meta language to define forms

2014-03-27 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm trying to use python classes and members to define complex data entry forms as a meta language The idea is to use a nice clean syntax like Python to define form content, then render it as HTML but only as a review tool for users, The actual rendering would go into a database to let a

RE: noobie needs help with ctypes

2013-12-10 Thread Sells, Fred
Mucho apologies for rich text, I think I picked that up when replying to a post without properly checking. Thanks for heads up. Fred. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

noobie needs help with ctypes

2013-12-09 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using python 2.6 on Linux/CentOs 6.x I'm getting ctypes to work, but getting stuck on the use of .argtypes. Can someone point out what I'm doing. This is my first use of ctypes and it looks like I'm getting different definitions in stackoverflow that may correspond to different version

RE: noobie needs help with ctypes

2013-12-09 Thread Sells, Fred
] On Behalf Of Joel Goldstick Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 3:22 PM To: Terry Reedy Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: noobie needs help with ctypes On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edumailto:tjre...@udel.edu wrote: On 12/9/2013 2:24 PM, Sells, Fred wrote: I'm using

RE: Shebang line on Windows?

2013-02-25 Thread Sells, Fred
When moving from windows to unix you need to run dos2unix on any programs that use shebang (at least with python 2.6) that is installed on some platforms but must be installed on others like CentOs but it is in their repository. -Original Message- From: Python-list

derived class name in python 2.6/2.7

2013-01-30 Thread Sells, Fred
This is simple, but I just cannot find it after quite a bit of searching I have this basic design class A: def __init__(self): print 'I am an instance of ', self.__class__.name class B(A): pass X = B I would like this to print I am an instance of B but I keep

RE: New in Python , Need a Mentor

2013-01-02 Thread Sells, Fred
The need for a python-aware editor is the commonly held opinion, although the debate about which editor is endless. I use Eclipse + PyDev only because I found it first and like it. The only suggestion I would offer is to separate the business logic completely from the HTML request/response

RE: Object Models - decoupling data access - good examples ?

2012-08-07 Thread Sells, Fred
Given that the customer is always right: In the past I've dealt with this situation by creating one or more query classes and one or more edit classes. I found it easier to separate these. I would then create basic methods like EditStaff.add_empooyee(**kwargs) inside of which I would drop

RE: Diagramming code

2012-07-16 Thread Sells, Fred
You leave many relevant questions unanswered. 1. Is the original developer/team available or have you been left with the code and little or no doc's? 2. How big is big in terms of the number of files/modules in the project? 3. Is there a reasonable structure to the project in terms of

RE: Overlayong PDF Files

2012-05-02 Thread Sells, Fred
Assuming your form has actual PDF data entry fields. I export the form to a .fdf file, run a little script to replace fieldnames with %(fieldname)s and save this as a staic template. At run time I'll merge the template with a python dictionary using the % operator and shell down to pdftk to

RE: Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

2011-12-02 Thread Sells, Fred
Steven, that's probably the most elegant explanation of the pythonic way I've ever seen. I'm saving it for the next time upper management want to use Java again. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org

RE: Py and SQL

2011-12-01 Thread Sells, Fred
I find it easier to code like this Sql = ‘’’select yadda, yadda, yadda FROM a,b,c Where this=that ORDER BY deudderting’’’ With the appropriate %s(varname) and % against a dictionary rather than positional args, but that’s just me. From:

RE: Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

2011-11-25 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm looking at a variation on this theme. I currently use Flex/ActionScript for client side work, but there is pressure to move toward HTML5+Javascript and or iOS. Since I'm an old hand at Python, I was wondering if there is a way to use it to model client side logic, then generate the

RE: webapp development in pure python

2011-10-25 Thread Sells, Fred
Quixote may be what you want, but it's been years since I've used it and I don't know if it is still alive and kicking. It was from MEMS if I remember correctly. Using django and Flex is one way to avoid html and javascript and it works great for datagrids. Fred. --

