Re: Getting wxPython to work on a Mac

2007-12-05 Thread Timothy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't get an answer here, you should try the wxPython mailing list: http://www.wxpython.org/maillist.php I'm sure they'll be able to help you out (I don't have a Mac, so I don't know). OK, will try there. Thanks. --

Re: Getting wxPython to work on a Mac

2007-12-05 Thread Timothy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Piet van Oostrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TS I set PYTHONPATH to TS System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5 Why would you do that? Don't know, as it's not clear (to me) from the documentation whether PYTHONPATH has to include a

Getting wxPython to work on a Mac

2007-12-04 Thread Timothy Smith
Not sure exactly what I need to do to get wxPython to work on either of my Macs. (One's a notebook running Tiger (OS X 10.4.11), the other a Mac Pro running Leopard (10.5.1.)) I downloaded what should be the latest binary, and it installed without error. So Python comes up as $ python -V

threads and return values

2006-09-13 Thread Timothy Smith
say i'm issuing t = Thread(target=lambda: WeeklyReportPDF.MakeReport(self.UserNameValue, self.PassWordValue,ReportType,self.db)) t.start() which works just fine, BUT how do i get access to the return value of WeeklyReportPDF.MakeReport() ?? --

Re: FtpUtils Progress Bar

2006-09-13 Thread Timothy Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can successfully upload and download files using Stefan's Schwarzer's ftputil script. The problem is that as some of the files are quite large you cannot see how much has been downloaded/uploaded. Even a percentage or just dots going across the screen would be

Re: sending bytes to parallel port

2006-07-29 Thread Timothy Smith
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: fd = open('/dev/ppi0','w') fcntl.ioctl(fd.fileno(),'PPISCTRL',1000) Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? TypeError: an integer is required i guess i'm failing to properly define the int i need for the 8byte value ineed to send the

Re: sending bytes to parallel port

2006-07-29 Thread Timothy Smith
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: *sigh* if only pyparallel would install *sigh* If only you said _what_ failed we could maybe help you make it work... :) Diez titan# python setup.py install running install running build running build_py Traceback (most recent call last): File setup.py,

sending bytes to parallel port

2006-07-28 Thread Timothy Smith
hello people. i've been trying to send an 8 byte string to my parallel port under freebsd. the purpose is it to control a relay board. the board simply responds to the output byte coming from the port. eg. 0001 will set pin 1 high and flick the relay open. todate i've attempted this with

Re: sending bytes to parallel port

2006-07-28 Thread Timothy Smith
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-07-28, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been trying to send an 8 byte string to my parallel port under freebsd. the purpose is it to control a relay board. the board simply responds to the output byte coming from the port. eg. 0001 will set

Re: sending bytes to parallel port

2006-07-28 Thread Timothy Smith
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-07-29, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd particularly recommend taking a look at the pyparallel module found here: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ Oops, there isn't actually a link to pyparallel from that page (I swear there used to be).

Re: sending bytes to parallel port

2006-07-28 Thread Timothy Smith
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:59:02 +1000, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: and yes i've done quite a bit of googling, i never expected it to be this difficult. i've done work with serial ports before. never parallel

Re: an intriguing wifi http server mystery...please help

2005-11-30 Thread Timothy Smith
Paul McNett wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Laptop wired, client Desktop wired, server GREAT! webpage served in 2 seconds 2) Laptop wired, server Deskop wired, client GREAT! webpage served in 2 seconds 3) Laptop wireless, client Desktop wireless, server GREAT! webpage served in 2 seconds

Re: Python obfuscation

2005-11-10 Thread Timothy Smith
Reliability is important but so is protecting your code in an effective manner there is no way to prevent people disassembling your code compiled or otherwise. once you give then the program they can easily take it apart. no if's, no but's; do NOT rely on binary's for security. the big

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-11 Thread Timothy Smith
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: i have reproduced the error in this code block #save values in edit self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() if Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) == Decimal('0'): #box must be checked

