ANN: pyISBNdb 0.1

2006-04-07 Thread Daniel Bickett
Package: pyISBNdb Version: 0.1 Pre-Alpha Author: Daniel Bickett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://heureusement.org/programming/pyISBNdb/ ABOUT: pyISBNdb is a library that serves as a pythonic interface with the ISBNdb.com API, a service that provides a vast database of book information free

ANN: ConfigObj 4.3.0

2006-04-07 Thread Fuzzyman
`ConfigObj 4.3.0 http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html`_ is now released. This has several bugfixes, as well as *several* major feature enhancements. You can download it from : `ConfigObj-4.3.0.zip 244Kb

Re: How to create a tear off menu in TKinter. Help Needed

2006-04-07 Thread Jim Segrave
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ishtar2020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody I'd appreciate some help on creating a tear off menu with TkInter. I've been reading some documentation but still no luck. Please don't get confused: when I mean tear off menu I don't mean a drop-down or a pop-up

Re: good style guides for python-style documentation ?

2006-04-07 Thread sushant . sirsikar
Fredrik Lundh wrote: (reposted from doc-sig, which seems to be mostly dead these days). over at the pytut wiki, carndt asked: Are there any guidelines about conventions concerning punctuation, text styles and language style (e.g. how to address the reader)? any suggestions

Re: how to make a generator use the last yielded value when it regains control

2006-04-07 Thread Lonnie Princehouse
Here's my take on the thing. It only prints one term, though. http://www.magicpeacefarm.com/lonnie/code/morris.py.html (a bit too long to post) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unicode, command-line and idle

2006-04-07 Thread a . serrano
Martin v. Löwis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works if I use the console but gives the following error if I use IDLE: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\test.py, line 4, in ? text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding) AttributeError: PyShell instance has

Re: Simple string formatting question

2006-04-07 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Paul McGuire wrote: Ooops, don't combine the two calls to rstrip(). def format(f, width=3): return (%.*f % (width, f)).rstrip(.0) print format(3.140) print format(3.000) print format(3.001) print format(30.) print format(30.000) hey, I'm doing test-driven development. being

Re: Partially unpacking a sequence

2006-04-07 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, everyone, for resolving my question. At one point, while trying to solve the problem, I typed y[1,3] Traceback (most recent call last): File interactive input, line 1, in ? TypeError: list indices must be integers The error message gave me no clue

Re: Python CGI problem: correct result, but incorrect browser response.

2006-04-07 Thread Tim Roberts
Sullivan WxPyQtKinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: title:Python CGI problem: correct result, but incorrect browser response. In one of my CGI program,named 'login.py', the script return a HEADER to web browser: Set-Cookie: sessionID=LAABUQLUCZIQJTZDWTFE; Set-Cookie: username=testuser; Status:302

Re: Difference in Python and Ruby interactive shells

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Otten
Alex Martelli wrote: Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want this recipe from Michael Hudson: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/160164 automatically upgrade class instances on reload() Note that the version in the printed Cookbook (2nd edition)

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

2006-04-07 Thread Evren Esat Ozkan
Ok, I think this code snippet enough to show what i said; === #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #Change utf-8 to latin-1 #Or move variable decleration to another file than import it val='00090±NO:±H±H±H±H±' from urllib import urlencode

subprocess freeze with rsync on windows

2006-04-07 Thread William Dode
Hi, I try to call rsync (with ssh) with subprocess but _some times_ it freeze without traceback, without any reason. My code look like that : def sh(self,cmd): log.debug(S cmd: + .join(cmd)) p = Popen(cmd, stdout = PIPE, stderr = PIPE) stdout, stderr =

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-07 Thread Michele Simionato
I think looking at the occurrences in the standard library only is unfair. I have a large Zope +Plone+my stuff installation and I get 154 occurrences of 'create' but nearly 0 occurrences of 'make' (only a few in Zope/lib/python/BTrees/tests/testSetOps.py). I guess 'make' sounds too Lispy, this is

ftplib question

2006-04-07 Thread eight02645999
hi my purpose is just to connect to an FTP server and delete all files in a directory Is there a way using ftplib module? something like ftp.delete(*) ? another way i can do is using LIST to list out all the files in that directory, grab the filename, append to an array, then do a for loop to

