Re: Dowloading package dependencies from locked down machine

2020-07-27 Thread Igor Korot
Hi, On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 6:46 PM Andrew McLean wrote: > > On 26/07/2020 14:07, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > I think your best bet is to make a formal business case to your IT > > people and explain what's in it for them. If they hold all the cards > > you defeat them at your peril. > > The issue i

Re: Dowloading package dependencies from locked down machine

2020-07-27 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 28/07/2020 9:43 am, Andrew McLean wrote: > On 26/07/2020 14:07, Mike Dewhirst wrote: >> I think your best bet is to make a formal business case to your IT >> people and explain what's in it for them. If they hold all the cards >> you defeat them at your peril. > > The issue is that the IT depart

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-07-27, Termoregolato wrote: > Il 26/07/20 22:47, dn ha scritto: > >> Thus, compare the results of the two calls to detect a difference. > > I will try also another way, If I don't err symlinks and original > directory have the same inode number (I talk about Linux, where I'm > using the

Re: Dowloading package dependencies from locked down machine

2020-07-27 Thread Andrew McLean
On 26/07/2020 14:07, Mike Dewhirst wrote: I think your best bet is to make a formal business case to your IT people and explain what's in it for them. If they hold all the cards you defeat them at your peril. The issue is that the IT department thinks that installing the full power of Python

Very Simple (Rather Dumb) Question

2020-07-27 Thread Romulus Schilling via Python-list
Hello, I have a quick, and most likely rather dumb begginer question on Python. It may be simple, but I'm completely new to Python, and to programming in general, so I'll go right to the point. My question is: I just downloaded the latest version of python, and started following a tutorial I found

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread Termoregolato
Il 26/07/20 22:47, dn ha scritto: Thus, compare the results of the two calls to detect a difference. I will try also another way, If I don't err symlinks and original directory have the same inode number (I talk about Linux, where I'm using the application). I've a lot of directories like t

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
On 2020-07-27 at 20:20:08 +0200, Termoregolato wrote: > Il 26/07/20 20:39, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: > > > Since symbolic links are essentially just short files containing the > > path to the eventual target file/directory, with an OS flag that the file > > is a link > > Yes, I use them mas

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:26 AM Termoregolato wrote: > > Il 26/07/20 20:39, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: > > > Since symbolic links are essentially just short files containing the > > path to the eventual target file/directory, with an OS flag that the file > > is a link > > Yes, I use them massi

Re: Symlinks already present

2020-07-27 Thread Termoregolato
Il 26/07/20 20:39, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto: Since symbolic links are essentially just short files containing the path to the eventual target file/directory, with an OS flag that the file is a link Yes, I use them massively to give to a lot of directories a kind of order, depending on the

Re: Need to 'import gtk' on Ubuntu 20.04, what do I need?

2020-07-27 Thread Chris Green
Liste guru wrote: > Il 24/07/2020 10:31, Chris Green ha scritto: > > >    ... > > > I'm a *fairly* competant Python programmer so, if I have to, I > > willconsider converting from using the gtk module to using the gi > > module,are there any good tutorials which might help me down this road?