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
Terry Hancock wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:57 pm, Timothy Smith wrote: i try to run my app and i get this %python DutyShift.py error thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more descriptive message

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
i have reproduced the error in this code block #save values in edit self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() if Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) == Decimal('0'): #box must be

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith wrote: i have reproduced the error in this code block #save values in edit self.FinaliseTill.SaveEditControlValue() if Decimal(self.parent.TillDetails[self.TillSelection.GetStringSelection()]['ChangeTinBalance'])) == Decimal('0

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:12:13AM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: FAYI i have already found it and it was a wrongly indented code block :/ When indentation leaves an illegal program structure, Python gives a very informative error message, such as File /tmp

Re: non descriptive error

2005-10-09 Thread Timothy Smith
Neil Hodgson wrote: Timothy Smith: FYI i have located where the problem was. in the first if statement there was an unbalanced ). now since when does python not give a descriptive error for that? I see this with the arrow pointing at the extra ')': pythonw -u xx.py File xx.py

non descriptive error

2005-10-06 Thread Timothy Smith
i try to run my app and i get this %python DutyShift.py error thats it. thats the error. mya pp was previously working, and i did make some fairly large changes to it, but i'd expect a more descriptive message then just error. anyidea where i need to start looking? --

catching all tracebacks

2005-10-05 Thread Timothy Smith
iw ant to use a singel try except statment with my main app loop in the middle and catch all tracebacks and email them to myself as a bug report. however it seems a little more tricky then i thought try: Main.Main() except Exception, err_o: print err_o.__class__.__name__, '//', err_o,

Re: catching all tracebacks

2005-10-05 Thread Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith wrote: iw ant to use a singel try except statment with my main app loop in the middle and catch all tracebacks and email them to myself as a bug report. however it seems a little more tricky then i thought try: Main.Main() except Exception, err_o: print err_o.__class__

Re: services on linux

2005-09-20 Thread Timothy Smith
Martin Franklin wrote: Christoph Haas wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:57:26AM -0500, pt python wrote: im moving from the windows world to the linux world and i need to make a python script to see if a service is instaled (ex: apache), if it is running or stoped and to start/stop a

OCR librarys

2005-09-12 Thread Timothy Smith
i'm looking for ocr librarys with reasonably free licensing and the ablity to use python with them. c library's that i can call from python are acceptable. so far all i have run into is voodoo and wild claims. i've tried gocr, and it wasn't very impressive. i'm like to be able to ocr

Re: OCR librarys

2005-09-12 Thread Timothy Smith
Larry Bates wrote: You need to specify a platform you will be running on. I've had good experience with ExperVision's RTK toolkit on Windows. It is not free, but it is very, very good. Sometimes software is actually worth paying for ;-). Larry Bates Timothy Smith wrote: i'm looking

Re: startfile problems

2005-08-02 Thread Timothy Smith
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:10:23 +1000, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: i'm very curious as to what everyone thinks I suspect most of us think: Where's the code? followed by: Where's the traceback

Re: startfile problems

2005-08-02 Thread Timothy Smith
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:35:27 +1000, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: it's iterally just PDFname = 'tmp.pdf' os.startfile(PDFname) thats the code. No import os? And the full traceback? so

Re: startfile problems

2005-08-02 Thread Timothy Smith
Michael Hoffman wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: yep the program is executed in the same dir as the pdf file. like i said it actually opens it, but throws up an exception as well. You are far more likely to get informed help if you post the traceback here, as has been suggested twice

startfile problems

2005-08-01 Thread Timothy Smith
hello i have a very odd issue with os.startfile() ok basicly my app works perfectly on every single other pc todate. i cannot recreate this issue on any system. so i've already ruled out any obvious coding issues, such as wrong file names etc. this issue only occurs on this one old pc. upon

decimal and trunkating

2005-06-02 Thread Timothy Smith
i want to trunkate 199.999 to 199.99 getcontext.prec = 2 isn't what i'm after either, all that does is E's the value. do i really have to use floats to do this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: query progress bar

2005-05-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Harald Massa wrote: it's for wx, the problem isn't making the progress bar itself, it's knowing how long the query is going to run for. i'm using pypgsql It is quite easy: from timemachine import oracle guesser=oracle(guess=SQL) guesser.set_hint(driver=pypgsql) guesser.set_hint(gui=wx)

Re: Windows distribution suggestions?

