Installing Scrapy on Mac OS X 10.6

2010-03-03 Thread Sky Larking
Has anyone successfully installed Scrapy ( http://scrapy.org ) on a Mac OS X machine running 10.6.x? The Documentaion says Mac OS X ships an libxml2 version too old to be used by Scrapy...But doesn't say which version of OS X.. I am wondering if the version of libxml2 is also not compatible..

Re: Trouble with ftplib uploading to an FTP server

2010-02-25 Thread Sky Larking
On Feb 25, 1:10 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:21:58 -0800 (PST), Sky Larking skylarkin...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: For instance I just ran the script and os.rename() renamed it to: TestMachine.local @ 02-24

Trouble with ftplib uploading to an FTP server

2010-02-24 Thread Sky Larking
This bit of code is designed to get the external IP address and hostname of a client , write it locally to a file, then upload to an FTP server. It works locally( one can see the IP number and hostname with a time stamp in /Users/admin/Documents) , but when the file is opened on the server after

Re: Trouble with ftplib uploading to an FTP server

2010-02-24 Thread Sky Larking
On Feb 24, 3:56 pm, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: Sky Larking wrote: This bit of code is designed to get the external IP address and hostname of a client , write it locally to a file, then upload to an FTP server. It works locally( one can see the IP number and hostname

Python v. Processing

2010-02-10 Thread Sky Larking
I am a light user of Python in a role as a systems administrator...I am new to the list, but have grown to really enjoy using Python to help in my job...Another interest I have ( but haven't fully explored ) is the idea of using programming as a creative outlet .. I have heard Processing: