How to read Mozrepl Javascript result into a Python Variable?

Hi, With Mozrepl addon in Firefox and Python I do: import telnetlib tn = telnetlib.Telnet(r'127.0.0.1', 4242, 5) tn.read_eager() '\nWelcome to MozRepl.\n\n - If you get stuck at the ' tn.read_until(repl ) ...snip... tn.write(r'alert(window.content.location.href)'+\n) and I get an alert box

Re: Read active tab URL from a browser with Python ?

snip Another option might be to use Python in conjuction with AutoIt: http://www.pha.com.au/kb/index.php/Using_AutoIT_with_Python http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/115293-how-to-get-firefox-current-page-address/ This is powerful, and seems like I can call Autoit from Python.

Read active tab URL from a browser with Python ?

Hi, I've goggled this but haven't found a way (at least a way I understand) for a running Python script to get the current URL in a browser's location bar. Is there a way? I'm using Windows so maybe that would provide a way (or not). This isn't for a browser controlled/automated by Python that

How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?

Hi, Using Windows I want to run a .py file script using pythonw.exe so the DOS box will not open. Is there a way from inside the script to say run me with pythonw.exe and not python.exe? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to tell Script to use pythonw.exe ?

I just changed the file extension of the script file from .py to .pyw and it uses pythonw.exe. I didn't read it anywhere, just intuited it and tried it. Python has some very smart people working the language... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to install libxml2-devel and libxslt-devel in Windows ?

Hi, I have Windows XP and Python 2.7.x I download and install libxml2-python-2.7.7.win32-py2.7.exe, From here: http://users.skynet.be/sbi/libxml-python/ This file has both libxml2 AND libxslt. But, I also need libxml2-devel and libxslt-devel for python 2.7. Are binaries for win32 available for

Help understanding an Object Oriented Program example

Hi, Trying to learn Python OOP. An example from a book, may not be formated after sending post but: class Contact: all_contacts = [] def __init__(self, name, email): self.name = name self.email = email Contact.all_contacts.append(self) OK, no I do this: c =

Re: Python Script Works Locally But Not Remotely with SSH

Thank you for the help. I guess I didn't understand what's really going on. I thought if I SSH even from a Linux to a Windows machine whatever I say on the SSH client command line would be the same as me doing a command on the DOS command-line in Windows. I incorrectly thought SSH is just a

Python Script Works Locally But Not Remotely with SSH

Hi, I have a WinXP PC running an SSH server and I have a Linux PC with an SSH client and logged into the XP seemingly OK. It's all on my personal LAN, the connection seems OK. I have a py file on the XP that I run via SSH from the Linux, it's: import webbrowser

Re: Python Script Works Locally But Not Remotely with SSH

Bump(?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

from PyQt4 import QtWebKit ImportError: DLL load failed

Hi, Using WinXP I installed PyQt from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download installation file: PyQt-Py2.7-x86-gpl-4.9-1 then tried: Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type copyright, credits or license() for more

python shell that saves history of typed in commands that will persist between reboots

Hi, Using Windows. Is there a python shell that has a history of typed in commands? I don't need output of commands just what I typed it. I need it to save between sessions - something that no shell seems to do. If I reboot there will still be a command history somewhere. Like bash history in

Trying to write beautifulsoup result to a file and get error message

If I try: ... soup = BeautifulSoup(ft3) f = open(r'c:\NewFolder\clean4.html', w) f.write(soup) f.close() I get error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Documents and Settings\user01\Desktop\py\tb1a.py, line 203, in module f.write(soup) TypeError: expected a character

Processing a large string

Hi, Say I have a very big string with a pattern like: akakksssk3dhdhdhdbddb3dkdkdkddk3dmdmdmd3dkdkdkdk3asnsn. I want to split the sting into separate parts on the 3 and process each part separately. I might run into memory limitations if I use split and get a big array(?) I wondered if

Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'.