2005-05-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Paul Rubin wrote: As what must be penance for something or other, I'm needing to release a Python app for use under Windows XP. Please be gentle with me since I'm a Un*x weenie and the only thing I've had much practice with under Windows is rebooting it. My app contains three different programs

Re: Windows distribution suggestions?

2005-05-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Paul Rubin wrote: Bernhard Holzmayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can feel your unhappiness, and I share it. Hi Paul! Here are some hints... Thanks! ;-) Since your installer needs to run before Python is installed, you need something else. Go to http://www.wisesolutions.com You'll

Re: Windows distribution suggestions?

2005-05-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Toby Dickenson wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:35, Timothy Smith wrote: mate dont bugger around with all that. py2exe will make you a windows native exe to run. and for updates you just need to update it's library.zip. py2exe is working great for me too. My app contains three

Re: Windows distribution suggestions?

2005-05-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Ivan Voras wrote: Paul Rubin wrote: your active code is then in some library.zip shared between the three, and you need never change alice.exe, bob.exe, and carol.exe I think I understand what you're saying and it sounds like a very good idea. Thanks. One thing about updating

Re: query progress bar

2005-05-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Bernhard Holzmayer wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: i'm using pypgsql Assuming you work with PostgreSQL, then: You know the EXPLAIN command? EXPLAIN will give you a very accurate estimation for the expense for the query. (You'll have to find out what cost means in terms of your progress

query progress bar

2005-05-16 Thread Timothy Smith
is it possible to mke a progress bar for queries? say i have a query that will take 20 seconds, i'd like to give some feed back to users on how long this will take. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python on a public library computer

2005-05-16 Thread Timothy Smith
John J. Lee wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's my situation: I'm typing this in a public library on a computer with OS windows 2000 server. I can run Internet explorer, word, excel and powerpoint, that's it. Maybe java, but it seems to be flaky. I want to run python

Re: query progress bar

2005-05-16 Thread Timothy Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of UI is this for? The Python Cookbook, 2nd Ed. has a nice textual solution. I'm not sure if this is the same one, but here is a href=http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/168639;one from ASPN/a. Here is one a

urllib download insanity

2005-05-11 Thread Timothy Smith
ok what i am seeing is impossible. i DELETED the file from my webserver, uploaded the new one. when my app logs in it checks the file, if it's changed it downloads it. the impossible part, is that on my pc is downloading the OLD file i've deleted! if i download it via IE, i get the new file.

Re: sync dir's

2005-05-10 Thread Timothy Smith
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: what would be the best tool to use to sync my local dir with a remote one, say off a http resorce (although i'm open to other options there) i rsync? wget --mirror? /F i need something which has a python library, so far i haven't seen

Re: sync dir's

2005-05-10 Thread Timothy Smith
Gerhard Haering wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:21:30PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: i need something which has a python library, so far i haven't seen anything like that for rsync. i'll check out the others but http://osx.freshmeat.net/projects/pysync/ Pysync has both

RE: py23-pysvn-svn114-1.2.0-415.exe won't load on win98

2005-05-09 Thread Timothy Smith
hello there, i get the following error when attempting to load pysvn on a win98 system Traceback (most recent call last): File PubWare.py, line 11, in ? File Main.pyc, line 46, in ? File pysvn\__init__.pyc, line 12, in ? File pysvn\_pysvn.pyc, line 9, in ? File pysvn\_pysvn.pyc, line 7,

sync dir's

2005-05-09 Thread Timothy Smith
what would be the best tool to use to sync my local dir with a remote one, say off a http resorce (although i'm open to other options there) i haven't gotten any feed back on my problems with loading pysvn on win98, and i can apprechiate if the dev's are too busy/can't be bothered with win98.

