Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-10-08 11:44:18 +0100: That's because assignment isn't an operator - that's why (for example) print x = 33 would be a syntax error. This is a deliberate design decision about which, history shows, there is little use complaining. Just to clarify: not

Re: question about deleting records from mysql

2005-07-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-07-27 05:12:46 -0700: ok. did this cursor.execute(DELETE FROM table WHERE autoinc 1000) 245L cursor.commit() i got an AttributeError 'Cursor' object has no attribute 'commit' hmm. what should i do now? RTFM, e. g. here:

Re: Killing process

2005-05-18 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-05-01 05:07:27 -0700: I actually tried mapping the PID to an integer value and it still didn't work. At any rate, I found another way to do it. Thanks anyways. What the kind people have been trying to get through is that the win32api.TerminateProcess() does

Re: Python or PHP?

2005-04-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-23 15:53:17 +0200: Lad wrote: Is anyone capable of providing Python advantages over PHP if there are any? I am also new to python but I use php for 4 years. I can tell: - python is more *pythonic* than php - python has its own perfume

Re: Noobie Question: Using strings and paths in mkdir (os.mkdir(/test/a))

2005-04-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-22 00:13:05 -0700: Hello! I can't seem to get paths and variables working together: import os a = 'books' os.chdir( '/test') os.mkdir(/test/a) the last line does not seem to work. os.mkdir(a) makes the directory books, but i want this directory as a

Re: regarding system function

2005-04-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-22 08:35:33 +0100: --- Robert Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: praba kar wrote: In Php If I send a command to system function then It will return 1 on success and 0 on failure. So based upon that value I can to further work. But In Python

Re: To decode the Subject =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... in email in python

2005-04-20 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-20 00:30:35 -0700: When parsing messages using python's libraries email and mailbox, the subject is often encoded using some kind of = notation. Apparently, the encoding used in this notation is specified like =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... or =?iso-8859-2?B?=. That's

Re: [perl-python] Python documentation moronicities (continued)

2005-04-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-13 08:07:06 +1000: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:06:36 +0200, Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, the python community seems to bathe in the misorganized half-documentation, see e. g. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=python-listm

Re: [perl-python] Python documentation moronicities (continued)

2005-04-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-17 14:59:50 +0200: Roman Neuhauser wrote: Here's a puzzle for you: Where does this list appear? What's missing? ..., Mullender, Nagata, Ng, Oner, Oppelstrup, ... Sorry, I don't have time for puzzles. nor for contributing, it seems. otherwise, your

Re: A little request about spam

2005-04-14 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 09:06:08 -0600: Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 08:22:48 -0600: The listowner could turn on the [PYTHON] headers. I hope they don't. What's your reasoning? It's 9 characters ([PYTHON] ) of screen real estate

Re: Compute pi to base 12 using Python?

2005-04-13 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-13 03:27:06 -0700: Bengt Richter wrote at 03:19 4/13/2005: This is not homework, nor am I a student, though I am trying to learn Python. I'm just trying to help an artist acquaintance who needs (I just learned) the first 3003 digits of pi to the base 12.

Re: [perl-python] Python documentation moronicities (continued)

2005-04-12 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-12 03:25:33 -0700: QUOTE compile( pattern[, flags]) Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object, which can be used for matching using its match() and search() methods, described below. The expression's behaviour can be modified

Re: semicolons

2005-04-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-12 00:14:03 +0200: Hello, I amafraid of I will stop using semicolons in other languages after one or two months of python. Writing in multiple programming languages is just like writing or speaking in multiple human languages: you just need to

Re: email and smtplib modules

2005-04-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-09 16:42:04 -0500: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm writing a small script that generates email and I've noticed that: 1) one should add the 'To' and 'CC' headers to the email message 2) one needs to specify the recipients in the

Re: Signals and system

2005-04-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-10 20:55:05 +1000: Hi folks, My python program needs to download a number of files. Each file comes as a list of mirrors of that file. Currently, I am using system (os.system) to run wget. The mechanism is in a loop, so that it will try all the mirrors

sys.stdout / sys.stderr, subprocess, redirection

2005-04-04 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hello, I have a piece of code that gets run in a script that has its stdout closed: import sys sys.stdout = sys.stderr c = subprocess.Popen (..., stdin = subprocess.PIPE, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr

Re: Super Newbie Question

2005-04-04 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-04 16:39:27 -0700: In short, how might I go about deleting just the contents of a file? I tried several methods with my limited knowledge but had no luck. fd = open(your-file) fd.truncate() fd.close() or open(your-file, w).close() -- How many