Re: Queue cleanup

2010-08-11 Thread EW
On Aug 11, 2:52 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > EW writes: > > Well I cared because I thought garbage collection would only happen > > when the script ended - the entire script.  Since I plan on running > > this as a service it'll run for months at a time without ending.  So I

Re: Queue cleanup

2010-08-11 Thread EW
On Aug 11, 2:16 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > EW writes: > > I thought about doing it that way and I could do it that way but it > > still seems like there should be a way to clean up Queues on my own. > > If I did it this way then I guess I'd be relying on garbage collection

Re: Queue cleanup

2010-08-11 Thread EW
On Aug 11, 1:55 pm, MRAB wrote: > EW wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > So here the P2 thread has ended and gone away but I still have his > > Queue lingering. > > > So on a thread I can use is_alive() to check status and use join() to > > clean up but I don

Re: Queue cleanup

2010-08-11 Thread EW
On Aug 11, 1:18 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > EW writes: > > I also might have different consumer threads do > > different tasks (for example one might write to a log and one might > > write to SQL) so that again means I can't plan for a set ratio of > > consumers t

Re: Queue cleanup

2010-08-11 Thread EW
On Aug 11, 12:55 pm, EW wrote: > Hi > > I'm writing a multithreaded app that relies on Queues to move data > between the threads.  I'm trying to write my objects in a general way > so that I can reuse them in the future so I need to write them in such > a way that I

Re: Confused: Newbie Function Calls

2010-08-11 Thread EW
On Aug 11, 12:39 pm, fuglyducky wrote: > On Aug 11, 9:31 am, Pinku Surana wrote: > > > > > > > On Aug 11, 12:07 pm, fuglyducky wrote: > > > > I am a complete newbie to Python (and programming in general) and I > > > have no idea what I'm missing. Below is a script that I am trying to > > > work

Queue cleanup

2010-08-11 Thread EW
Hi I'm writing a multithreaded app that relies on Queues to move data between the threads. I'm trying to write my objects in a general way so that I can reuse them in the future so I need to write them in such a way that I don't know how many producer and how many consumer threads I might need.

Re: Confused: Newbie Function Calls

2010-08-11 Thread EW
This will work: sample_string="" def gen_header(sample_string=""): HEADER = """ mymultilinestringhere """ sample_string+= HEADER return sample_string def gen_nia(sample_string=""): NIA = """ ano

reading windows event logs

2009-11-25 Thread EW
Hi All, I'm looking for some guidance on a better way to read eventlogs from windows servers. I've written a handy little app that relies on WMI to pull the logs an in all my testing it worked great. When I deployed it, however, WMI choked on servers with a lot of logs. I've tried pulling t

Re: Problem remotely shutting down a windows computer with python

2005-01-06 Thread EW
This does exactly what I needed! Thanks! Not sure what Windows Management Instrumentation is, but I'll look into it now. Eric -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Problem remotely shutting down a windows computer with python

2005-01-02 Thread EW
I believe that would shutdown the computer you were physically at, but it wouldn't shutdown the computer down the hall over the LAN like this script was meant to do. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Problem remotely shutting down a windows computer with python

2005-01-02 Thread EW
I have a problem when using the python script found here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/360649 It is a script to remotely shutdown a windows computer. When I use it, the computer shuts down, but doesn't power off like with a regular shutdown. It stays on the "Safe to po