computer unable to load _pysvn.pyc

2005-05-08 Thread Timothy Smith
this is truely maddening Traceback (most recent call last): File PubWare.py, line 11, in ? File Main.pyc, line 46, in ? File pysvn\__init__.pyc, line 12, in ? File pysvn\_pysvn.pyc, line 9, in ? File pysvn\_pysvn.pyc, line 7, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed: A device attached to

Re: computer unable to load _pysvn.pyc

2005-05-08 Thread Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith wrote: this is truely maddening Traceback (most recent call last): File PubWare.py, line 11, in ? File Main.pyc, line 46, in ? File pysvn\__init__.pyc, line 12, in ? File pysvn\_pysvn.pyc, line 9, in ? File pysvn\_pysvn.pyc, line 7, in __load ImportError: DLL load failed

Re: computer unable to load _pysvn.pyc

2005-05-08 Thread Timothy Smith
vincent wehren wrote: Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Timothy Smith wrote: | | this is truely maddening | | Traceback (most recent call last): | File PubWare.py, line 11, in ? | File Main.pyc, line 46, in ? | File pysvn\__init__.pyc, line 12

Re: py2exe + svn - the final drama

2005-05-06 Thread Timothy Smith
Timothy Smith wrote: ok, i am updating my program from my svn - this works, however, i am getting the following error when i close the program. the zip file successfully updates, so i'm curious as to the meaning of this. Traceback (most recent call last): File Main.pyo, line 820

Re: py2exe + svn - the final drama

2005-05-06 Thread Timothy Smith
Just wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Bolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you perhaps trying to update the zip file in-place while it is still being used by the application? I'm not sure that's a safe operation. I'm sure it's not :) [lots of useful help snipped] the

Re: py2exe + svn - the final drama

2005-05-06 Thread Timothy Smith
David Bolen wrote: Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what i do is as soon as the update is complete i close the app, but it still gives the error, i tried clear() after update and before it, it still got the same error. it's be nice to not have to fiddle around with the zip file, i

Re: Py2Exe security

2005-05-05 Thread Timothy Smith
i used to work in a place that did this exact same thing. they attempted to hide passwords in source code. there is an even bigger problem with this then security of it in source - if someone comprimises the password, how are you going to change it quickly? all those systems will have to update

Re: py2exe and library.zip

2005-05-05 Thread Timothy Smith
David Bolen wrote: Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know that Subversion has (as I understand it) a fairly intelligent binary file comparison routine, and it will (again, as I understand it) not transmit the entire contents of the zip file but would actually send only the

py2exe + svn - the final drama

2005-05-05 Thread Timothy Smith
ok, i am updating my program from my svn - this works, however, i am getting the following error when i close the program. the zip file successfully updates, so i'm curious as to the meaning of this. Traceback (most recent call last): File Main.pyo, line 820, in ValidateLogin File Main.pyo,

Re: py2exe and library.zip

2005-05-04 Thread Timothy Smith
Simon Brunning wrote: On 5/4/05, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Brunning wrote: The zip file is a generated artifact. I've always found it a good rule of thumb that you should keep source artifacts in your version control system, not generated artifacts. version

Re: py2exe and library.zip

2005-05-04 Thread Timothy Smith
Peter Hansen wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: Anything's possible. Maybe you could explain what you're actually trying to accomplish (or the reasons) so we can better understand where you're going with this... exactly what i just stated, i don't want py2exe

utf encoding error

2005-05-04 Thread Timothy Smith
hi there, this one is in relation to my py2exe saga. when i compile a package using py2exe i get the error msg below, if i just run the py files it doesn't error, so i assume pysvn is trying to use something thats not being included in the build. only i have no idea where to start looking.

