izip(), another thing on my wish

RE: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
Also, having a variable of type str called 'number' seems perverse (and probably error prone), so I suspect I might need something like: And not something I would normally do, but for hastily written contrived examples I might :) print There are +str(number)+ ways to skin a

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Duncan Booth wrote: print There are+number+ways to skin a+furryanimal or at least something equivalent to it. If I try to make the same mistake with a format string it jumps out to me as wrong: There are%sways to skin a%s % (number, furryanimal) Related to this, formatting with

Re: Testing if an object is a function

2006-10-05 Thread Claus Tondering
Fredrik Lundh wrote: if callable(x): Perfect. Thank you. -- Claus Tondering -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: excepthook doesn't give exact line number

2006-10-05 Thread Hari Sekhon
Thanks for the pointer, I've now got this giving me the right line number when an exception occurs, although I still get an empty stack trace from print "Stack Trace:\n%s\n" % str(traceback.print_exc(2)) inside the excepthook. Any ideas why this is? Is there no traceback since the

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Maric Michaud
Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 13:16, Ivan Voras a écrit : print '+var1+','+var2'+,+var3 the above is much more readable as print '%s', '%s', %s % (var1, var2, var3) It feels not IMO, one proof I see is that you forgot the spaces after periods in your first example, and it's even not easy to

RE: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
Duncan Booth wrote: print There are+number+ways to skin a+furryanimal or at least something equivalent to it. If I try to make the same mistake with a format string it jumps out to me as wrong: There are%sways to skin a%s % (number, furryanimal) Related to this, formatting

Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-05 Thread MonkeeSage
I know that python doesn't allow extending built-in objects like the str class; but you can subclass them using a class of the same name and thus shadow them to get the same general effect (albeit you have to use the explicit constructor rather than literals). class str(str): def display(self):

RE: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Tim Golden
[Matthew Warren] | Blame outlook and AutoCaps. If number were a number I would write | | print There are,number,ways to skin a +furryanimal You see now that strikes me as a bit mixed up. Why not simply use? print a, number, c, string | altho' print is slated for replacement by a function in

Re: A Universe Set

2006-10-05 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:02:51 +0200, Wildemar Wildenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorgen Grahn wrote: Any use cases for these? - the wildcard object, which compares equal to everything else Like someone else wrote, for quick-and-dirty comparisons or lists and dictionaries where I don't

Re: dictionary of list from a file

2006-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Otten wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for line in (l.rstrip(\n) for l in file(test.txt, rU) if l[0] != \n): \001\001\001k,\001v\001=\001line.split() \001\001\001d.setdefault(k,\001[]).append(v) Note that this snippet will produce the same output with or without the rstrip()

Re: Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
MonkeeSage wrote: I know that python doesn't allow extending built-in objects like the str class; but you can subclass them using a class of the same name and thus shadow them to get the same general effect (albeit you have to use the explicit constructor rather than literals). class

RE: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
[Matthew Warren] | Blame outlook and AutoCaps. If number were a number I would write | | print There are,number,ways to skin a +furryanimal You see now that strikes me as a bit mixed up. Why not simply use? print a, number, c, string Habit (not always a good thing..), and it helps

Asychronous execution *with* return codes?

2006-10-05 Thread utabintarbo
I hope I have not overlooked a solution already posted, but I seem to be unable to suss out a way to achieve both multiple console-less executions of a given (console) application and gathering the return code from the application. What I have found: code import subprocess # gives back return

Re: Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-05 Thread MonkeeSage
Steve Holden wrote: Unfortunately the literals are interpreted during bytecode generation, before the compiled program is available, and your modifications to __builtns__ haven't been made, so the answer is no, I'm afraid. Ah! That makes sense. I guess the only way to do it would be to add an

Re: Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-05 Thread Maric Michaud
Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 14:20, Steve Holden a écrit : Unfortunately the literals are interpreted during bytecode generation, before the compiled program is available, and your modifications to __builtns__ haven't been made, so the answer is no, I'm afraid. But what prevents to interpret

Re: Asychronous execution *with* return codes?

2006-10-05 Thread MonkeeSage
utabintarbo wrote: pid = subprocess.Popen([app] + lstArgs).pid Check out the poll() method and the returncode attribute: http://docs.python.org/lib/node533.html Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: embedding python -- windows specify problems

2006-10-05 Thread John Pye
Hi Fredrik, Thanks very much for that reply. Your suggestion sounds feasible, I guess. Taking what you said, and thinking about how I could avoid adding an additional intepreter step, I thought that I could try the following: pyfile = PyFile_FromString(name,r); if(pyfile==NULL){

RE: dictionary of list from a file

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
- Python 2.5 introduced a dictionary type with automatic creation of values, ala Perl: === from collections import defaultdict d = defaultdict(list) for line in fl: k, v = line.strip().split() d[k].append(v) for k,v in

RE: dictionary of list from a file

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] rg] On Behalf Of Giovanni Bajo Sent: 04 October 2006 15:17 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: dictionary of list from a file [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while(IN){ @info=split(/ +/,$_);

Re: can't open chm files all of a sudden

2006-10-05 Thread John Salerno
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:36:10 -0400, John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: John Machin wrote: 4. Have you done a full virus and spy-ware scan? Do you regularly install Windows updates from Microsoft? Well, this is certainly the

Re: Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Holden
Maric Michaud wrote: Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 14:20, Steve Holden a écrit : Unfortunately the literals are interpreted during bytecode generation, before the compiled program is available, and your modifications to __builtns__ haven't been made, so the answer is no, I'm afraid. But what

Re: socket client server... simple example... not working...

2006-10-05 Thread SpreadTooThin
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: On 4 Oct 2006 19:31:38 -0700, SpreadTooThin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: client: import socket s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect((192.168.1.101, 8080)) print 'Connected' s.send('ABCD') Here you didn't check the return value of send

Re: Python to use a non open source bug tracker?