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding � character

2006-04-07 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Evren Esat Ozkan wrote: Ok, I think this code snippet enough to show what i said; === #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #Change utf-8 to latin-1 #Or move variable decleration to another file than import it val='00090±NO:±H±H±H±H±' from

Re: Partially unpacking a sequence

2006-04-07 Thread bruno at modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a list y y ['20001201', 'ARRO', '04276410', '18.500', '19.500', '18.500', '19.500', '224'] from which I want to extract only the 2nd and 4th item by partially unpacking the list. So I tried a,b = y[2,4] Mmm, so lovely and meaningful names !-) FWIW,

Re: recursion and linked lists

2006-04-07 Thread Ed Singleton
On 01/04/06, John Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I V wrote: Note that print gets called after _each_ time that printBackward returns. So, as the different calls to printBackward return, they print whatever 'head' was set to in that invocation. Now, logically enough, the last call to

Re: HTMLParser fragility

2006-04-07 Thread Richie Hindle
[Richie] But Tidy fails on huge numbers of real-world HTML pages. [...] Is there a Python HTML tidier which will do as good a job as a browser? [Walter] You can also use the HTML parser from libxml2 [Paul] libxml2 will attempt to parse HTML if asked to [...] See how it fixes up the

Re: Quickie: converting r\x2019 to int

2006-04-07 Thread Robin Haswell
On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:00:13 +0200, Just wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Haswell wrote: Is this what you mean? In [9]: int(r'\x2019'[2:], 16) Out[9]: 8217 or maybe you meant this: In [6]: ord(u'\u2019') Out[6]: 8217 Or even:

Re: how to make a generator use the last yielded value when it regains control

2006-04-07 Thread Azolex
just couldn't help taking the bait... def morris(seed) : m = morris('3447221') m.next() '1324172211' m.next() '1113121411172221' m.next() '31131112111431173211' assert isinstance(seed,basestring) and seed.isdigit(),bad seed def

Re: The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language

2006-04-07 Thread Azolex
Michael Yanowitz wrote: At-least Pythetic isn't a word (yet). :))) now that's quite pythetic ! hmmm, clearly that word could become damaging to python, so I suggest the best course is to preventively focus the meaning in a way that prevents the danger, by providing canonical examples of,

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Serge Orlov wrote: bruno at modulix wrote: Steven Bethard wrote: The PEP below should be mostly self explanatory. I'll try to keep the most updated versions available at: [snip] Seems mostly clean. +1. That's what Trojans said when they saw a wooden horse at the gates of Troy

Re: Quickie: converting r\x2019 to int

2006-04-07 Thread Frank Millman
Robin Haswell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python Python 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01) [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. int(\x2019) 19 Something like that. Except with: int(r\x2019)

OT: job offering in Milan

2006-04-07 Thread Michele Simionato
My current employer is looking for a senior system administrator/programmer with good Python expertise. Notice that the job is in Milan, Italy and that we do not consider remote work. You can mail your CV and/or ask questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can say this is a nice place to work ;) Here is

Re: Quickie: converting r\x2019 to int

2006-04-07 Thread Serge Orlov
Robin Haswell wrote: Hey guys. This should just be a quickie: I can't figure out how to convert r\x2019 to an int - could someone give me a hand please? int(r'\x2019'.decode('string_escape')) 19 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Best way to process table rows from an RDBMS

2006-04-07 Thread dananrg
I can handle making the connections and running queries, but what's the best way to process table rows returned in Python? What about turning a table definition into an object? Just looking for ways to be efficient, since I know I will be hitting the same external RDBMS from Python and regularly

Re: How can I get the text under the cusor ?