Rick gave you some good advice, perhaps worth re-reading. What you need are investigative skills, and not just bits of data. Totally agree. beginning to see what's going on. I'm not specifically accessing the list element with n (vs. n[0]). Printing n uses repr which gives the unicode tag.

Re: Strings show as brackets with a 'u'.

Thank you. So what is happening? Is it that I'm in an environment that is not unicode and python is telling me the string (ie. n[0]) is unicode? (I'll do a hatchet-job on this subject if I ask anymore about unicode). Thanks to posters for their patience! --

Strings show as brackets with a 'u'.

Hi, n [u'174'] Probably newbie question but not sure how suppress the brackets and the 'u' ? I assume pyhon is telling me it's a unicode string in the n variable. I'm using using Idle on winXP, activestate 2.7. Is there a way to suppress this and just show 174 in the shell ? A script

Image processing to auto adjust colors in python ?

Hi, I'm processing thumbnails with python but one thing I need to do is to auto-adjust an image for the best colors. I am using ffmpeg to get thumbs three seconds into a video, sometimes the image is too dark. Normally I'd go into something like the windows program Irfan View and do Auto Adjust

Popen to get stdout and stderr for ffmpeg - No such file or directory ?

Hi, Trying to learn how to run a linux command and get the stdout and stderr. I'm trying the following: cmd3 = r'ffmpeg -i /home/giga/Desktop/Guitar1.flv' p = Popen(cmd3, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#73, line 1, in module p = Popen(cmd3,

Re: Popen to get stdout and stderr for ffmpeg - No such file or directory ?

Read The Fine Manual:http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.Popen: snip... Try instead: cmd3 = ['ffmpeg', '-i', '/home/giga/Desktop/Guitar1.flv'] Cheers, Chris --http://blog.rebertia.com No doubt, I should RTFM...you're right! Yes, works like a charm now. Thanks

Can not uninstall activepython. Missing msi ?

Hi, I want to uninstall Active Python 2.6.2.2 and upgrade. Certain things are not working and it's probably time to upgrade anyway. When I try to uninstall it says missing msi. Before I delete all the folders and clean the registry out is there something I can try to have a normal or more

import module doesn't work for new package

I tried install a Python - would the word be package? - on Ubuntu 10.10. Could you tell me how to fix? I would be grateful, is it a path problem? Thanks. Lee gi...@giga1:~/Desktop/pykhtml-0.2$ sudo python setup.py install [sudo] password for giga1: running install running build running build_py

Python's equivalent to Main calling program and subprograms

Hi, Could someone link me to info - I'm sure this is commonly done: Long ago with Fortran and Pascal there was a pattern used a lot. It was like: Start Main Global Var Subprogram1 Subprogram2 Subprogram3 End of Main End The global var was a var that all the subprograms could

SAX unicode and ascii parsing problem

Hi, I'm trying to parse an xml file using SAX. About half-way through a file I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework \scriptutils.py, line 325, in RunScript exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__ File E:\sc\b2.py,

SAX unicode and ascii parsing problem

Hi, I'm trying to parse an xml file using SAX. About half-way through a file I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework \scriptutils.py, line 325, in RunScript exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__ File E:\sc\b2.py,

Re: SAX unicode and ascii parsing problem

snip... I'm just as stumped as I was when you first asked this question 13 minutes ago. ;-) regards  Steve snip... Hi Steve, Think I found it, for example: line = 'my big string' line.encode('ascii', 'ignore') I processed the problem strings during parsing with this and it works now.

regular expression help

Hi, say: import re m=cccvlvlvlvnnnflfllffccclfnnnooo re.compile(r'ccc.*nnn') rtt=.sub(||,m) rtt '||ooo' The regex is eating up too much. What I want is every non-overlapping occurrence I think. so rtt would be: '||flfllff||ooo' just like findall acts but in this case I

Re: regular expression help

.*? fixed it. Every occurrence of the pattern is now affected, which is what I want. Thank you very much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

list of regex special characters

I am looking for a list of special character in python regular expressions that need to be escaped if you want their literal meaning. I searched and can not find the list. Any help appreciated. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to install uTidylib, easy_install problem