2006-10-05 Thread skip
Ben This thread was started on the shock of realising that a non-free Ben tool was even being *considered* for the new Python bug Ben tracker. Those are the terms on which I've been arguing. Of course, the candidate trackers have been known for months. Messages have been posted to

How do I read Excel file in Python?

2006-10-05 Thread kath
How do I read an Excel file in Python? I have found a package to read excel file, which can be used on any platform. http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm I installed and working on the examples, I found its printing of cell's contents in a different manner. import xlrd

Getting a ValueError with comtypes

2006-10-05 Thread winkatl1213
Hello, I am working with comtypes to interface Microsoft's DirectShow library. First, I found a Type Library on the internet that was created for accessing DirectShow from .NET. It seems that DirectShow only comes with IDL files and no type library. This got me started. The following line

Re: Asychronous execution *with* return codes?

2006-10-05 Thread utabintarbo
MonkeeSage wrote: utabintarbo wrote: pid = subprocess.Popen([app] + lstArgs).pid Check out the poll() method and the returncode attribute: http://docs.python.org/lib/node533.html Thanks for the reply. If I understand your meaning, I should do something like this (given I wish to run an

Re: What value should be passed to make a function use the default argument value?

2006-10-05 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-10-04, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Georg Brandl wrote: This is an issue in most Python documentation: you're not told if the described function is implemented in C, and if it is keyword arg-enabled. The arguments must be given names though, to be able to document them.

Re: socket client server... simple example... not working...

2006-10-05 Thread Jean-Paul Calderone
On 5 Oct 2006 07:01:50 -0700, SpreadTooThin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Jean-Paul many thanks for this and your effort. but why is it every time I try to do something with 'stock' python I need another package? Maybe you are trying to do things that are too complex :) By the time I've

Re: Subclassing built-in classes

2006-10-05 Thread Maric Michaud
Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 15:52, Steve Holden a écrit : But what prevents to interpret literals as a call to __builtins__ objects and functions ? optimization ? what else ? When are literals interpreted? During translation into bytecode. agreed, but what's the problem with this ? We can

building strings from variables

2006-10-05 Thread Gal Diskin
Following a discussion with an associate at work about various ways to build strings from variables in python, I'd like to hear your opinions and preferred methods. The methods we discussed are: 1. some_string = cd %s ; %s %d %s %s % ( working_dir, ssh_cmd, some_count, some_param1, some_param2)

Oracle database export

2006-10-05 Thread Tor Erik Soenvisen
Hi, I need to export an Oracle database to a DDL-formated file. On the Web, I found a Python script that did exactly this for a MS Access database, but not one for Oracle databases. Does anyone know of such a tool or Python script. regards tores --

Restoring override of urllib.URLopener.open_https

2006-10-05 Thread Bakker A
Hi, the M2Crypto library overrides the urllib.URLopener.open_https method, causing a urllib.urlopen to a https: server to fail in my case. My python is not that strong, so is there a way to set urllib.URLopener.open_https back to the original code? I prefer not to modify M2Crypto. Thanks,

Re: Access to static members from inside a method decorator?

2006-10-05 Thread glen . coates . bigworld
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm developing a library at the moment that involves many classes, some of which have exposed capabilities. I'm trying to design a nice interface for both exposing those capabilities, and inspecting instances to find out what

Re: MySQLdb for Python 2.5

2006-10-05 Thread FatherAntox
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Harold Trammel schrieb: Does anyone know the status of a version of MySQLdb that will work with Python 2.5? AFAICT, MySQLdb 1.2.1 builds and works just fine. Regards, Martin Hi Martin, What is your setup as I am receiving a number of Cannot open ... errors

Re: How do I read Excel file in Python?

2006-10-05 Thread John Machin
kath wrote: How do I read an Excel file in Python? I have found a package to read excel file, which can be used on any platform. Hi Sudhir, So far, so good :-) http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm I installed and working on the examples, I found its printing of cell's contents in a

Re: Getting a ValueError with comtypes

2006-10-05 Thread Thomas Heller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hello, I am working with comtypes to interface Microsoft's DirectShow library. Cool, another one using comtypes! First, I found a Type Library on the internet that was created for accessing DirectShow from .NET. It seems that DirectShow only comes with IDL

Re: Access to static members from inside a method decorator?

2006-10-05 Thread Maric Michaud
Le jeudi 05 octobre 2006 17:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : I guess my solution is slightly less elegant because it requires this ugly explicit init call outside the classes that it actually deals with, however it is more efficient because the dir() pass happens once on module load, instead of

RE: building strings from variables

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Warren
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] rg] On Behalf Of Gal Diskin Sent: 05 October 2006 16:01 To: python-list@python.org Subject: building strings from variables Following a discussion with an associate at work about various ways to build

Re: Asychronous execution *with* return codes?

2006-10-05 Thread Justin
If you're on a POSIX system, you could use the usual fork/exec/wait: import os for lstArgs in pileOflstArgs: pid = os.fork() if not pid: os.execv( app, lstArgs ) for i in range(len(pileOflstArgs)): pid, status = os.wait() Of couse, os.wait() will block until a child exits.

Re: user modules

2006-10-05 Thread Tuomas
Cameron Walsh wrote: Hi, I'm writing a python program to analyse and export volumetric data. To make development and extension easier, and to make it more useful to the public when it is released (LGPL), I would like to enable users to place their own python files in a user_extensions

Re: Why do this?

2006-10-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Matthew Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I learned over the years to do things like the following, and I like doing it like this because of readability, something Python seems to focus on :- Print There are +number+ ways to skin a +furryanimal In python:

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