2006-04-07 Thread Fulvio
Alle 00:20, sabato 08 aprile 2006, Bo Yang ha scritto: I want to develop an application to record some of the best words and ideas On linux and KDE desktop is easy as a breathing, by Klipper applet:-) And also no virus prone like windowz. Pls no flame, just a consideration. F --

Re: Unicode, command-line and idle

2006-04-07 Thread Kent Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin v. Löwis wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This works if I use the console but gives the following error if I use IDLE: Traceback (most recent call last): File C:\test.py, line 4, in ? text2 = unicode(raw_input(), sys.stdin.encoding) AttributeError:

passing argument to script

2006-04-07 Thread eight02645999
hi if i have a string like this ABCE-123456 ABC_DEF_Suggest(abc def ghi).txt that needs to be passed to a python script and i wanted to get the words inside the brackets after i passed this string. I did a re something like thestring = sys.argv[1:] pat = re.compile(r.*\((.*)\)\.txt$) if

Re: passing argument to script

2006-04-07 Thread Daniel Nogradi
hi if i have a string like this ABCE-123456 ABC_DEF_Suggest(abc def ghi).txt that needs to be passed to a python script and i wanted to get the words inside the brackets after i passed this string. I did a re something like thestring = sys.argv[1:] pat = re.compile(r.*\((.*)\)\.txt$)

Re: urllib.urlencode wrongly encoding ± character

2006-04-07 Thread Evren Esat Ozkan
I copied and pasted my code to new file and saved with utf-8 encoding. it produced 00090%C2%B1NO%3A%C2%B1H%C2%B1H%C2%B1H%C2%B1H%C2%B1 Than I added u to decleration and encode it with iso-8859-1 as you wrote and finally it produced proper result. Your reply is so helped and clarify some things

performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread Joachim Worringen
I need to process large lists (in my real application, this is to parse the content of a file). I noticed that the performance to access the individual list elements degrades over runtime. This can be reproduced easily using this code: import time N=10 p=1 A=[] for i in range(N):

Re: OT: job offering in Milan

2006-04-07 Thread Robin Becker
Michele Simionato wrote: .. The Company StatPro, a leader Company in the field of portfolio analytics for the global asset management market, is looking for a Senior Systems/Network Engineering Specialist, who is ready for a new challenge. real pity, I used to do portfolio

Re: Quickie: converting r\x2019 to int

2006-04-07 Thread Robin Haswell
Therefore r'\x2019' is left unchanged, and cannot be converted to an int. Rob, this explains *why* you are getting the above error. It does not explain how to achieve your objective, as you have not specified what it is. If you give more information, one of the resident gurus may be able

Re: performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread bruno at modulix
Joachim Worringen wrote: I need to process large lists (in my real application, this is to parse the content of a file). Then you probably want to use generators instead of lists. The problem with large lists is that they eat a lot of memory - which can result in swapping . I noticed that

Re: Best way to process table rows from an RDBMS

2006-04-07 Thread bruno at modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can handle making the connections and running queries, but what's the best way to process table rows returned in Python? depends on what you want to do with them. What about turning a table definition into an object? Just looking for ways to be efficient, since I

Re: performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread Joachim Worringen
bruno at modulix wrote: Joachim Worringen wrote: I need to process large lists (in my real application, this is to parse the content of a file). Then you probably want to use generators instead of lists. The problem with large lists is that they eat a lot of memory - which can result in

Re: OT: job offering in Milan

2006-04-07 Thread Michele Simionato
Robin Becker wrote: Michele Simionato wrote: .. The Company StatPro, a leader Company in the field of portfolio analytics for the global asset management market, is looking for a Senior Systems/Network Engineering Specialist, who is ready for a new challenge. real pity, I

Re: performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Otten
Joachim Worringen wrote: I need to process large lists (in my real application, this is to parse the content of a file). I noticed that the performance to access the individual list elements degrades over runtime. This can be reproduced easily using this code: import time N=10

ImageDraw line inconsistent ? (repost)

2006-04-07 Thread alexandre_irrthum
Hi there, Sorry to repost this, but I didn't get any answer one month ago. In essence, it seems that the ImageDraw line function draws lines one pixel shorter in some circumstances. This could be very annoying for some applications where precise geometry does matter. Below I test this function

how convert \\xd6\\xd0\\xb9\\xfa into \xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa

2006-04-07 Thread ygao
in python dd = \\xd6\\xd0\\xb9\\xfa d = \xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa but how to convert one to other ? thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple string formatting question

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Otten
Steven D'Aprano wrote: I have a sinking feeling I'm missing something really, really simple. I'm looking for a format string similar to '%.3f' except that trailing zeroes are not included. To give some examples: FloatString 1.0 1 1.1 1.1 12.1234

Re: ImageDraw line inconsistent ? (repost)

2006-04-07 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to repost this, but I didn't get any answer one month ago. In essence, it seems that the ImageDraw line function draws lines one pixel shorter in some circumstances. This could be very annoying for some applications where precise geometry does matter.