I'm using activepython 2.6 on XP. I am trying to install uTidylib 0.2 with easy_install. I like uTidylib more vs. newer modules.and want to use it. I get output below. How do I install it? I do see it in http://pypi.python.org/simple/uTidylib/ Thanks. C:\Documents and Settings\user1easy_install

Installed modules from Synaptic in Ubuntu problem

Hi, Using Ubuntu linux 9.04 and have python 2.6. I'm trying to add a module from the synaptic installer. It's µTidylib a wrapper for HTML Tidy. It installed with out a problem, when I do a $ help ('modules') I see a module called tidy. But when I do an import tidy in a script I get an error...

Re: assigning multi-line strings to variables

Thank you to posters for help to my question. Seems I had trouble with triple quotes strings in the PythonWin shell. But using the Idle shell things work as expected. But this is probably another issue...any way, w/Idle's shell I got the action regarding multiline strings I expected. --

Python's regular expression help

Hi, Trying to start out with simple things but apparently there's some basics I need help with. This works OK: import re p = re.compile('(ab*)(sss)') m = p.match( 'absss' ) m.group(0) 'absss' m.group(1) 'ab' m.group(2) 'sss' ... But two questions: How can I operate a regex on a string

Re: Python's regular expression help

On Apr 29, 11:49 am, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote: On 04/29/2010 01:00 PM, goldtech wrote: Trying to start out with simple things but apparently there's some basics I need help with. This works OK: import re p = re.compile('(ab*)(sss)') m = p.match( 'absss' ) f

assigning multi-line strings to variables

Hi, This is undoubtedly a newbie question. How doI assign variables multiline strings? If I try this i get what's cited below. Thanks. d=d d d Traceback (most recent call last): File interactive input, line 1, in module NameError: name 'd' is not defined --

Re: assigning multi-line strings to variables

On Apr 27, 7:31 pm, Brendan Abel 007bren...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 27, 7:20 pm, goldtech goldt...@worldpost.com wrote: Hi, This is undoubtedly a newbie question. How doI assign variables multiline strings? If I try this i get what's cited below. Thanks. d=d d d

Re: assigning multi-line strings to variables

On Apr 27, 7:33 pm, MRAB pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com wrote: goldtech wrote: Hi, This is undoubtedly a newbie question. How doI assign variables multiline strings? If I try this i get what's cited below. Thanks. d=d d d Traceback (most recent call last):   File interactive

Idle does not recognize PYTHONPATH

Hi, Idle does not recognize PYTHONPATH set in .bashrc. Starting Python shell in the terminal sys.path shows the PYTHONPATH, but again not shown in IDLE. This is a common problem but I could not find a fix. Using Ubuntu 9.04. Python 2.6. Thanks --

Idle text wrap

Hi, I'm using Idle interactive shell. Actually Idle-Spoon which has a few nice extensions and Python 2.6 on Linux. When I print str_value + \n Where str_value is for example a string of 120 chars. I notice that the lines seem to get hard wrapped at around 80. Is there a way I can config it to

Python and behavior

Could you explain or link me to an explanation of this? Been using Python for a while but not sure I understand what's happening below. Thanks. ss=1 and f ss 'f' ss=0 and f ss 0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python base distribution come with a validating XML parser?

Hi, Basic XML questions, I have a .xml file I want to validate against a .xsd file... Does the Python base distribution come with a validating XML parser? I want to make sure the elements in my xml file vs. the elements defined in my xsd are a match. I could parse both XML and xsd elements to

SAX XML Parse Python error message

SAX XML Parse Python error message Hi, My first attempt at SAX, but have an error message I need help with. I cite the error message, code, and xml below. Be grateful if anyone can tell me what the fix is. Thanks. Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: SAX XML Parse Python error message

, Stefan Behnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: goldtech wrote: My first attempt at SAX, but have an error message I need help with. Just in case you prefer writing readable code over debugging SAX code into existence, try lxml. http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Here is a presentation you might find

