Re: subprocess and PPID

2008-11-05 Thread Michele Petrazzo
Jorgen Grahn wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:19:34 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 5, 5:12 pm, Michele Petrazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I believe that this is a *nix question, but since I'm developing in python, I'm here. I have a code that execute into

Re: modifying a codec

2008-11-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> The codec is doing its job, but I want to override the codepoint for this > character (plus others) to use the html entity instead (from \227 to > — in this case). > > I see hints writing your own codec and updating the decoding_map, but I > could use some more detail. > > Is that the best

Re: damn street venders

2008-11-05 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:31:24 -0500 "Benjamin Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure all of the spam is automated, so your message won't get > through to anyone. Well, it got through to us adding to our spam problem. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is thr

Re: Snippets management

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/5/2008 8:23 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of r: I don't use one, but why not take a stab at coding one yourself. Use Tkinter to start, its easy. well documented gotta learn GUI somehow Since you are recommending tkinter, maybe you know what is the stat

Re: Snippets management

2008-11-05 Thread Edwin B.
r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 5, 7:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin) wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I've been looking for a snippet manager and found PySnippet but it >> requires PyGTK. Do you know any other option that doesn't need much? >> >> I'm sort of new to python and user interfaces seem

modifying a codec

2008-11-05 Thread Tim Arnold
Hi, I'm using the codecs module to read in utf8 and write out cp1252 encodings. For some characters I'd like to override the default behavior. For example, the mdash character comes out as the code point \227 and I'd like to translate it as — instead. Example: the file myutf8.txt contains this s

Re: Snippets management

2008-11-05 Thread RP
I would be interested in something like that as well. Can you please post your links? I'm new to python. Well, I've been using it for a few months. GUI Application development would be a highly desire thing for some of my classes right now. I've done some PyGTK and wxPython tuts, but it's not sinki

Re: Snippets management

2008-11-05 Thread r
On Nov 5, 7:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin) wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been looking for a snippet manager and found PySnippet but it > requires PyGTK. Do you know any other option that doesn't need much? > > I'm sort of new to python and user interfaces seem a bit far for me > right now, that's w

Re: find an object ancestor

2008-11-05 Thread Michel Perez
Thanks it works OK On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:14 +1000, James Mills wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Michel Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > HI all: > > > > imagine something like this: > > > > class father: > >pass > > class son( father ): > >pass > > > > I need to know the so

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:21:38PM EST, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch > wrote: > > > Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until > > you really *need* the backed up data. ;-) > > That's why a backup system need

Re: find an object ancestor

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Rebert
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Michel Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI all: > > imagine something like this: > > class father: >pass > class son( father ): >pass > > I need to know the son ancestor class how can i know this. Help on built-in function issubclass in module __builtin__:

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Jones wrote: > I'm one of them that need to get their hands dirty a bith .. lack the > power of abstraction. Need to do some building before I can specify. Nothing wrong with rapid prototyping. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Regexp parser and generator

2008-11-05 Thread George Sakkis
On Nov 4, 3:30 pm, Peter Otten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George Sakkis wrote: > > Is there any package that parses regular expressions and returns an > > AST ? Something like: > > parse_rx(r'i (love|hate) h(is|er) (cat|dog)s?\s*!+') > > Regex('i ', Or('love', 'hate'), ' h', Or('is', 'er'),

Re: damn street venders

2008-11-05 Thread James Mills
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Benjamin Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm pretty sure all of the spam is automated, so your message won't get > through to anyone. It feels good to let our frustration out :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: find an object ancestor

2008-11-05 Thread James Mills
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Michel Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI all: > > imagine something like this: > > class father: >pass > class son( father ): >pass > > I need to know the son ancestor class how can i know this. >>> class Father(object): pass ... >>> class Son(Father): p

Re: damn street venders

2008-11-05 Thread James Mills
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Aspersieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 +1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:12:40PM EST, Tim Rowe wrote: > 2008/11/6 Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Begs the question .. how do I tell what is an object-oriented vs. a > > procedural problem? > > Practice, largely, so you're doing the right thing (provided you don't > trust your /real/ bac

Re: locating the chorus in a MIDI song?