Characters contain themselves?

2006-04-07 Thread WENDUM Denis 47.76.11 (agent)
While testing recursive algoritms dealing with generic lists I stumbled on infinite loops which were triggered by the fact that (at least for my version of Pyton) characters contain themselves.See session: system prompt% python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 00:38:15) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian

Farther OT: financial analytics (was: OT: job offering in Milan)

2006-04-07 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robin Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . My math skills are now so degraded I have difficulty reading about conic programming using Nesterov's barrier functions etc etc.

Re: how convert \\xd6\\xd0\\xb9\\xfa into \xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa

2006-04-07 Thread Peter Otten
ygao wrote: in python dd = \\xd6\\xd0\\xb9\\xfa d = \xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa but how to convert one to other ? \\xd6\\xd0\\xb9\\xfa.decode(string-escape) '\xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa' \xd6\xd0\xb9\xfa.encode(string-escape) '\\xd6\\xd0\\xb9\\xfa' Peter --

Re: Characters contain themselves?

2006-04-07 Thread Rene Pijlman
WENDUM Denis 47.76.11 (agent): While testing recursive algoritms dealing with generic lists I stumbled on infinite loops which were triggered by the fact that (at least for my version of Pyton) characters contain themselves. No, strings contain characters. And 'a' is a string consisting of one

Re: how to make a generator use the last yielded value when it regains control

2006-04-07 Thread John Salerno
Lonnie Princehouse wrote: Here's my take on the thing. It only prints one term, though. http://www.magicpeacefarm.com/lonnie/code/morris.py.html (a bit too long to post) yikes, scary! :) there was always the hint that using itertools might be helpful, as you guys are doing, but

wxPython Question

2006-04-07 Thread diffuser78
I am learning wxPython for one of my projects. I was wondering if there is drag and drop in any Python IDE like there is Visual Basic where you select an object like command_button and put onto the frame. Is there any help to make life easier in Python. Every help is greatly appreciated, --

Re: Characters contain themselves?

2006-04-07 Thread gry
In fact, not just characters, but strings contain themselves: 'abc' in 'abc' True This is a very nice(i.e. clear and concise) shortcut for: 'the rain in spain stays mainly'.find('rain') != -1 True Which I always found contorted and awkward. Could you be a bit more concrete about your

how you know you're a programming nerd

2006-04-07 Thread John Salerno
So last night I had a dream that me and two other guys needed to get a simple task done in Java. We were staring at the problem in confusion and I kept saying First we have to create a class, then instantiate it, then... etc. etc. They didn't agree with me so we kept arguing back and forth

Re: Characters contain themselves?

2006-04-07 Thread Mark Jackson
Rene Pijlman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WENDUM Denis 47.76.11 (agent): While testing recursive algoritms dealing with generic lists I stumbled on infinite loops which were triggered by the fact that (at least for my version of Pyton) characters contain themselves. No, strings contain

Re: shelve and .bak .dat .dir files

2006-04-07 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Michele Petrazzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sion Arrowsmith wrote: This is a documented behaviour of shelve: [ open(filename) may create files with names based on filename + ext ] (and I fail to understand why it is a problem). Because: 1) I pass a name that, after, I'll pass to another program

Re: how you know you're a programming nerd

2006-04-07 Thread bruno at modulix
John Salerno wrote: So last night I had a dream that me and two other guys needed to get a simple task done in Java. Then s/dream/nightmare/ -- bruno desthuilliers python -c print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')]) --

Re: passing argument to script

2006-04-07 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Works for me. I get abc def ghi using your script on Windows XP and ActiveState Python 2.4.3 rd -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: passing argument to script

2006-04-07 Thread Sion Arrowsmith
Daniel Nogradi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you execute your script from the command line on Linux you need to enclose it in quotation marks otherwise your shell will interfere. So you need to invoke your program as python yourscript.py ABCE-123456 ABC_DEF_Suggest(abc def ghi).txt Same is true

