Auto Install Linux Rpm's

2005-11-16 Thread Sells, Fred
goodies that would help. tia Fred --- The information contained in this message may be privileged and / or confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby

RE: Is Python worth it??

2005-11-15 Thread Sells, Fred
I second what others have said about the tutorials. I have not read how to think like a ... but from other posting here I have reservations about it as a starting point. -Original Message- From: Simon Brunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:42 AM To: john

Re: Job Offer in Paris, France : RD Engineer (Plone)

2005-09-08 Thread Fred Pacquier
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : I can't let that pass. :-) I believe it was well established in posts a few years ago that while the programming-language equivalent of Esperanto is clearly Python, Volapuke was most definitely reincarnated as *Perl*. Sorry -- I've been reading c.l.py

Re: Job Offer in Paris, France : RD Engineer (Plone)

2005-09-07 Thread Fred Pacquier
Adriaan Renting [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : And about the French language: Try to find some french radio broadcast on the internet or something like that, and see if you can understand it. I find reading/writing/speaking French is o.k., but understanding native speakers can be very hard. I have

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Fred L. Drake, Jr.
be really nice. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. docs at python.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Coin-operated kiosk written in python -- need some help...

2005-08-18 Thread Sells, Fred
I've done a similar app, but it keeps a gui up awaiting a timeclock punch. You need to tackle this in phases: 1. what os and get the gui to start at bootup. 2. start a separate thread that reads/blocks on the coin. you need more specific questions to get better help -Original Message-

FW: python oldie, SWIG newbie needs help

2005-08-16 Thread Sells, Fred
-Original Message- From: Sells, Fred Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:09 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: python oldie, SWIG newbie needs help I've been trying all day to get a simple SWIG generated interface to a simple (but ugly) piece of c++ code provided to us by the gov't

2.3 or 2.4 on linux

2005-08-04 Thread Sells, Fred
We are in the process of standardizing ~10 Linux servers on Lineox 4.x, which is a variant of RedHat Enterprise server I'm told. Part of that process is to standardize python. The baseline install includes python 2.3 which is adequate, but I would like to standardize on 2.4.1, because it is the

RE: Yet Another Python Web Programming Question

2005-07-12 Thread Sells, Fred
FWIW there's dos2unix program that fixes this on most systems. -Original Message- From: Bill Mill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:55 AM To: Daniel Bickett Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Yet Another Python Web Programming Question Python using CGI, for

RE: I am a Java Programmer

2005-07-06 Thread Sells, Fred
It takes great courage to turn from the dark side; let the pforce be with you. Also, go to Borders, get the python books and a Latte and figure out if one of the many books is written in a style that you like. -Original Message- From: bruno modulix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: How do you program in Python?

2005-07-06 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm old school and have been very happy with emacs (on windows) and the python extensions. I just edit my file and hit control-C twice and it runs. I'm also using eclipse with PyDev and it's ok, but sluggish. -Original Message- From: anthonyberet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: What are the other options against Zope?

2005-07-03 Thread Some Fred
Zope also supports scripts in Perl. If you like, you can also write scripts à la PHP, ie. include code in HTML pages, using two templating languages: DTML is the older one, and ZPT is the more recent one. HTH Fred. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Running Python interpreter in Emacs

2005-06-27 Thread Sells, Fred
-domain sunrise.com) (setq gnus-your-organization Sunrise Software International) (setq display-time-day-and-date t) (setq display-time-no-load t) (setq display-newmail-beep t) (display-time) ;;(setq-default tab-width 4 )fred (put 'narrow-to-region 'disabled nil) (put 'narrow-to-page

RE: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 7)

2005-06-08 Thread Fred Pacquier
Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Just wanted to say thank you to Simon and all the other people who have edited the Python-URL! weekly digest over the years. Despite my being a pretty much constant reader of c.l.py and various blogs and other on-line sources, I still look forward to to

RE: Generating RTF with Python

2005-04-14 Thread Sells, Fred
Apache fop does a good job of combining xslt+xml to generate pdf; the spec says it does RTF, but I have not tried it. Although fop is java, you can run it as a (java) executable, so you could run it as a command from python. It is almost as good as reportlab's stuff. -Original Message-

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-14 Thread Fred Pacquier
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Well, I take advantage of this folding idea for years now. Do you remember DoubleSpace? I was getting to the limits [1] of my 100 MiB hard disk, so I was considering upgrading my hardware. A female friend of mine, knowing a little but not

Re: database in python ?

2005-04-11 Thread Fred Pacquier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Hello I need to build table which need searching data which needs more power then dictionary or list in python, can anyone help me what kind of database suitable for python light and easy to learn. Is mySQL a nice start with python ? There are a

RE: Equivalent string.find method for a list of strings

2005-04-09 Thread Sells, Fred
linenums = [i for i in range(len(lines)) if lines[i].find(searchstring) =0] -Original Message- From: Joshua Ginsberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Equivalent string.find method for a list of strings try: filter(lambda

RE: PPC OSX vs. x86 Linux

2005-04-09 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm no expert on internals, but I seem to recall that in the past, the string module could be implemented in either C or Python and I think there is a strop module that is related to all this. Could it be that on the Mac, your string processing is using interpreted Python byte code while linux

RE: Need Help: Server to pass py objects-THANKS

2005-03-30 Thread Sells, Fred
Thanks to all who responded. Although overwhelmed by the hits from a Google search initially, it looks like pyro is a good choice for my needs. -Original Message- From: Ken Godee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 3:45 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Need