2008-11-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2008/11/4 Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Without pretending to be an expert on the subject of music-theory or > audio-processing, my n00b'ish doubt is -- MIDI, unlike MP3 would be devoid > of voice... and in my overtly simplistic thinking -- presence / absence of > which (i.e. voice) could

Re: push-style templating - an xml-like way to process xhtml

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/3/2008 2:51 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of has: On 3 Nov 2008, at 18:18, Glenn Linderman wrote: On approximately 11/3/2008 12:20 AM, came the following characters from the keyboard of has: On 2 Nov, 14:06, Tino Wildenhain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: damn street venders

2008-11-05 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
I'm pretty sure all of the spam is automated, so your message won't get through to anyone. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:05 AM, r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, go sell your stupid watch somewhere else. > i am tired of the message boards clogged with these stupid ads. > Nobody here cares about your

find an object ancestor

2008-11-05 Thread Michel Perez
HI all: imagine something like this: class father: pass class son( father ): pass I need to know the son ancestor class how can i know this. Thanks --- Red Telematica de Salud - Cuba CNICM - Infomed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

Re: open a new terminal window from another terminal window in linux/unix system

2008-11-05 Thread David
gaurav kashyap wrote: > What i want to do is open another terminal window from already opened > terminal window. > Why? > Can this be achieved.If yes,please provide a tested solution > How about GNU Screen http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2008-09/msg01932.html --

Re: damn street venders

2008-11-05 Thread Aspersieman
+1 -- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:05:13 +0200, r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey, go sell your stupid watch somewhere else. i am tired of the message boards clogged with these stupid ads. Nobody here cares about your cheap rolex watches

Malaysia python programmers

2008-11-05 Thread Marcus.CM
Hi, I apologize if this is not the place to do this. A python user group for malaysia is currently being formed , so if you are in malaysia, feel free to join us at : www.python.my Marcus.CM. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Regexp parser and generator

2008-11-05 Thread George Sakkis
On Nov 4, 9:56 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 4, 1:34 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there any package that parses regular expressions and returns an > > AST ? Something like: > > > >>> parse_rx(r'i (love|hate) h(is|er) (cat|dog)s?\s*!+') > > > Regex

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Kurda Yon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the where can I find a simle tutorial about the work with the > "sqlite" from the Python? > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Once you get the connection, you can pretty much just do whatever if you

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Jones wrote: > But then I started thinking .. what if for instance I had to scale my > effort from my single system to a large "data center" with hundred of > hosts .. with different backup policies .. what if I had to take into > account time slots where th

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until > you really *need* the backed up data. ;-) That's why a backup system needs to be absolutely simple as possible. Avoid complicated formats, a straightforwa

Re: How to re-import a function from a module?

2008-11-05 Thread Ben Finney
Kurda Yon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to force Python to re-import the function, i.e. to > force it to use the new version of the function? A Python ‘import’ is conceptually two steps: execute the module, then bind the objects that were created to names in a namespace. The impor

Snippets management

2008-11-05 Thread Edwin
Hi there, I've been looking for a snippet manager and found PySnippet but it requires PyGTK. Do you know any other option that doesn't need much? I'm sort of new to python and user interfaces seem a bit far for me right now, that's why I thought having to install PyGTK was unnecessary. Would yo

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Kurda Yon
On Nov 5, 1:55 pm, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You (and Kurda) keep on talking the wrong stuff. First: you don't need > pysqlite2. SQLite support is included in the latest Python as module > sqlite3. > By the way, I think the above statement is very helpfull. I tried to install t

How to re-import a function from a module?

2008-11-05 Thread Kurda Yon
Hi, I have the following small problem. I run Python interactively. In the beginning of the run I import many functions from many modules. Than I execute some commands and notice that one of the imported functions contains a mistake. I open another terminal in which I open the file with the proble

Re: subprocess and PPID

2008-11-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michele Petrazzo wrote: > I have a code that execute into a "Popen" a command (ssh). I need that, > if the python process die, the parent pid (PPID) of the child don't > become 1 (like I can seen on /proc/$pid$/status ), but it has to die, > following it's parent >

Re: Using subprocess.Popen() in a Windows service

2008-11-05 Thread yomgui
hi, this is how i do it: from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call, check_call if sys.platform == 'win32': net.processWithoutGui = Popen( ['python', self.temporaryFilename,'-w'], shell=False, cwd=lNetworkDir)

Re: Extract frame from wmv

2008-11-05 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Golden wrote: > Alternatively, you might be able to commandline control > mencoder or ffmpeg itself to do this. Not sure, but there > must be *something* among those millions of command-line > options! FFmpeg--yes! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Tim Rowe
2008/11/6 Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Begs the question .. how do I tell what is an object-oriented vs. a > procedural problem? Practice, largely, so you're doing the right thing (provided you don't trust your /real/ backup data to a tutorial program). If you find that the program is at it