RE: Community Involvement

2011-08-05 Thread Sells, Fred
After the completion of most training courses, the students are not yet ready to make a meaningful contribution to the community. Yet your goal of getting them involved in the community is worthwhile. I would think learning to use the community as a resource to solve a problem that is not

reading zipfile; problem using raw buffer

2011-07-26 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm tring to unzip a buffer that is uploaded to django/python. I can unzip the file in batch mode just fine, but when I get the buffer I get a BadZipfile exception. I wrote this snippet to try to isolate the issue but I don't understand what's going on. I'm guessing that I'm losing some

RE: reading zipfile; problem using raw buffer

2011-07-26 Thread Sells, Fred
Thanks all, adding the 'rb' and 'wb' solved that test case. The reason I read the file the hard way is that I'm testing why I cannot unzip a buffer passed in a file upload using django. While not actually using a file, pointing out the need for the binary option gave me the clue I needed to

RE: Selecting unique values

2011-07-26 Thread Sells, Fred
The set module or function (depends on which python version) will do this if you make each record a tuple. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org] On Behalf Of Peter Otten Sent:

RE: Refactor/Rewrite Perl code in Python

2011-07-25 Thread Sells, Fred
Sometimes it's worth asking Why? I assume there would be no need to rewrite if the existing code did most of what was needed. It may be easier to ask the customer what he really wants rather than to re-engineer a crappy solution to an obsolete problem. --

newbie needs help with cookielib

2011-05-04 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using Python 2.4 and 2.7 for different apps. I'm happy with a solution for either one. I've got to talk to a url that uses a session cookie. I only need to set this when I'm developing/debugging so I don't need a robust production solution and I'm somewhat confused by the docs on cookielib.

RE: What was your strategy?

2010-11-16 Thread Sells, Fred
It helps to try to solve a real (to you) problem, that way you discover what you don't know. If your code ends up nested 3 levels or your methods are more than 10 lines, ask for help. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org

RE: { '0':'c-c-a' ,'1':'a-b-a' .........}

2010-11-09 Thread Sells, Fred
Since your keys are not unique, I would think that you would want a list of values for the object corresponding to each key. Something like Mydict = {} Mydict.setdefault(mykey, []).append(avalue) -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org

RE: Generating PDF file in Python

2010-10-27 Thread Sells, Fred
I just shell down and use pdftk to merge fdf and pdf -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org] On Behalf Of Steve Piercy - Web Site Builder Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:24 AM

RE: Processing XML File

2010-01-29 Thread Sells, Fred
Google is your friend. Elementtree is one of the better documented IMHO, but there are many modules to do this. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org] On Behalf Of Stefan

RE: How to run python script in emacs

2009-10-13 Thread Sells, Fred
Here is the .emacs file I place at c:\ on xp. I don't understand it and cannot explain it. It was developed by a few guys I worked with 20 years ago and still does the job. Probably quite obsolete by now, but if it ain't broke... In response to your what do you mean With the cursor in a python

RE: How to run python script in emacs

2009-10-07 Thread Sells, Fred
Hitting ctrl-c, twice quickly works for me. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org] On Behalf Of OdarR Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 12:02 PM To: python-list@python.org

RE: Introducing Python to others

2009-04-02 Thread Sells, Fred
When doing the same thing, I like Using a dictionary to return a function or a class definition based on a msg id and let that returned value handle the message that contained the id. Something like Class XYZ: ... MyHandlers = {42:XYZ, ... Message = read_from_somewhere_else()

RE: Python Apache Handler

2009-01-09 Thread Sells, Fred
Mod_python works, but if you are doing anything significant look into one of the many frameworks like turbogears or django. More structure to learn but less code when all is said and done. -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org

RE: Python advocacy . HELP!

2008-12-24 Thread Sells, Fred
Prof. Kanabar (kanabar.bu.edu) is planning to offer a python course there soon. Perhaps he could help. Tell him you got his name from me (Fred Sells). -Original Message- From: python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org

RE: Django or TurboGears or Pylons? for python web framework.