Re: SAX XML Parse Python error message

On Jul 13, 5:30 pm, Waldemar Osuch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 13, 3:00 pm, goldtech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would be grateful for support with the code I cited. It's not long and fairly standard. I'm sure my error(s) would be glaring to more experienced coders. I appreciated

Re: Tkinter scrollbar and checkbox

snip... I use wxPython most of the time, however effbot has a good tutorial on scrollbars for Tkinter that I think you might find helpful: http://effbot.org/zone/tkinter-scrollbar-patterns.htm Here's another link on the subject:

Tkinter scrollbar and checkbox

Hi, I'm stumped on how to have a scrollbar with a long list of checkboxes. Given code like: from Tkinter import * root = Tk() states = [] for i in range(150): var = IntVar() chk = Checkbutton(root, text=str(i), variable=var) chk.grid(sticky=W) states.append(var) root.mainloop()

String manipulation questions

Hi, Replacing strings in a text (likely an XML) file. Some newbie questions... ... while line: counter=counter+1 if line.find(newstring) != -1: print 'match at line'+str(counter) newline = line.replace(oldstring, newstring) fileOUT.write(newline)

Re: String manipulation questions

snip... for counter, line in enumerate(fileIN): newline = line.replace(oldstring, newstring) if newline != line: print 'match at line', counter+1 fileOUT.write(newline) enumerate - haven't seen that before. Nice! Thanks --

Re: Python ADO Date Time database fields

snip try this: val = oRS.Fields(dt).Value print type(val) this gives: type 'time' print float(val) yes, it gives 0.0 But there should be a way to print what is *actually in the field*. When I open the DB table in Access I see: 12:00:00 AM. That's what I want - the value, and the form

Python ADO Date Time database fields

Hi, Given an MS-Access table with a date type field with a value of: 12:00:00 AM - just12:00:00 AM, there's nothing else in the field. I want to print exactly what's in the field, ie. 12:00:00 AM. What I get printed is: 12/30/0/ 00:00:00 I try: import win32com.client from win32.client import

Tk Tkinter : multiple file selection dialog over multiple directories ?

Hi, TKinter question Let's say I use: ... files = tkFileDialog.askopenFilenames(filetypes=[('AccessDB Files', '*.mdb')]) ... This works OK - I can select multiple files and the var files will be a tuple of the files. But let's say the files I want to select are in different folders/

Win32.com

Given WinXP. I remove Pythonwin and it seems I lose win32.com. I can't import win32.com Is win32.com bundled with Pythonwin? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Test for a unicode string

snip... Like: if unicode string: print 'string's line #' else: process the string If I use re.UNICODE like: m = re.match(r\w+, s, re.UNICODE) then it seems to fix my problem. Trying to read as much as I can on unicode --

Test for a unicode string

Hi, I have a regular expression test in a script. When a unicode character get tested in the regex it gives an error: UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) Question: Is there a way to test a string for unicode chars (ie. test if a string will throw the error cited

A Python way to get MS Access table column information?

Using Python and OBDC in MS-Access DBs. So, I'm able to run SQL statements from Python on an Access DB. Is there an SQL statement that will give me column information? For a table I want to know the data type and of course colum/Attribute name for each column. So far the answer has been no. VB

Re: How to create a file on users XP desktop

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon desktop = shell.SHGetFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP, 0, 0) /code I have a general problem with using win32com. It's the documentation. I never know what is available, what classes, methods, what they do. Even some of the existing

Re: Tkinter text widget

On Oct 7, 11:00 am, Simon Forman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 6, 11:18 pm, goldtech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the DISABLED made it so I could not edit it. But it also makes it so I can not scroll down. If you make the window smaller than the content then try to put a cursor

Re: How to create a file on users XP desktop

from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon desktop = shell.SHGetFolderPath (0, shellcon.CSIDL_DESKTOP, 0, 0) /code Tim, How did you learn Win32com? Other than the O'Reilly book, I've never found a lot of documentation. Trying to browse COM in PythonWin is tough - there's tons of stuff in