Re: Plz help..SocketServer UDP server losing lots of packets

2008-11-05 Thread James Mills
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 9:53 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > logFileName = 'log.txt' >logfile = open(logFileName, "a") >class MyUDPServer(SocketServer.UDPServer): >def server_bind(self): >self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, > socket.SO_

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:11:17PM EST, Ben Finney wrote: > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am thinking of rewriting it in python using OOP tactics/strategy. > > > > Please advise. > > I advise you not to have the object-oriented programming hammer as > your only tool, because it

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

2008-11-05 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm surprised that nobody yet has RTFM: > http://docs.python.org/reference/expressions.html > > generator_expression ::= "(" expression genexpr_for ")" > ... > The parentheses can be omitted on calls with only one argument. It's a fair cop. Thanks f

Plz help..SocketServer UDP server losing lots of packets

2008-11-05 Thread id . engg
logFileName = 'log.txt' logfile = open(logFileName, "a") class MyUDPServer(SocketServer.UDPServer): def server_bind(self): self.socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_RCVBUF, 8388608) self.socket.bind(self.serve

Query netgroup information through python

2008-11-05 Thread Joel Heenan
Python List, We have a setup where we have implemented NIS Netgroups through LDAP. I'm looking to query this information through python. We don't have a nis domain or nis server so I don't think the nis module is appropriate, what I think I'm looking for is python bindings for nss (name switching

Re: is this a good way to do imports ?

2008-11-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Stef Mientki wrote: hello, I can't find any good documentation or examples of packages, so I'm not sure if this is good / correct way, although it seems to work. root / dir1 / file1.py / general.py / dir2 / file2.py / general_root.py Now I want to be able to use functions of file

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

2008-11-05 Thread Miles
Ben Finney wrote: > Falcolas writes: > >> Using the surrounding parentheses creates a generator object > > No. Using the generator expression syntax creates a generator object. > > Parentheses are irrelevant to whether the expression is a generator > expression. The parentheses merely group the exp

Re: 2.6, 3.0, and truly independent intepreters

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Boddie
On 5 Nov, 20:44, "Andy O'Meara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 4, 10:59 am, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For Christ sake, researchers > > write global climate models using MPI. And you think a toy problem > > like 'real-time video processing' is a show stopper for using multip

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

2008-11-05 Thread Duncan Booth
Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What makes a generator expression is " for in >> ". >> >> Parenthesis is generally required because without it, it's almost >> impossible to differentiate it with the surrounding. But it is not >> part of the formally required syntax. >

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

2008-11-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:23:57 +, Arnaud Delobelle wrote: > Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What makes a generator expression is " for in >> ". >> >> Parenthesis is generally required because without it, it's almost >> impossible to differentiate it with the surrounding. But it is not part >

Re: Trying to set a date field in a access databse

2008-11-05 Thread Peter Otten
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I cannot get the following code to work > > import win32com.client > import time > > engine = win32com.client.Dispatch("DAO.DBEngine.36") > db=engine.OpenDatabase(r"testdate2.mdb") > access = db.OpenRecordset("select * from test") > > access.AddNew() > access.Fi

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

2008-11-05 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What makes a generator expression is " for in > ". > > Parenthesis is generally required because without it, it's almost > impossible to differentiate it with the surrounding. But it is not > part of the formally required syntax. ... But *every* generator express

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

2008-11-05 Thread Lie
On Nov 5, 4:56 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:39:36 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:18:27 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > >> > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Finding the instance reference of an object

2008-11-05 Thread Lie
On Nov 4, 9:33 am, Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 3, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > > > Maybe this is a surprise for you, because we haven't discussed this in > > much detail in this group lately, but it applies to Python which does > > call-by-object or call-by

Re: Ordering python sets

2008-11-05 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
Mr.SpOOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The discussion's gone a bit off topic so I don't know if it is a good > idea to continue here. I'll try. > > My first question was about a way to order a python set. Someone > suggested to try this module: > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/528878/ > > I

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

2008-11-05 Thread tmallen
Why do I feel like the coding style in Lutz' "Programming Python" is very far from idiomatic Python? The content feels dated, and I find that most answers that I get for Python questions use a different style from the sort of code I see in this book. Thomas On Nov 5, 7:15 am, Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL

Re: Error loading modules

2008-11-05 Thread John Machin
On Nov 6, 3:21 am, BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 4, 7:11 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 5, 9:18 am, BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am very new to python.  I am installing it as part of a bazzar > > > version control installation. > > > I have installed