2008-11-07 Thread Sells, Fred
I use Flex (from adobe) for the client side and turbogears for the server side and pass xml or json in between. It gives you a Flash client which is very Sexy and browser independent and very simple turbogears code in Python. Flex is essentially open source, but the IDE is about $295, although

RE: swig or ctypes , under the gun and need help

2008-08-25 Thread Sells, Fred
Diez wrote... I don't know swig, but if all you have is a real C-API, try use ctypes. It's much easier to create bindings for, keeps you fully in the warm and cozy womb of python programming and doesn't need no compilation to create the actual binding. You're right the ctypes does

swig double[], under the gun and need help

2008-08-24 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using python 2.4 under linux (centos 5.1). I need to pass an array of doubles to a c function but am getting an error, shown near the bottom of this post. my swig interface file looks like this * File: rug520.i */ %module rug520 %include

need ldap windows binary and/or installation help

2008-07-15 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm running python 2.5 (or 2.4) in an XP environment. I downloaded and installed the .dll's from OpenLDAP-2.4.8+OpenSSL-0.9.8g-Win32.zip and copied the .dll's in c:/windows/system32 as instructed now I get this error. Is there anyway to avoid building the python_ldap binaries? Apart from

RE: need ldap windows binary and/or installation help

2008-07-15 Thread Sells, Fred
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Ströder Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:46 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: need ldap windows binary and/or installation help Tim Golden wrote: Sells, Fred wrote: I'm running python 2.5 (or 2.4) in an XP environment. I downloaded and installed

imaplib -- can't read body

2008-07-11 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm trying to read mail using the imaplib module. I can get the subject and date, but not the body, have not found any example on how to do that and I don't know much about imap. Here's what I have, working as noted... If anyone can show me what I'm missing in order to get the body of a mail

RE: PyDev multiple source files?

2008-05-30 Thread Sells, Fred
the short answer is a file is a module; therefore to 'include' access to 'myclass' in file xyz.py from another file called 'abc.py' you would put this in abc.py import xyz #note no '.py' x = xyz.myclass() or from xyz import myclass #if you're lazy use ... import * x = myclass() see the

adobe flex; return xml via turbogears/django

2008-05-29 Thread Sells, Fred
please excuse slightly off-topic; cannot access turbogears mailing list at the moment. There was an excellent video by James Ward that showed using turbogears to return json data to adoble's flex UI. It simply used @expose(JSON) def (): ... return dict(x=1, ...) Is there

RE: adobe flex; return xml via turbogears/django

2008-05-29 Thread Sells, Fred
Diez wrote: Why don't you create KID-template like this: div py:strip=True${root}/div and in the controller say @expose(thexmltemplate) def ... return dict(root=myElementTreeRoot) sounds good. Does that py:strip remove the div and anything outside it. I'll be doing a flex

RE: Newbie In Python

2008-05-20 Thread Sells, Fred
get a python-aware editor. I vary between emacs and Eclipse, depending on my mood and the size of the project. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruno Desthuilliers Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:25 AM To: python-list@python.org

RE: do you fail at FizzBuzz? simple prog test

2008-05-20 Thread Sells, Fred
or for i in range(1,100): print ('fizz','','')[i%3] + ('buzz','','','','')[i%5] or i Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print Fizz instead of the number and for the multiples of five print Buzz. For numbers which are multiples of both

RE: Newbie to python --- why should i learn !

2008-05-09 Thread Sells, Fred
write working programs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:25 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Newbie to python --- why should i learn ! Hi, i was reading/learning some hello

Need Python alternative to Request-Tracker help desk software

2008-04-29 Thread Sells, Fred
I've been tasked with either implementing Request-Tracker to upgrade our help desk issue tracking system or finding a Python equivalent (both in terms of functionality and wide spread use). Request-Tracker uses Apache and MySQL, which would also be appropriate to Python. I would prefer to go

need help to upload file to webserver

2008-04-08 Thread Sells, Fred
I am automating the client side of a simple web interface. I need to upload a file to a webserver that requires authentication. I've got the authentication working with urllib2 (see below), but the only examples I've found to upload files use httplib without authentication. I'm competent

RE: Can I run a python program from within emacs?