Re: Tkinter text widget

After some Google searching I found ScrolledText, this does what I want :^) from Tkinter import * from ScrolledText import ScrolledText root = Tk() text = ScrolledText(root, font=(Courier)) ScrolledText text.pack() i='123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz\n' for x in range(30):

Re: Tkinter text widget

You can scroll, but you can't see the cursor. Use for x in range(30): text.insert(END, %3d % x + i) to check. ED I tried it w/the line numbers. On my system I see 0-23. But there is no way to scroll. Still the same result. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to create a file on users XP desktop

This is really a Windows question, not a Python question. You should have been able to figure it out yourself by examining existing environment variables. I agree, you're right. I learn more by figuring out the code myself. After Google briefly: In a DOS box type: SET This was too easy -

Tkinter text widget

I thought the DISABLED made it so I could not edit it. But it also makes it so I can not scroll down. If you make the window smaller than the content then try to put a cursor in there to use up/down arrow you can't. What I want is not to be able to change text content, but no other action is

How to create a file on users XP desktop

Can anyone link me or explain the following: I open a file in a python script. I want the new file's location to be on the user's desktop in a Windows XP environment. fileHandle = open (., 'w' ) what I guess I'm looking for is an environmental variable that will usually be correct on most

Re: tkinter question

try to change listbox.pack() to listbox.pack(expand=True, fill=BOTH) .. is it that you want ? Yes. -mykhal Worked with TRUE all uppercase. Exactly what I needed. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

tkinter question

This works OK. But I notice that if I enlarge the window after the script has run, the white listbox only gets so big while the grey background enlarges. Is there a way to have it all white when I enlarge a window - like what normally happens? from Tkinter import * root = Tk() root.title(Dirty

Parameter Passing - String Variable Truncated ?

Hi, I'm passing what I think is a string parameter to another Python program (spawn.py) - see the code snip below. But only the counter part gets printed to a log file via spawn.py. Yet the echo print to the output window shows the whole string with the fc part. Better explained below I hope,

Re: Parameter Passing - String Variable Truncated ?

snip... -- Try handle.write(repr(sys.argv[1:]) + \n) and come back with your conclusions ... unless of course someone has spoonfed you in the meantime. Another clue: write yourself a little arg-dumper script and try running it in a Command Prompt window. 8---

Python syntax r prefix to a string

Does anyone know this syntax and could link me to an explanation? Something like: Workspace = r'C:\foobar\mystuff\xyz' What's that r doing? Sometimes I see a u too. Explanation appreciated. Thanks, Lee G. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

C++ Runtime Library error message - Pythonwin?

Hi, Doing GIS [Geographic Information Systems] scripts. I was running a batch clip script that worked OK for 126 iterations then I got the following message: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library program: C:\python21\pythonwin\pythonwin.exe This application has requested the runtime to

Re: frequency analysis of a DB column

Just wanted to thank the Posters for the help! Thanks. Lee G. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Submit web form only client-side with Python? COM?

Say I have have an HTML form , the user hits the submit button and I what text they enetered into a HTML form field is written to a file. But I don't have PHP, JAVA the usual client or server sided layers to write the data to a file, and I'm not to keen on JavaScript. Note: I can not add or

Client-side HTML form processing with Python?

I want to have an HTML form from a local local html file write a text field's data to a local text file. I have no client or server side tools like PHP, JAVA. I don't know JavaScript. I can not add anything to the workstation I am using. It's going to have to be a client-side solution - there's

Re: Client-side HTML form processing with Python?

Looks like Tkinter is the way to do it. There's always a way with Python - good stuff! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

frequency analysis of a DB column

In Python 2.1 are there any tools to take a column from a DB and do a frequency analysis - a breakdown of the values for this column? Possibly a histogram or a table saying out of 500 records I have one hundred and two 301 ninety-eight 212 values and three-hundred 410? Is SQL the way to for