Re: Dictionary membership check failure

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Holden
Zac Burns wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a dictionary that seems to be misbehaving on a membership > check. This test code: > > 1: import types > 2: assert myDict.__class__ is types.DictionaryType [...] For the record, it would be much simpler and more readable to say assert type(myDict) is

Re: socket.getaddrinfo: flags |= AI_ADDRCONFIG

2008-11-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 1) mimic glibc default behavior, i.e. if flags is unspecified or >None, treat it as the default value of AI_V4MAPPED | >AI_ADDRCONFIG). Unfortunately, that contradicts with RFC 3493, which says # If hints is a null pointer, the behavior # shall be as if it referred to a structure co

Trying to set a date field in a access databse

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I cannot get the following code to work import win32com.client import time engine = win32com.client.Dispatch("DAO.DBEngine.36") db=engine.OpenDatabase(r"testdate2.mdb") access = db.OpenRecordset("select * from test") access.AddNew() access.Fields("test").value=time.strptime('10:00AM', '%I:%M

Re: Extract frame from wmv

2008-11-05 Thread Martin
Tim Golden wrote: Martin wrote: I've looked at Pymedia but I have to admit I couldn't work it out. Commandline might be good, but I'm really hoping someone can point me in the right direction, as this is not my area of expertise. Nor mine :) Just so people can help you out, can you be more

Re: push-style templating - an xml-like way to process xhtml

2008-11-05 Thread Terrence Brannon
On Nov 5, 6:03 am, lkcl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * pyjamas (http://pyjs.org) - this is treating the web page and the wow. I had never heard of it, but it is _damned_ impressive. THANK YOU. I'm joining the club for my next webdev project! rock on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Using subprocess.Popen() in a Windows service

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Shewfelt
Hello, I am attempting to use Popen() in a Windows service. I have a small Win32 .exe that I normally run through the os.popen2() function. I've written a class to work with the input and output parameters that are passed and captured from this exe. When I use the class outside of a service using

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Shawn Milochik (Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:28:46 -0500) >> >> Thanks, but either I'm missing something or you're missing >> >> something. I can't do any of what you describe on the machine I >> >> want to use sqlite on. >> >> >>

Re: Dictionary membership check failure

2008-11-05 Thread Zac Burns
Sorry everyone, I found the bug in my code shortly after posting here. For the curious: I was using a QString (pyqt) inadvertently in the lookup. I guess the behavior then would be would be that QStrings hash differently than strings which accounts for the membership check failure, but lists do a

Re: is this a good way to do imports ?

2008-11-05 Thread Terrence Brannon
On Nov 5, 2:14 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I want to be able to use functions of file2 in file1, > and vice-versa. It sounds like __all__ in __init__.py would work: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/tut/node8.html#SECTION00840 If not, then pkgutil might of use

Re: 2.6, 3.0, and truly independent intepreters

2008-11-05 Thread Andy O'Meara
On Nov 4, 10:59 am, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 4, 4:27 pm, "Andy O'Meara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People > > in the scientific and academic communities have to understand that the > > dynamics in commercial software are can be *very* different needs and > > have to sh

Dictionary membership check failure

2008-11-05 Thread Zac Burns
Greetings, I have a dictionary that seems to be misbehaving on a membership check. This test code: 1: import types 2: assert myDict.__class__ is types.DictionaryType 3: assert (key in myDict.keys()) == (key in myDict) raises AssertionError on line three. The dictionary items are all of type (str

Re: Ordering python sets

2008-11-05 Thread Mr . SpOOn
The discussion's gone a bit off topic so I don't know if it is a good idea to continue here. I'll try. My first question was about a way to order a python set. Someone suggested to try this module: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/528878/ It seemed pretty good, but I've tried it just today an

is this a good way to do imports ?

2008-11-05 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, I can't find any good documentation or examples of packages, so I'm not sure if this is good / correct way, although it seems to work. root / dir1 / file1.py / general.py / dir2 / file2.py / general_root.py Now I want to be able to use functions of file2 in file1, and vice-

Re: [Python-Dev] Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats?