Re: pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-07 Thread skip
Michele I think looking at the occurrences in the standard library only Michele is unfair. In addition, when considering the standard library you need to search the source repository, not just what's installed on your platform. I noticed in your earlier post that you pointed your

Re: wxPython Question

2006-04-07 Thread RunLevelZero
I think you are looking for a drag and drop GUI builder? If so then http://wxglade.sourceforge.net/ -- wxglade is what you need. There are some others but this is what I prefer myself. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ftplib question

2006-04-07 Thread RunLevelZero
Well I am not too familiar with ftplib but I have done some minimal work. Example: try: server=FTP() server.connect('ftp.mcafee.com', 21) except: print Could not connect to server raw_input(Hit Enter to quit:) sys.exit(0) login = server.login('anonymous', '[EMAIL

Re: performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread Alan Franzoni
Joachim Worringen on comp.lang.python said: I use Python 2.3.4 (#1, Sep 3 2004, 12:08:45) [GCC 2.96 2731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)] on linux2 Check Peter Otten's answer, and remember as well that GCC 2.96 can lead to highly strange issues whenever used. -- Alan Franzoni [EMAIL

Re: glob and curly brackets

2006-04-07 Thread RunLevelZero
You just need to literlize them with a forward slash. globber = '/home/zhomer/test/{dir1*,dir2*}/{subdir1,subdir2}' globlist = glob.glob(globber) globber = '/home/zhomer/test/\{dir1*,dir2*\}/\{subdir1,subdir2\}' globlist = glob.glob(globber) See if that works for you. --

Re: performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread Joachim Worringen
Peter Otten wrote: Your timing code is buggy. Change it to Ooops, you're right. Everything is fine now... Thanks. Joachim -- Joachim - reply to joachim at domain ccrl-nece dot de Opinion expressed is personal and does not constitute an opinion or statement of NEC Laboratories. --

Re: performance degradation when looping through lists

2006-04-07 Thread diffuser78
Hi, I wrote a program some days back and I was using lists heavily for performing operations such as pop, remove, append. My list size was around 1024x3 and there were around 20 different objects like this. What I want to ask you is that my program also degraded over a period of time. I cannot

Re: [fcntl]how to lock a file

2006-04-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
marcello wrote: Hello I need to do this: 1 opening a file for writing/appending 2 to lock the file as for writing (i mean: the program that lock can keep writing, all others programs can't ) 3 wtite and close/unlock http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65203 been using

Re: How to search HUGE XML with DOM?

2006-04-07 Thread Magnus Lycka
Ivan Vinogradov wrote: I have not much clue about databases, except that they exist, somewhat complex, and often use proprietary formats for efficiency. Prorietary storage format, but a standardized API... So any points on whether RDBM-based setup would be better would be greatly

Re: wxPython Question

2006-04-07 Thread diffuser78
Can we download wxPython doc as an offline folder because if I dont have internet its difficult to have the access to all the docs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A Lambda Logo Tour

2006-04-07 Thread Alex Hunsley
Xah Lee wrote: A Lambda Logo Tour (and why LISP languages using λ as logo should not be looked upon kindly) Xah Lee, 2002-02 Dear lispers, For the love of Java! Where is the Java in this post? Underwear related off topic trivia: At university we worked out that Y-fronts weren't Y-fronts

Re: Difference in Python and Ruby interactive shells

2006-04-07 Thread Alex Martelli
Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Martelli wrote: Michele Simionato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want this recipe from Michael Hudson: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/160164 automatically upgrade class instances on reload() Note that

FTP

2006-04-07 Thread Arne
Hello! I want to connecto to a ftp server. There I woult like to read the directiroy and getting the filename, file owner and the file size. How can I do this in python and if possible please post the code for it. Thanks! Arne -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

UnicodeDecodeError help please?

2006-04-07 Thread Robin Haswell
Okay I'm getting really frustrated with Python's Unicode handling, I'm trying everything I can think of an I can't escape Unicode(En|De)codeError no matter what I try. Could someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here, so I can hope to throw light on the myriad of similar problems I'm having?