2008-03-25 Thread Sells, Fred
I use a .emacs file (attached) that some associates gave me nearly 20 years ago. Some of it is OBE now, but it still works for me on both windows and Linux. With this file I can cntrl-c cntrl-c (i.e. ^c twice to run the current buffer). Don't ask me to explain it, it just works.

RE: Looking for very light weight template library (not framework)

2008-03-11 Thread Sells, Fred
As I recall Quixote allowed you to embed html in python. was actually pretty cool. Havenot tried it in a long time. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malcolm Greene Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:56 PM To: python-list@python.org

RE: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Sells, Fred
-snip-- Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the same information that Django is best among the frameworks so I downloaded it and I found it very difficult to configure. I referred the

RE: Python web frameworks + adobe flex

2007-11-21 Thread Sells, Fred
slight shift of topic here. I'm a newbie at standard web stuff. Mostly java webstart and a little mod_python. I experimented with Adobe Flex and really loved it for doing the front end. The backend needs to provide xml, json or AMF (an adobe proprietary binary format). For prototyping, I

RE: Anyone knows how to use xemacs with ipython or python on WinXP? [phishing][html-removed]

2007-11-19 Thread Sells, Fred
you did remember to byte-compile the python-mode.el file? I am struggling to make the ipython or python works in xemacs. I have been seraching on the internet for a solution for one day. I have put python-mode.el and ipython.el in the load-path and in the xemacs I type: M-x load library

RE: newbie Q: sequence membership

2007-11-19 Thread Sells, Fred
a, b = [], [] a.append(b) b.append(a) did you perhaps mean a.append('b'); b.append('a'); otherwise this seems pretty advanced for a newbie b in a True a in a Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in module RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

RE: Using Python To Change The World :)

2007-11-14 Thread Sells, Fred
It sounds as if this project is a major task based on your current level of experience. That being said, all we pythonistas encourage and support anyone who is trying to learn/apply python. Break the problem into 2 parts: --simulation math of what you're trying to do --cool visual display (2D

RE: RMI with Pyro et al

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
Diez B. Roggisch wrote . Why do you want that (hot deploy) anyway? Does startuptime of a script really bother you? shouldn't take more than a few seconds. My primary need is development/debug. I'm a Pyro newbie and I add a feature and then test. The only way I've found to kill the Pyro

RE: Problem with MySQL cursor

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
I don't think you can substitute the table name and column names in the execute, just values ( I could be wrong) try building it like this: sql = INSERT INTO %s %s VALUES % (taablename, columnstuple, '(%s)') cursor.execute(sql, values) Hello, I have a function that executes a SQL statement

RE: RMI with Pyro et al -- thanks for help

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
thanks, that should do it Diez wrote: Go install cygwin (but not it's included python-interpreter, or at least make sure you have your python path properly under control) and then simply start the script from the command-line. And hit C-c if you need it to stop, and restart it. Only

Pyro: ActiveState (wind32) to Unix

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using ActiveState python on a windows box to talk to ACtive Directory. I'm running a Pyro Server on the same box. The client is Linux running std Python 2.4. It works just fine until the server codes calls some win32com.client api; then I get Traceback (most recent call last): File

RMI with Pyro et al

2007-10-10 Thread Sells, Fred
I need a simple client/server architecture with clients on linux and servers on windows. There is no UI in this part, just business rules and access control. Pyro seems pretty cool for this due to it's simplicity. I'm just starting with it and have not been able to get the server side to see

Mysqldb printing sql and params no matter what I do

2007-10-02 Thread Sells, Fred
I had some code originally that printed the sql and params when I called the .execute method. I removed it but it still prints. I rebooted and renamed files and still it prints. I am totally stumped; I tried google but perhaps didn't use the right search; got a lot of hits but no clues. I'm