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Holden
Matthieu Brucher wrote: > 2008/11/5 L V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats? >> Is there any good reason range and xrange don't threat floats as floats but >> as integers? >> When I enter float arguments in a range, the floats are treated as integers. >> (+ so

Re: Reading, editing and saving a txt file

2008-11-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Artur Sousa wrote: Hi everyone. What I'm trying to do is a Python script that reads a txt file with the following structure: ... I've already started some programming, but I'm stuck. You started from the bottom up. Now also try from the top down. What should be the main structure of your

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Shawn Milochik (Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:28:46 -0500) > >> Thanks, but either I'm missing something or you're missing > >> something. I can't do any of what you describe on the machine I > >> want to use sqlite on. > >> > >> I have downloaded the binary sqlite3 file from sqlite's Web site, > >> and > >

Re: Inheritance problem

2008-11-05 Thread Mr . SpOOn
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to call the __init__ of NoteSet inside Scale, as otherwise the > instance isn't properly initialized. Thanks, solved. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Getting function and args from generator objects

2008-11-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Rui Jorge Rei wrote: I have been searching for a way to fetch the originating function object from a generator. Futile, I believe. I would also like to get all the arguments and keyword arguments that were used when calling the function that created the generator. The arguments to a genera

Re: [Python-Dev] Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats?

2008-11-05 Thread L V
python 2.5 Since it was an indirect suggestion, I thought it belonged here. What should python-list and python-dev both be used for? I know there is an alternative, but why not make it easier? From: Matthieu Brucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: L V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Python-Dev] Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats?

2008-11-05 Thread Matthieu Brucher
2008/11/5 L V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why don't range and xrange threat floats as floats? > Is there any good reason range and xrange don't threat floats as floats but > as integers? > When I enter float arguments in a range, the floats are treated as integers. > (+ some warning) > > This is how I t

Re: Finding the instance reference of an object

2008-11-05 Thread Terry Reedy
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: I'm sure all the programmers using FORTRAN for the last 50 years will be very surprised to hear that it uses call-by-value! That should be 'last 31 years'. Fortran IV *was* call-by-value, as least for scalars. I remember spending a couple of hours tracking d

Asynchat and error handling

2008-11-05 Thread Orestis Markou
Hello, I'm trying to add some better error handling to an async_chat client. What I want is to retry or terminate gracefully if the connection to the server doesn't succeed. Here's what I have: import asyncore, asynchat, socket class http_client(asynchat.async_chat): def __init__(self, host

Re: Inheritance problem

2008-11-05 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Mr.SpOOn wrote: > Hi, > I have a problem with this piece of code: > > > class NoteSet(OrderedSet): > def has_pitch(self): > pass > def has_note(self): > pass > > class Scale(NoteSet): > def __init__(self, root, type): > self.append(root) > self.type =

Reading, editing and saving a txt file

2008-11-05 Thread Artur Sousa
Hi everyone. What I'm trying to do is a Python script that reads a txt file with the following structure: > AI_Tactic.dat > NO_AI > 1 > > Animation.dat > Intro > 2 > > Areas.dat > Start > 8 Then asks for a user input on what line containing one of those filenames the script should read, sh

Inheritance problem

2008-11-05 Thread Mr . SpOOn
Hi, I have a problem with this piece of code: class NoteSet(OrderedSet): def has_pitch(self): pass def has_note(self): pass class Scale(NoteSet): def __init__(self, root, type): self.append(root) self.type = type ScaleType(scale=self) OrderedS

Re: What's your choice when handle complicated C structures.

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Kern
一首诗 wrote: Hi all, Recently I am writing a small network application with python. The protocol is binary based and defined in c header files. Now I'm using the upack function of 'struct' module, but it's really annoying to write fmt strings for complicated structures. What will be your choice

Getting function and args from generator objects

2008-11-05 Thread Rui Jorge Rei
Hi, I have been searching for a way to fetch the originating function object from a generator. I would also like to get all the arguments and keyword arguments that were used when calling the function that created the generator. I checked the inspect module, but it doesn't seem to provide that dat

Re: What's your choice when handle complicated C structures.

2008-11-05 Thread Glenn Linderman
On approximately 11/4/2008 5:31 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch: On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:52:17 -0800, 一首诗 wrote: Now I'm using the upack function of 'struct' module, but it's really annoying to write fmt strings for complicated structures. What

Python 2.3.7 Does not compile on Ubuntu 8.10 i386

2008-11-05 Thread tilley . rb
Hi guys, Testing some older versions of Python. 2.2.3 compiled and runs just fine on same machine. I get this error during 2.3.7 make: case $MAKEFLAGS in \ *-s*) CC='gcc -pthread' LDSHARED='gcc -pthread -shared' OPT='- DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes' ./python -E ./setup.py -q b

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:12:08 +, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:42:43 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro > >> Engineering rule #1: if it works, don't fix it. > > Especially if it handles your backups ;-) Well, if it handles your backups it doesn't work. It just pretends until you real