Need Help: Server to pass py objects

2005-03-29 Thread Sells, Fred
I have a legacy system with data stored in binary files on a remote server. I need to access and modify the content of those files from a webserver running on a different host. (All Linux) I would like to install a server on the legacy host that would use my python code to translate between the

Re: Problem in designing a global directory in python

2005-03-29 Thread '@'.join([..join(['fred', 'dixon']), ..join(['gmail', 'com'])])
noob warning: what is so wonderful about the NEW class over the old ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-28 Thread Fred Pacquier
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : OT/trivia : if it was between mid-eighties and early nineties, the company could be Goupil (ancien french for Fox). Exactly! That was it... it was October or November 1981, though (early eighties). Oh... probably a G2 model then, with a

help with getting selection from wxChoice with out after it has changed

2005-03-27 Thread '@'.join([..join(['fred', 'dixon']), ..join(['gmail', 'com'])])
I want to get the selection of several wxChoice boxes. But i do not want to have to catch the events for all the boxes I should be able to access the current selection outside of an event,but i am not seeing how to do this. This is a hack of the wxpython choice demo to demonstrate my question

Re: Cross platform distribution of standalone executable

2005-03-27 Thread '@'.join([..join(['fred', 'dixon']), ..join(['gmail', 'com'])])
don't count out py2exe, especially if your using pywin32's -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for a 10-14 years old?

2005-03-24 Thread Fred Pacquier
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : At the age of nine at school, two guys from a French computer-making company named as Loup (in french) or Lupo (in Italian), can't remember which --if either is correct--, came and gave us a demo of one of their models. OT/trivia : if it

Re: Lisp-likeness

2005-03-15 Thread Fred Gilham
))) Then there's the defun macro . . . . :-) -- Fred Gilham[EMAIL PROTECTED] A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth

try / except not worknig correctly

2005-03-12 Thread '@'.join([..join(['fred', 'dixon']), ..join(['gmail', 'com'])])
indents. fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: try / except not worknig correctly

2005-03-12 Thread '@'.join([..join(['fred', 'dixon']), ..join(['gmail', 'com'])])
1) the tutor list is really slow. but thanks. 2) Thanks Brain, i was missing the string bit. the code i posted (opps) was not exactly where i was having problems, it just looked like it. also thanks for the 'in' test, that will come in handy. i am using chain because i need to do something

Re: 'Browse' button for *.txt file?

2005-03-11 Thread Fred
Sweet.Thanks for the URLs!! And for all the other help and good guessing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

'Browse' button for *.txt file?

2005-03-10 Thread Fred
Hi I am searching for a module, that would allow me to call files by using a 'browse' button. Is there any uniform module for browsing files, or is there a special module for *.txt files? Thanks Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: 'Browse' button for *.txt file?

2005-03-10 Thread Fred
Sorry if my choice of words is not very clear to you, but as english is not my first language, I put it this way because of a lack of better words. I will try it differently: What I meant is that I am searching for a module, that would allow me to select a file by not using a typed path, but by

Re: Web framework

2005-03-09 Thread Fred Pacquier
Gianluca Sartori [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Hi guys, What web framework do you suggest to develop with? I had a look both at Nevow and Quixote. These seemes to be the most appreciated by the community. Anyway, I had no luck looking for a complete and coherent documentation. Snakelets is nice,

File call error message (double backslash)

2005-03-08 Thread Fred
Hi I am writing on an application, that is supposed to read a file into a single string: My program though, when I run it, gives me an error, that the called file is non existent 'C:\ \Documents and Settings\ \Fred\ \My Documents\ \School\ \Bio' Is it normal that python adds the space and extra

Indexing strings

2005-03-04 Thread Fred
the index of the space??? Thanks for any help! Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indexing strings

2005-03-04 Thread Fred
Use the index method, e.g.: text.index(' '). What exactly do you want to do? That was exactely what I was searching for. I needed a program, that chopped up a string into its words and then saves them into a list. I think I got this done... Thanks for the help --

Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-08 Thread Fred Pacquier
Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : that's Hanlon, not Heinlein. to be on the safe side, I won't attempt to attribute your mistake to anything. Fair enough. The only time I've seen it in dead-tree print was in Heinlein's _Time Enough For Love_, unattributed to anyone else. Googlespace

Re: advice needed for simple python web app

2005-02-04 Thread Fred Pacquier
Dan Perl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : This is exactly the kind of summary that I think should be in a WebProgrammingShootOut (see another one of my postings in this thread) but I failed to find such a summary. Thanks, Brian! Anyone can add to the list? I myself am also into (very) simple web

RE: Developing Commercial Applications in Python

2005-01-03 Thread Sells, Fred
At Sunrise Software International, we build commercial applications for Cabletron and the Florida DMV. This was ~10 years ago; so no useful docs available, but we had no problems with license. -Original Message- From: Richards Noah (IFR LIT MET) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

RE: gridbaglayout

2004-12-24 Thread Sells, Fred
gridbag is a pain. google for tablelayout which is easier (to me) -Original Message- From: Diez B. Roggisch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:17 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: gridbaglayout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends - I have tried to do

Re: datetime

2004-12-16 Thread Fred Pacquier
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said : Okay, I searched www.python.org for a date handler and found datetime. http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-datetime.html However, whenever I try to import datetime, I get a No module named datetime error. What am I missing? The module

Re: I need to create the table and I want to edit its content from www level.

2004-12-06 Thread Fred Pacquier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rootshell) said : I need to create the table and I want to edit its content from www level. Here is some example: http://www.rootshell.be/~flash44 There is a table. Is there possibilty to edit the content using input command? Could you show me the way how to do

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