RE: Mysqldb printing sql and params ... NEVER MIND

2007-10-02 Thread Sells, Fred
el stupido here accidently put a couple of print statements into a mysqldb module when eclipse opened it from the link in the stacktrace; -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: How to Start

2007-09-14 Thread Sells, Fred
I like eclipse+pydev; although I did pay my dues learning the basics of eclipse. F9 saves file and runs it. If you're an emacs dude, emacs + python mode is pretty good. ctrl-c ctrl-c runs the active buffer. Of course if you don't already know emacs, avoid it like the plague. -Original

RE: Filemaker interactions

2007-08-28 Thread Sells, Fred
filemaker 8.0 (Pro I think) has a web page generator. That's all I know, since I didn't really need it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M.-A. Lemburg Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 4:36 PM To: Ian Witham Cc: python-list@python.org

best SOAP module

2007-07-18 Thread Sells, Fred
I need to talk to a vendor side via SOAP, Googling is overwhelming and many hits seem to point to older attempts. Can someone tell me which SOAP module is recommended. I'm using Python 2.4. --- The information contained in

RE: MySQL --Python--XML for JSviz

2007-07-03 Thread Sells, Fred
Sometimes sneaky is better than elegant. You could shell down to a command line invocation of mysql and specify -xml as the output format. I'm not sure how close that format is to what you need or how much you could leverage views (if using mysql 5.0). You could also use a command line xslt

python app to emulate terminal to dialup bulletin board

2007-07-03 Thread Sells, Fred
We need to automate the download of data that is now done manually via a terminal session to a dialup bulletin board. The user uses this to upload and download files. Hard to believe in this day and age, but true. I've tried google, but the terms are just too common; all I get is clutter. So I

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

2007-06-28 Thread Sells, Fred
concur 100%. You can breeze through the fist half of the online tutorial in a about 2 cups of coffee but you don't know what you don't know until you try to do something real. Even with 20 years of working with Python, I find goodies in the cookbook for each new project. Get a python aware

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

2007-06-28 Thread Sells, Fred
Wow Fred! You're awesome! How did you get 20 years in of Python when it was created in 1991? You're right, programming skills exceed basic math. I think I started around 1990 with version 0.92 beta. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

2007-06-28 Thread Sells, Fred
this one is fun: http://www.vpython.org/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of swordofrue Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:50 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Evolution of a pythonistas! Thanks everyone for your responses. I am

RE: Help With Better Design

2007-06-25 Thread Sells, Fred
IMHO ... untested class LightBulb: def __init__(self, on=False): self.IsOn = on def turnOn(self): self.switchIt(True) def turnOff(self):self.switchIt(False) def switchIt(self, turnon): if self.isOn==turnon: print The Switch is Already %s % ([ON,

RE: pydev help

2007-06-20 Thread Sells, Fred
uncheck mylar and it should work. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher L Judd Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:00 AM To: Danyelle Gragsone Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: pydev help [html-removed] Its called mylyn

RE: Beginning Python

2007-06-06 Thread Sells, Fred
I find 3 elements contribute significantly to becoming competent in python 1. a decent IDE so you can see the big picture (multiple files and directories). I use Eclipse + PyDev because Eclipse supports other goodies like CVS. I'm sure other IDE's are as good if not better, but who has time to

RE: Graph plotting module

2007-06-05 Thread Sells, Fred
www.vpython.org might be overkill, but it was easy to do simple 2d charts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Grant Edwards Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:23 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Graph plotting module On

MySQLdb insert fails on one table

2007-06-01 Thread Sells, Fred
I have this table mysql describe valid_individuals; +---+--+--+-+-+---+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +---+--+--+-+-+---+ | fname | varchar(30) | YES | | NULL| | | lname | varchar(30)