GUI Treeview

2006-04-07 Thread Arne
Hello ! I am looking for a widget with the following properties: - showing the tree file structure/ directory structure - next to each file should be a checkbox - the tree should only show certain files (i. e. only for the looked in user) Maybe you can post me a link. Thanks! Arne --

Re: binding - python

2006-04-07 Thread beta
Hi John, It works. Thank you veyr much. Cheers, Q -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: UnicodeDecodeError help please?

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Kern
Robin Haswell wrote: Okay I'm getting really frustrated with Python's Unicode handling, I'm trying everything I can think of an I can't escape Unicode(En|De)codeError no matter what I try. Have you read any of the documentation about Python's Unicode support? E.g.,

Re: UnicodeDecodeError help please?

2006-04-07 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Robin Haswell wrote: Could someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here, so I can hope to throw light on the myriad of similar problems I'm having? Thanks :-) Python 2.4.1 (#2, May 6 2005, 11:22:24) [GCC 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-2)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for

Why did someone write this?

2006-04-07 Thread Sandra-24
try: exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info() # Do something finally: exc_traceback = None Why the try/finally with setting exc_traceback to None? The python docs didn't give me any clue, and I'm wondering what this person knows that I don't. Thanks, -Sandra --

Re: FTP

2006-04-07 Thread Rene Pijlman
Arne: I want to connecto to a ftp server. There I woult like to read the directiroy and getting the filename, file owner and the file size. How can I do this in python http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ftplib.html -- René Pijlman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: FTP

2006-04-07 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Arne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to connecto to a ftp server. There I woult like to read the directiroy and getting the filename, file owner and the file size. How can I do this in python and if possible please post the code for it. there's an example in the library reference that does

Jpype on RHEL v3

2006-04-07 Thread benchline
I have been trying out jpype for python to java work and love it. It works great on my gentoo box with the java 1.4.2 blackdown sdk. I am now trying it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for access to business intelligence tools (JasperReports, Mondrian, Pentaho, etc) for which we don't have

Re: The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language

2006-04-07 Thread bruno at modulix
Peter Hansen wrote: Mirco Wahab wrote: Hi Ralf So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth to get more attention. No, always take some word that relates to something more or less 'feminine', its about 96% of young males who sit hours on programming over their beloved 'languages' ;-)

win32com

2006-04-07 Thread floris . vannee
Hi, Is it possible to create a com server in python and then access that server using VB .NET, for example using the following code. A very basic com server i found in a tutorial about win32com: class HelloWorld: _reg_clsid_ = {7CC9F362-486D-11D1-BB48-E838A65F} _reg_desc_ = Python

Re: Why did someone write this?

2006-04-07 Thread skip
Sandra try: Sandraexc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info() Sandra# Do something Sandra finally: Sandraexc_traceback = None Sandra Why the try/finally with setting exc_traceback to None? The intent is to decrement the reference count to any objects

Calling Web Services from Python

2006-04-07 Thread Ivan Zuzak
Hello, My Python application calls web services available on the Internet. The web service being called is defined through application user input. The Python built-in library allows access to web services using HTTP protocol, which is not acceptible - generating SOAP messages for arbitrary

Re: UnicodeDecodeError help please?

2006-04-07 Thread Paul Boddie
Robin Haswell wrote: Okay I'm getting really frustrated with Python's Unicode handling, I'm trying everything I can think of an I can't escape Unicode(En|De)codeError no matter what I try. If you follow a few relatively simple rules, the days of Unicode errors will be over. Let's take a look!

Re: Calling Web Services from Python

2006-04-07 Thread John Salerno
Ivan Zuzak wrote: I need a package/tool that generates web service proxies that will do all the low-level HTTP work. (Someting like the WSDL.EXE tool in .NET Framework) The ZSI and SOAPy packages [1] that i found (should) have those functionalities but either have a bug (SOAPy) or either

Re: updated pre-PEP: The create statement

2006-04-07 Thread Steven Bethard
Carl Banks wrote: Steven Bethard wrote: I've updated the PEP based on a number of comments on comp.lang.python. The most updated versions are still at: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/py/pep_create_statement.txt http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/py/pep_create_statement.html In

Re: how you know you're a programming nerd

2006-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Salerno wrote: So last night I had a dream that me and two other guys needed to get a simple task done in Java. We were staring at the problem in confusion and I kept saying First we have to create a class, then instantiate it, then... etc. etc. They didn't agree with me so we kept

Re: UnicodeDecodeError help please?