Re: py2exe and library.zip

2005-05-03 Thread Timothy Smith
Peter Hansen wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: is it possible instead of py2exe putting all library's in a zip file, to just put them in a sub dir? Anything's possible. Maybe you could explain what you're actually trying to accomplish (or the reasons) so we can better understand where

py2exe and library.zip

2005-05-02 Thread Timothy Smith
is it possible instead of py2exe putting all library's in a zip file, to just put them in a sub dir? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

pysvn install on freebsd

2005-04-16 Thread Timothy Smith
has anyone used or installed this on fbsd the install for it is totally redundant. i get this error for it make -f freebsd.mak clean all test cd ../Source make -f pysvn_freebsd_py.mak clean make: cannot open pysvn_freebsd_py.mak. *** Error code 2 Stop in

pysvn install on freebsd

2005-04-15 Thread Timothy Smith
has anyone used or installed this on fbsd the install for it is totally redundant. i get this error for it make -f freebsd.mak clean all test cd ../Source make -f pysvn_freebsd_py.mak clean make: cannot open pysvn_freebsd_py.mak. *** Error code 2 Stop in

Re: cross platform use of set locale

2005-03-23 Thread Timothy Smith
Serge Orlov wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: thats ok, but how do i get it to group thousands with a , ? and thats would mean i'd have to run everything through a formatter before i displayed it :/ it'd be nicer if i could just select a proper locale I think you're misusing locale

Re: cross platform use of set locale

2005-03-23 Thread Timothy Smith
Serge Orlov wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: Serge Orlov wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: thats ok, but how do i get it to group thousands with a , ? and thats would mean i'd have to run everything through a formatter before i displayed it :/ it'd be nicer if i could just select a proper

cross platform use of set locale

2005-03-22 Thread Timothy Smith
hi there i need to set my locale so that when i output a number it's formatted with thousands grouped. the problem i've found is there doesn't seem to be very good cross platform support for locales, even between unix's it's horrid. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: cross platform use of set locale

2005-03-22 Thread Timothy Smith
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Timothy Smith wrote: hi there i need to set my locale so that when i output a number it's formatted with thousands grouped. the problem i've found is there doesn't seem to be very good cross platform support for locales, even between

fastest postgresql module

2005-03-17 Thread Timothy Smith
has anyone got some hard numbers on which pg access module is the fastest, i currently use pypgsql, but i can't help but feel it's a little slow. 3 seconds to connect, send one query, get th return data. i'm on a adsl 1.5mbit/256kbit link, the server is on a 10/10mbit, and i have a ping of

Re: fastest postgresql module

2005-03-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Leif B. Kristensen wrote: Timothy Smith skrev: has anyone got some hard numbers on which pg access module is the fastest, i currently use pypgsql, but i can't help but feel it's a little slow. 3 seconds to connect, send one query, get th return data. i'm on a adsl 1.5mbit/256kbit link

Re: fastest postgresql module

2005-03-17 Thread Timothy Smith
Leif B. Kristensen wrote: Timothy Smith skrev: my only issue with psycopg, is last time i looked they had no win32 port? Uh, in that case, maybe you should consider changing platform? 8^) my app has to be multiplatform, but i would gladly rip windows from the drives of every computer

Re: locale support and 4.10

2005-03-05 Thread Timothy Smith
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Timothy Smith wrote: locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, 'us') the exact same thing works under windows xp. do i have to compile it with locale support? No. You have to choose a locale name that is supported by your operating system (which appears to be FreeBSD). Read

locale support and 4.10

2005-03-04 Thread Timothy Smith
i'm trying to setlocale() on 4.10, and it appears the python package doesn't support this under 4.10. Python 2.3.3 (#2, Apr 28 2004, 22:48:37) [GCC 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]] on freebsd4 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import locale