RE: MySQLdb insert fails on one table

2007-06-01 Thread Sells, Fred
thank you! that was it. I created the table using a create table (select from which must have defaulted to InnoDb, now I just create it in a script. -Original Message- From: Carsten Haese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:56 AM To: Sells, Fred Cc: python

RE: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solidhigh-tr affic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Sells, Fred
I just started using flex (flex.org) from Adobe for the front end and am quite amazed at what it can do. Good docs. Clean client/server api if you like xml. It's relatively new so you still have to turn over some rocks and kiss some frogs to figure out how to get exactly the behavior you want

RE: Fortran vs Python - Newbie Question

2007-03-26 Thread Sells, Fred
1. Python is fun! 2. Python is cool! 3. Most of the time you can google a solution, i.e. somebody has already done nearly everything you can think of. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:21 AM To:

RE: Choosing Python

2007-03-19 Thread Sells, Fred
glad to hear it. Those of us who would like to introduce it in reluctant schools elsewhere could benefit from a post-semester evaluation, including student comments and some sample, running projects. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL

RE: Need help with apack compression code

2007-03-16 Thread Sells, Fred
try google: python apack found several in general, always google first; python has so many devotees that someone has generally solved most problems already. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of priya kale Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:33 PM

RE: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

2007-03-14 Thread Sells, Fred
I currently use Java to generate a 150 page PDF from about 50 .odt files, including replacing occurrances of about 10 place-holder phrases from data in our system. I do not use the OOo database/mailmerge features, just UNO. This process takes about 20 seconds on my 2 year old XP laptop and about

RE: i can`t get python working on the command line (linux)

2007-03-13 Thread Sells, Fred
looks like it is expecting command line agrs that are not there. put this at the top of your code to see what's going on import sys print sys.argv remembering that the first element printed is sys.argv[0] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: Eric on XP for Newbie

2007-02-28 Thread Sells, Fred
I've been using Eclipse with the PyDev extension. it's not bad, although you need a reasonably powerful computer to handle the bloat of Eclipse. For short programs, I still like emacs, but I'm old school. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of SPE

RE: Testers please

2007-02-13 Thread Sells, Fred
cool product, I'll test depending on schedule at the time. one (more) suggestion (from those of us who arn't doing the work ;) is to put this in eclipse, rather than apache, since many developers work with it. Please no IDE wars, I like emacs too, but when I'm trying to teach to newbies I use

RE: How can I access data from MS Access?

2007-02-05 Thread Sells, Fred
Peter, I sadly admit that I was wrong. Doesn't seem to work is effectivly even more useless than doesn't work. I give up. Years ago we used to get our FORTRAN card decks back from the DP center with a piece of scrap paper saysing She No Work. top that. --

RE: Python tools to manipulate JARs ?

2007-01-31 Thread Sells, Fred
I have not tried this, but... Assuming jython is out of the question You might want to try a simple java command line program you could run from popen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Dingley Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:11 AM

OpenOffice 2.0 UNO update Links; need help

2007-01-21 Thread Sells, Fred
I've got a ~100 page document I assemble from ~30 OOo .odt files with some search and replace functions. I then produce a PDF. So far so good. Now I need to get a barcode from our internal website and insert that. The barcode will vary based on some parameters. Our internal site provides a

RE: Async callback in python

2006-12-06 Thread Sells, Fred
the standard print gets delayed somewhere inside python, however if you use print sys.stderr, whatever, 3, 4 5 that prints immediately, or so it seems to me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Linan Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:18 PM To:

RE: python vs java eclipse

2006-12-02 Thread Sells, Fred
If you're in the PyDev perspective, F9 runs the current script while ctrl-F11 reruns the last script run. I have found that certain types of operations just plain don't work this way and must be run from a conventional shell window. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Python work in UK

2006-11-29 Thread Sells, Fred
The technical director of Cabletron used to write applications in Python, then give the working product/code to the development group to convert. Perhaps you could build stuff in Python and outsource the conversion to India? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: CGI Tutorial

2006-10-06 Thread Sells, Fred
content is great, my comments are editorial. I prefer PDF with bookmarks rather than HTML. 1. easy to print the whole thing and read offline. 2. easy to find a secion from bookmarks, rather that chasing links 3. easy to save on my local doc folder so I can be sure It will always be there. (i.e.