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
>> Thanks, but either I'm missing something or you're missing something. >> I can't do any of what you describe on the machine I want to use >> sqlite on. >> >> I have downloaded the binary sqlite3 file from sqlite's Web site, and > > The linux binary will not work. You need the headers and the > l

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:11:37 -0500, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote a trivial backup script that does the following: > > If tonight is the first day of the month: > > save last month's archive > do a full backup of the system > > else: > > save last night's differential

Re: Red Hat 32 bit RPM for python 2.4+

2008-11-05 Thread Michael Torrie
James Prav wrote: > Hi , > > Could anybody please point to any available Red Hat 32 bit RPM for python > 2.4 or greater version on Net. I searched a lot but could find for other > flavour and not Red hat. RPMS are distro-specific. What distribution are you looking for? Since python is an integr

Re: Rewriting a bash script in python

2008-11-05 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:42:43 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris > Jones wrote: > >> I wrote this in bash and although it's worked w/o a glitch for the last >> couple of months .. I'm not comfortable with .. "the look & feel of it". > > Eng

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 5, 10:07 pm, "Shawn Milochik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 5, 9:22 pm, "Shawn Milochik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is all useful and interesting stuff, but I don't think any of it > >>

Re: subprocess and PPID

2008-11-05 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:19:34 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 5:12 pm, Michele Petrazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> I believe that this is a *nix question, but since I'm developing in >> python, I'm here. >> >> I have a code that execute into a "P

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 9:22 pm, "Shawn Milochik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is all useful and interesting stuff, but I don't think any of it >> addresses the original poster's problem, which is that he has no root >> access

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 5, 9:22 pm, "Shawn Milochik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is all useful and interesting stuff, but I don't think any of it > addresses the original poster's problem, which is that he has no root > access to a Linux or Unix box, and wants to get pysqlite2 working in > his home directory.

Re: Parse each line by character location

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
I work with tab-delimited files for a living. Because of the same need you have, I created a Python script to do this. It has usage information that is easy to follow (just run it without any arguments). I hope someone else finds this useful. I have, and use it every month. It can be easily modifi

Re: Error loading modules

2008-11-05 Thread BL
On Nov 4, 7:11 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 9:18 am, BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am very new to python.  I am installing it as part of a bazzar > > version control installation. > > I have installed the Crypto, paramiko and cElementTree modules.  I am > > running

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread Shawn Milochik
This is all useful and interesting stuff, but I don't think any of it addresses the original poster's problem, which is that he has no root access to a Linux or Unix box, and wants to get pysqlite2 working in his home directory. I have exactly the same problem. I have tried the "python setup.py ins

Re: subprocess and PPID

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 5, 5:12 pm, Michele Petrazzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I believe that this is a *nix question, but since I'm developing in > python, I'm here. > > I have a code that execute into a "Popen" a command (ssh). I need that, > if the python process die, the parent pid (PPID) of the ch

Re: Raw socket when interface down.

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 5, 8:37 pm, Mat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use raw sockets in python for a dhcp client. I write this code : > > soc = socket.socket(socket.PF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW) > soc.bind(("eth0",0x0800)) > data = soc.recv(1024) > print len(data) > > It seems to work correctly

Re: Can I build Python with lthread instead of pthread?

2008-11-05 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Akira Kitada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm running Python 2.5 on FreeBSD 4. >pthread on FreeBSD 4 has some problems so I would like to build >python with lthread (linuxthreads) instead of BSD's pthread. >So I looked at configure options but couldn't find any opti

Re: How to build the pysqlite? Where to find the "sqlite3.h"?

2008-11-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Nov 5, 12:29 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:58:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed > the following in comp.lang.python: > > > Python depends upon Sqlite... which is weird... but it is what I > > discovered... > >         Not really (weird). Python,

Raw socket when interface down.

2008-11-05 Thread Mat
Hi, I'm trying to use raw sockets in python for a dhcp client. I write this code : soc = socket.socket(socket.PF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW) soc.bind(("eth0",0x0800)) data = soc.recv(1024) print len(data) It seems to work correctly when interface is up, but when network interface is down I get this

Re: Parse each line by character location

2008-11-05 Thread Lie
On Nov 5, 2:29 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >         So you have a classic (especially for COBOL and older FORTRAN) fixed > field record layout, no? > >         I presume the entire file is of a single layout? That would mean > only one splitting format is needed... > [s

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