2006-04-07 Thread Ben C
On 2006-04-07, Robin Haswell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay I'm getting really frustrated with Python's Unicode handling, I'm trying everything I can think of an I can't escape Unicode(En|De)codeError no matter what I try. Could someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here, so I can hope to

Re: Jpype on RHEL v3

2006-04-07 Thread benchline
I found the problem. So if anyone else has it here is the fix. In the documentation distributed with JPype 0.5.1 in the examples/linux directory, there is a file that describes a problem with loading the jvm on linux. So one needs to modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to fix it. I

Newbie wxPython questions.

2006-04-07 Thread nuffnough
I am running through the wxPython guide and docs and extrapolating enough to get confused. BAsed on the tute in the getting started wiki I created a panel that has most of the elements I want; some check boxes and a couple of buttons. The button I have is a simple thing that is supposed to just

Re: how you know you're a programming nerd

2006-04-07 Thread John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Salerno wrote: So last night I had a dream that me and two other guys needed to get a simple task done in Java. We were staring at the problem in confusion and I kept saying First we have to create a class, then instantiate it, then... etc. etc. They didn't agree

Python+GNU/Linux+Oracle 10 g Express Edition+cx_Oracle

2006-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!! I'd like to install Oracle 10 g express edition over Ubuntu to use with Python 2.4. I have installed Ubuntu, Python 2.4 and Oracle database. I think that I have installed correctly cx_Oracle because I have cx_Oracle.so in /usr/share/python2.4/site-packages/ directory. My environment

Re: wxPython Question

2006-04-07 Thread RunLevelZero
Well you will need to download the docs demos and tools and that contains a windows help file that is easily searchable. If you run Linux there is a Gnome tool to run the help file in Linux if you so wish. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

best way to install python modules on linux

2006-04-07 Thread Fabian Braennstroem
Hi, I am pretty new to python and will use it mainly in combination with scientific packages. I am running ubuntu breezy right now and see that some packages are out of date. Do you have any suggestion, how I can get/keep the latest python modules (e.g. scipy, numpy,...) on my ubuntu system? I.e.

os.execvp() is giving me trouble

2006-04-07 Thread Jonathan Crowell
Hi All, Sorry if this is a newbie question. I promise I have RTFMed, though. Here goes: I'm trying to invoke an external program from python. The program is jar.exe, which is part of java. The following is the command I want to send: jar -xvf file1.jar jile2.jar file3.jar os.execvp(file,

Re: glob and curly brackets

2006-04-07 Thread gry
This would indeed be a nice feature. The glob module is only 75 lines of pure python. Perhaps you would like to enhance it? Take a look. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

how to use urllib2 to get a page with a socks 5 proxy?

2006-04-07 Thread Ju Hui
example, the proxy server is :123.123.123.123 and the port is :1080 and the username/password is : user/pass I want to open http://www.google.com how to write this script? thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Screen placement based on screen resolution

2006-04-07 Thread Pat
I am trying to place a dialog in the center of the screen based on a users screen resolution. I can get the width and height of the screen, but I can't seem to use the following: root.geometry('WxH+X+Y') It appears the values for X and Y need to be integers and not a variable like width/2-40

Re: Why did someone write this?

2006-04-07 Thread Benjamin Niemann
Sandra-24 wrote: try: exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info() # Do something finally: exc_traceback = None Why the try/finally with setting exc_traceback to None? The python docs didn't give me any clue, and I'm wondering what this person knows that I don't. You

What does 'repair Python 2.5a1' do?

2006-04-07 Thread Thomas Heller
What does the repair command in the 2.5a1 msi installer do? Apparently it does not replace changed files, although it seems to replace deleted files. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

calculating system clock resolution

2006-04-07 Thread jUrner
Hello all I have the problem of how to calculate the resolution of the system clock. Its now two days of head sratching and still there is nothing more than these few lines on my huge white sheet of paper stiring at me. Lame I know. import time t1 = time.time() while True: t2 = time.time()

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