RE: Where is Python in the scheme of things?

2006-10-05 Thread Sells, Fred
Every C++ and Java programmer that I know, who have done a moderate sized project in Python (thus requiring learning it's strengths) states that they hope to never go back to C++ or Java. I cannot comment on VB programmers, since I don't speak to them ;) --

RE: CGI - mod_python

2006-10-03 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm confused. is WSGI only a specification, or are there implementations, and if so which ones -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: ideas for programs?

2006-05-31 Thread Sells, Fred
to regurgitate what others have said. trying to solve a real-world problem is significantly more educational that writing toy programs and class assignments. Solving a real-world problem will generate more interest in your potential ability that knowing any language. Pick a problem that you and

pyuno and oootools with OpenOffice 2.0

2006-05-04 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using windows xp and OpenOffice 2.0 and doing my first project with pyuno. I've got the basics to work,. An example I googled at http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/aggregators/openoffice_org/blogaggregator_vi ew?b_start:int=0 imported an ootools module. When I try to import it, it does not

pyuno and PDF output

2006-05-04 Thread Sells, Fred
I can use java to output a PDF file using uno, but when I try to do it in python, I get an IO Exception with no added information. The relevant code snippet follows: from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue PDF= PropertyValue( FilterName , 0 , writer_pdf_Export, 0 )

OpenOffice UNO export PDF help needed

2006-04-29 Thread Sells, Fred
I've geen googling for 3 days now, and cannot find out how to do this. I'm trying to use OpenOffice 2.0 and UNO to generate PDF documents. I'm using windows, but will have to make it work under Linux for production. I've been able to set the parameters and call the exportToPdf method, but the

need SOAPpy help

2006-03-22 Thread Sells, Fred
I've just been asked to do a soap client for some vendor software. I'm able to load the WSDL and discover the methods, but when I go to call a method it doesn't see it. I should be passing in a string that is named testValue I've been working from the soap demoes with soappy 0.12.0. I've found

ldap passwd need help

2006-01-18 Thread Sells, Fred
I've got the python-ldap version 2.0.11 with python 2.4 under Linux I've got the ldap stuff working for groups, but now I'm trying to use it to change a user password. I get a return of 2 and no error messages but it does not change ldap. I've tried it with uid = 'joeblow' and with

ldap .passwd method, need help

2006-01-13 Thread Sells, Fred
I've got the python-ldap version 2.0.11 with python 2.4 under Linux I've got the ldap stuff working for groups, but now I'm trying to use it to change a user password. I get a return of 2 and no error messages but it does not change ldap. I've tried it with uid = 'joeblow' and with

RE: UDP socket, the solution

2006-01-04 Thread Sells, Fred
import socket, threading, time, binascii, struct from Configure import Debug thanks to all, here's my final code that works, if it helps anyone import socket, threading, time, binascii, struct from Configure import Debug ZERO = chr(0) class Udp: def __init__(self, my_address,

UDP socket, need help setting sending port

2005-12-19 Thread Sells, Fred
appreciated. Fred Sells fred at adventistcare dott org --- 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

RE: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-16 Thread Sells, Fred
If this is your first try, use cgi, cgitb and html % dictionary as suggested in this thread. If your db is mysql, you can actually use os.popen() (or equivalent) to run a 'mysql -html -e select * from yaddayadda to return html. you can make that look prettier with css. here's a quick and dirty

Auto Install Linux Rpm's

2005-11-16 Thread Sells, Fred
We would like to use Python to automatically deploy new rpm's (assuming we first edit a file to require a new version). I've just starting looking a the rpm module. I can build this from scratch, but was wondering if anyone is/has solved some or all of this problem or could point me to some

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

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