Some help in refining this regex for CSV files

2012-12-05 Thread Oltmans
Hi guys, I've to deal with CSVs that look like following CSV (with one header and 3 legit rows where each legit row has 3 columns) Some info Date: 12/6/2012 Author: Some guy Total records: 100 header1, header2, header3 one, two, three one, "Python is great, so are other languages, isn't ?",

Re: Cannot get past this string related issue

2011-04-26 Thread Oltmans
On Apr 26, 7:39 pm, Thomas Rachel wrote: > Am 26.04.2011 15:48, schrieb Oltmans: > > > > > > > > > > > Following doesn't work > > > config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() > > config.read('configs.txt') > > server_info

Cannot get past this string related issue

2011-04-26 Thread Oltmans
Greetings, I hope you're doing well. I'm stuck in a strange issue, most likely due to my own ignorance. I'm reading a config file using ConfigParser module and passing database related info to _mssql. Following doesn't work config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser() config.read('configs.txt') server_in

Line breaks in list causing a small formatting problem while joining the list

2011-01-21 Thread Oltmans
Hi Python gurus, hope you're doing well. I've a small problem. When I run the following code ___ >>> names = ['oltmans','abramhovic','\n','sal','lee'] >

Hosting a Python based TCP server

2010-12-23 Thread Oltmans
Hi all, I'm writing a very small TCP server(written in Python) and now I want to host it on some ISP so that it can be accessed anywhere from the Internet. I've never done that before so I thought I should ask for some advice. Do you guys know any good ISP that can let me do that? Most importantl

Does pickled objects work fine between different OS?

2010-05-26 Thread Oltmans
If I dump a Python dictionary into a file named "data.pkl" using Pickle module on a Linux operating system, will the data contained in "data.pkl" load fine in a Windows OS? I mean will I be able to load the dictionary data contained in "data.pkl" just fine on Windows XP? I could have tested it but

Some help needed with small multi-threaded program!

2010-05-17 Thread Oltmans
I've a small multi-threaded program that is written by keeping Producer-Consumer pattern in mind. In the Producer part of the program we create new users by doing a POST to a certain web URL whereas in the Consumer part of the program we try to login newly created users. Problem is that program sor

Re: Kindly show me a better way to do it

2010-05-08 Thread Oltmans
On May 9, 1:53 am, superpollo wrote: > add = lambda a,b: a+b > for i in reduce(add,a): >      print i This is very neat. Thank you. Sounds like magic to me. Can you please explain how does that work? Many thanks again. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Kindly show me a better way to do it

2010-05-08 Thread Oltmans
Hi, I've a list that looks like following a = [ [1,2,3,4], [5,6,7,8] ] Currently, I'm iterating through it like for i in [k for k in a]: for a in i: print a but I was wondering if there is a shorter, more elegant way to do it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/

Can someone please make it more pythonic or better?

2010-04-17 Thread Oltmans
int me to a more Pythonic, more readable and possible more short way to acheive this? I will really appreciate any help. Many thanks in advance. Best regards, Oltmans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting HTML to PDF using Python?

2010-03-08 Thread Oltmans
so I will really appreciate all the help. Thanks in advance and kindly pardon my ignorance. Thanks, Oltmans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Adding methods from one class to another, dynamically

2010-02-01 Thread Oltmans
On Feb 2, 2:14 am, Steve Holden wrote: > > Should not tee be subclassing test, not unittest.TestCase? > Thank you, Steve. This worked, but I've not clue why? Can you please enlighten me why sub-classing 'test' made it happen? Please. Thanks again. > regards >  Steve > -- > Steve Holden          

Re: Adding methods from one class to another, dynamically

2010-02-01 Thread Oltmans
thod): if name.find('test_')!= -1: setattr(tee, name, new.instancemethod(func,None,tee)) suite = unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromName('check.tee') suite.run(r) --- Then line suite.run(r) should have run the methods that we just attached, but it's not. I

Adding methods from one class to another, dynamically

2010-02-01 Thread Oltmans
Hello Python gurus, I'm quite new when it comes to Python so I will appreciate any help. Here is what I'm trying to do. I've two classes like below import new import unittest class test(unittest.TestCase): def test_first(self): print 'first test' def test_second(self): pr

Re: unittest help needed!

2010-01-14 Thread Oltmans
On Jan 14, 11:46 pm, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: > When you run test.py, it gets to the loadTestsFromName line.  There, it > imports the module named "test" in order to load tests from it.  To > import > that module, it runs test.py again.  By the time it finishes running the > contents of t

unittest help needed!

2010-01-14 Thread Oltmans
Hi Python gurus, I'm quite new to Python and have a problem. Following code resides in a file named test.py --- import unittest class result(unittest.TestResult): pass class tee(unittest.TestCase): def test_first(self): print 'first test' print '-' def

Re: Regex help needed!

2009-12-21 Thread Oltmans
lksjdfls kdjff lsdfs sdjfls sdfsdwelcome hello, my age is 86 years old and I was born in 1945. Do you know that PI is roughly 3.1443534534534534534 > ~uk > > On Dec 21, 4:38 pm, Oltmans wrote: > > > Hello,. everyone. > > > I've a string that looks som

Regex help needed!

