unicode-to-ascii: replace with space, not ?

2009-10-14 Thread Allen Fowler
Hello, I've been using data.encode('ascii','replace') to force an ASCII string out of Unicode data, with ? in the place of non-ASCII letters. However, now I want to use a blank space (or maybe a dash) instead of a question mark. How do I do this? Thank you, :) --

multiproccess: What is the Dameon flag?

2009-09-15 Thread Allen Fowler
Hello, What is the Daemon flag and when/why would I want to use it? Thank you, AF -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: multiproccess: What is the Dameon flag?

2009-09-15 Thread Allen Fowler
What is the Daemon flag and when/why would I want to use it? From the documentation: When a process exits, it attempts to terminate all of its daemonic child processes.. Sometimes you want the main process to wait for its worker processes to terminate before terminating itself so

Scheduling algorithm: Suggestions?

2009-09-07 Thread Allen Fowler
Hello, I have a batch of rpc style calls that I must make to an external server via HTTP in a multi threaded fashion. (Return vales must be saved.) Problem is, I need to throttle the rate at which I do this. Each HTTP call takes between 0.2 and several seconds to complete. I need to

XML(JSON?)-over-HTTP: How to define API?

2009-07-02 Thread Allen Fowler
I have an (in-development) python system that needs to shuttle events / requests around over the network to other parts of itself. It will also need to cooperate with a .net application running on yet a different machine. So, naturally I figured some sort of HTTP event / RPC type of would be

Re: XML(JSON?)-over-HTTP: How to define API?

2009-07-02 Thread Allen Fowler
I have an (in-development) python system that needs to shuttle events / requests around over the network to other parts of itself. It will also need to cooperate with a .net application running on yet a different machine. So, naturally I figured some sort of HTTP event / RPC type

Re: Project source code layout?

2009-06-04 Thread Allen Fowler
I was hoping to keep the dev layout as close to deployment possible. Completely different purposes. For example, the actual production database and config files form no part of your development project, do they? And conversely, utility scripts that might be used, for example, to set

Project source code layout?

2009-06-03 Thread Allen Fowler
Hello, I'm new to Python, and am looking for some suggestions as to the source code layout for a new project. The project will be a tg/pylons daemon, a static website, and a collection of other scripts that will interact with the app and DB. Here is what I am thinking so far: root_folder/ -

Re: Project source code layout?

2009-06-03 Thread Allen Fowler
I'm new to Python, and am looking for some suggestions as to the source code layout for a new project. Is this the development layout or the deployment layout? The two need not bear any resemblance. Looking for suggestions on both. I was hoping to keep the dev layout as close to