Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread Jerry Hill
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, and produces what I would call something of a mess to the unwary Python/W7 user. Is there a simple solution? I know people went off on a tangent

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread chris grebeldinger
Have you tried opening file explorer in administrative mode before performing the copy? I think if there isn't sufficient permissions, it does something weird like that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread Gib Bogle
chris grebeldinger wrote: Have you tried opening file explorer in administrative mode before performing the copy? I think if there isn't sufficient permissions, it does something weird like that. No -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread Michel Claveau - MVP
Hi! Symbolic links are available in NTFS starting with Windows Vista. No. Hardlink come with NTFS, and already exists in W2K (and NT with specifics utilities). @-salutations -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread buggsy2
W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com writes: I noted that this search box has some sort of filter associated with it. Possibly, in my early stages of learning to navigate in Win7, I accidentally set the filter. Comments? FYI, the only truly reliable and powerful file search utility I've found

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michel Claveau - MVP enleverlesx_xx...@xmclavxeaux.com.invalid wrote: Hi! Symbolic links are available in NTFS starting with Windows Vista. No. Hardlink come with NTFS, and already exists in W2K (and NT with specifics utilities). @-salutations -- Michel

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-23 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:34:00 -0500, Jerry Hill wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, and produces what I would call something of a mess to the unwary Python/W7 user. Is there

What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread W. eWatson
Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the file. I looked at properties for

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Krister Svanlund
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the program

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread MRAB
W. eWatson wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the file. I looked

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-22, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. [tail of various windows breakages elided] Comments? Switch to Linux? Or at least install Cygwin? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Maybe I should have

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Shashwat Anand
Programming is most fruiful in *nix environment. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalidwrote: On 2010-02-22, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. [tail of various windows breakages elided]

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/22/2010 8:29 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-02-22, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. [tail of various windows breakages elided] Comments? Switch to Linux? Or at least install Cygwin? Yes, definitely not related, but

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Gib Bogle
MRAB wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the program in B. Win7 went into search mode for the

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread John Bokma
Gib Bogle g.bo...@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz writes: MRAB wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A, and fired up the

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-22, John Bokma j...@castleamber.com wrote: Gib Bogle g.bo...@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz writes: MRAB wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread John Bokma
Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid writes: On 2010-02-22, John Bokma j...@castleamber.com wrote: Gib Bogle g.bo...@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz writes: MRAB wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Gib Bogle
John Bokma wrote: Gib Bogle g.bo...@auckland.no.spam.ac.nz writes: MRAB wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Last night I copied a program from folder A to folder B. It inspects the contents of files in a folder. When I ran it in B, it gave the results for A! Out of frustration I changed the name in A,

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-22, John Bokma j...@castleamber.com wrote: Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid writes: Windows 7 has symbolic links? Symbolic links are designed to aid in migration and application compatibility with UNIX operating systems. Microsoft has implemented its symbolic links

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message mailman.60.1266854492.4577.python-l...@python.org, MRAB wrote: Not Python-related. Seems to be pretty common with Windows-related complaints in this group. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message 873a0tszco@castleamber.com, John Bokma wrote: According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365006(VS.85).aspx There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file system: hard links, junctions, and symbolic links. This topic is an overview of

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread W. eWatson
So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, and produces what I would call something of a mess to the unwary Python/W7 user. Is there a simple solution? How do I get out of this pickle? I just want to duplicate the program in another folder, and not link to an

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread David Robinow
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatson wolftra...@invalid.com wrote: How do I get out of this pickle? I just want to duplicate the  program in another folder, and not link to an ancestor. Ask in an appropriate forum. I'm not sure where that is but you might try http://www.sevenforums.com/

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/22/2010 6:39 PM, David Robinow wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, W. eWatsonwolftra...@invalid.com wrote: How do I get out of this pickle? I just want to duplicate the program in another folder, and not link to an ancestor. Ask in an appropriate forum. I'm not sure where that is

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* W. eWatson: So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, Well, Windows NT has always had *hardlinks*. g I found it a bit baffling that that functionality is documented as not implemented for Windows in the Python standard library. But OK, it was non-trivial

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/22/2010 8:50 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * W. eWatson: So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, Well, Windows NT has always had *hardlinks*. g I found it a bit baffling that that functionality is documented as not implemented for Windows in the Python

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread W. eWatson
On 2/22/2010 8:50 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * W. eWatson: So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, Well, Windows NT has always had *hardlinks*. g I found it a bit baffling that that functionality is documented as not implemented for Windows in the Python

Re: What's Going on between Python and win7?

2010-02-22 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* W. eWatson: On 2/22/2010 8:50 PM, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: * W. eWatson: So what's the bottom line? This link notion is completely at odds with XP, Well, Windows NT has always had *hardlinks*. g I found it a bit baffling that that functionality is documented as not implemented for Windows