2009-12-21 Thread Oltmans
Hello,. everyone. I've a string that looks something like lksjdfls kdjff lsdfs sdjfls sdfsdwelcome >From above string I need the digits within the ID attribute. For example, required output from above string is - 35343433 - 345343 - 8898 I've written this regex that's kind of working

Help resolve a syntax error on 'as' keyword (python 2.5)

2009-11-03 Thread Oltmans
Hi, all. All I'm trying to do is to print the error message using the following code (copying/pasting from IDLE). def div(a,b): print a/b try: div(5,0) except Exception as msg: print msg but IDLE says (while highlighting the 'as' keyword) except Exception as msg: SyntaxError: i

Want to call a method only once for unittest.TestCase--but not sure how?

2009-09-28 Thread Oltmans
Hello fellow python hackers, I'm not an expert when it comes to Python and I'm totally stuck in a situation. All of our unit tests are written using built-in 'unittest' module. We've a requirement where we want to run a method only once for our unit tests. Some background: all of our tests are sub

Re: How to improve this code?

2009-09-15 Thread Oltmans
call like are_elements_present([div1,div2,div10,inp1]) it should return False. So I hope I've explained myself. Now all I'm looking for is to write are_elements_presents() in a more Pythonic way. So please let me know if I can write are_elements_present() in more smart/shorter way. Than

How to improve this code?

2009-09-14 Thread Oltmans
ea of using a variable named 'result' inside elementsPresent() doesn't sound very good. Any ideas will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Oltmans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

An error in threading.py?

2009-03-11 Thread Oltmans
Hi, all. I'm trying to use Mechanize in a multithreaded program-- purpose of which is to fill out a form on a website using concurrent threads. Guys, trust me I've spent a lot of time to figure out the problem but I'm completed puzzled. Firstly, I've listed the errors and then the program listing (

Re: calling class methods from class methods, help?

2009-03-11 Thread Oltmans
On Mar 11, 11:00 pm, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >                     self.html=self.SendRequest() > -- Thank you, everyone, for the help. Appreciate that. > Piet van Oostrum > URL:http://pietvanoostrum.com[PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] > Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org- Hide quoted text - > > - Show q

Re: calling class methods from class methods, help?

2009-03-11 Thread Oltmans
On Mar 11, 10:08 pm, Oltmans wrote: >                 self.html=SendRequest() # This line throws an error and error says NameError: global name '_Requests_SendRequest' is not defined. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

calling class methods from class methods, help?

2009-03-11 Thread Oltmans
I've a multithreaded program in which I've to call class methods from class methods. Here is how my code look like (excluding imports),. Any help is highly appreciated. #!/usr/bin/env python class Requests(Thread): def __init__(self, times): Thread.__init__(self) self.times=ti

Re: How to extract some text?

2009-03-08 Thread Oltmans
On Mar 9, 3:37 am, Chris Rebert wrote: > Learn about the methods of the string class > (str):http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#id4 > > You'll probably be most interested in .split() OK, thanks I got it. I was trying to use Regex but .split() just worked like a charm. Thank you ;) > >

How to extract some text?

2009-03-08 Thread Oltmans
rom the above string. Any ideas/ help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Oltmans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Indentifying types?

2009-03-03 Thread Oltmans
Python? I want to check following types 1- integers 2- strings 3- testing types of a particular class 4- decimal/floats Please excuse my ignorance & enlighten me. I will really appreciate any help. Thanks, Oltmans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Searching Google?

2009-02-17 Thread Oltmans
ghten me. Thanks, Oltmans -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help needed to retrieve text from a text-file using RegEx

2009-02-09 Thread Oltmans
Here is the scenario: It's a command line program. I ask user for a input string. Based on that input string I retrieve text from a text file. My text file looks like following Text-file: - AbcManager=C:\source\code\Modules\Code-AbcManager\ AbcTest=C:\source\code\Modules\Code-AbcTest\

A SSH error during put operation

2009-01-20 Thread Oltmans
Hey all, I've been using Paramiko for sometime now and I never had any problems. I've already submitted this question to Paramiko mailling list but I thought I should post it in CLP as someone might have used it in past. I'm using Paramiko for SSH. Are there any other good SSH libraries that you'v

Re: How to store passwords?

2009-01-07 Thread Oltmans
On Jan 8, 1:55 am, "Sebastian Bassi" wrote: > In general you don't store the password, but a "hash" of it. Then when > the user logs-in, you hash it and compare the result with the stored > hash. > About hash, use sha, look > here:http://docs.python.org/library/hashlib.html#module-hashlib But t

How to store passwords?

2009-01-07 Thread Oltmans
I'm writing a program in which I will ask users to enter user name and password once only. It's a console based program that will run on Windows XP. Actually, I'm trying to provide the similar functionality as "Remember me" thing in browsers. For that, I will need to store user name and passwords o

Printing digits in one place

2008-11-24 Thread Oltmans
I'm writing a file-transfer program and I'm receiving bytes transferred in a function. Now I would like to print bytes transfered in one place e.g. Bytes Transfered so far X and X will increase and cursor should stay at this position. I don't want to use any 3rd party module for this. Can I someh

Searching and replacing text ?

2008-05-02 Thread Oltmans
Hi, I'm new to Python (and admittedly not a very good programmer) and I've come across a scenario where I've to search and replace text in a file. For the sake of an example, I'm searching for every occurence of the text [[http://www.hotmail.com -> Hotmail]] I've to replace it with [http://www.h

Unable to handle File Open dialog (using Pamie)

2008-03-12 Thread Oltmans
Hi all, I'm new to Python and am automating few tasks using Pamie. Everything worked well until I had to handle the File Open Dialog. I mean I'm trying to automate the file upload process using Pamie. Basically I just want to automate the process of file upload. I want to automatically hit the Br