ANN: org.keyphrene 0.5.1 is now available

2005-06-11 Thread webmaster
org.keyphrene is a Python binding for LibSSH2 and OpenSSL libraries. This toolkit for python featuring the following: SSH2 protocol (SFTP, SCP, SSH terminal ...) HMACs, message digests, ciphers (AES, DES, BlowFish), RSA, DSA, DH,SSL functionality yEnc encoder and decoder ...

ANN: Naja 1.2.3 is now available

2005-06-11 Thread webmaster
Naja is a download manager and a website grabber written in Python/wxPython.You can add some plugins (newsreader, newsgroups grabber, FTP - FTPS - SFTP client,WebDAV client) and take control of your downloads from your office. Naja supports proxy (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP,SOCKS v4a, SOCKSv5), and

ZODB 3.4 final released

2005-06-11 Thread Tim Peters
I'm pleased to announce the release of ZODB 3.4 final. This corresponds to the ZODB that will ship in Zope 2.8. You can download a source tarball or Windows installer from: http://zope.org/Products/ZODB3.4 Note that there are two Windows installers, for Python 2.3 (2.3.5 is recommended)

ANN: SimPy 1.6 released

2005-06-11 Thread kgmuller
We are happy to announce the release of SimPy 1.6. Background: --- SimPy is a process-based discrete-event simulation language based on standard Python and released under the GNU LGPL. It provides the modeller with components of a simulation model. These include processes, for active

Re: anygui,anydb, any opinions?

2005-06-11 Thread Tim Roberts
Renato Ramonda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Roberts ha scritto: wx uses sizers to do the same thing. Same purpose, different philosophy. I find sizers more natural, but people should certainly stick to whatever makes them comfortable. I like sizers too, but in my experience wx apps do not

Re: Mod_python psp import module problem

2005-06-11 Thread grahamd
May be related to this bug: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-12 Where you have: import mod_python.psp change it to: psp = apache.import_module(mod_python.psp) Access the PSP object then as: psp.PSP and not: mod_python.psp.PSP It will happen where somewhere else

Re: Abstract and concrete syntax

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Kern
Terry Reedy wrote: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It seems that relative pythonicity sometimes is also ;-). Ah, the curse of Pythonicity Relativism! What has society come to that it cannot recognize Absolute Pythonicness and Absolute Perlishness? The measure of Pythonicness was

Re: If - Or statements

2005-06-11 Thread tiissa
Patrick Down wrote: What about: if True in [thefile.endswith(x) for x in ('mp3','mp4','ogg','aac','wma')]: That will catch (widely used) file names such as 'tmp3' or 'i_cant_spell_frogg'. ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Any way to not create .pyc files?

2005-06-11 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TH) wrote: TH It looks to me like Python just deleted a read-only file owned by TH root in order to replace it with a new pyc file. Can somebody TH explain that to me?! Isn't that supposed to be impossible? If the directory is writable, you can delete a file

Hiding X windows

2005-06-11 Thread dirk dierickx
All, I'm looking for a way to hide opened windows in X, these windows can be using any widget-set so it will not target gtk, qt, motif, etc directly (I know how to do it in gtk for example, but this will only work for gtk apps ofcourse). Just an easy way to select a certain window and hide it,

Re: Hiding X windows

2005-06-11 Thread Jeff Epler
You may want to use a standalone program to do this. xwit has the ability to iconify a window which can be selected in a variety of ways. http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/X11/Misc/xwit-1.0/man.html There's a direct Python interface to the X protocol in python-xlib. You could re-write

Re: help with sending mail in Program

2005-06-11 Thread Tim Williams
- Original Message - From: Ivan Shevanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 3:32 AM Subject: Re: help with sending mail in Program from smtplib import SMTP def sendToMe(subject, body): me = 'Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]' send(me, me,

Re: Best Web dev language

2005-06-11 Thread Peter Hansen
Jon Slaughter wrote: I'm trying to get into web development for creating a professional web site and I'm confused on which language I should use. I've read some comparisons between the major languages and I was thinking that python might be the way to go for the most powerful and general

Re: Best Web dev language

2005-06-11 Thread Brian
Hi Jon, Yes, there are a variety of tutorials on the Internet that can help you learning how to use Python with the web. Two of the best ones you can get for free by clicking on the link below. 1) http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Writing-CGI-Programs-in-Python/ 2)

Re: Sending mail from 'current user' in Python

2005-06-11 Thread Irmen de Jong
Grig Gheorghiu wrote: I use this function as a platform-independent way of finding out the current user name: def get_username(): if sys.platform == 'win32': return win32api.GetUserName() else: return getpass.getuser() [e:\]python Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30

cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread nephish
Hey there, i have a python cgi script that prints out html just fine in the Opera browser but doesnt print at all under FireFox. weird, eh? i am getting nothing in the apache logs about any error. perhaps its a firefox issue, but i doubt it. any suggestions. simple script here.. --

Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Thomas Lotze
Hi, I'm trying to figure out what is the most pythonic way to interact with a generator. The task I'm trying to accomplish is writing a PDF tokenizer, and I want to implement it as a Python generator. Suppose all the ugly details of toknizing PDF can be handled (such as embedded streams of

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread James Carroll
Try View Source under Firefox, you should see everything that you're printing from your CGI on the server. The server side CGI will do the same thing no matter what browser is requesting the page. Next, take that source and paste into into some app that will look for problems like tags that

Re: Python Developers Handbook

2005-06-11 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], wooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the long lecture on netiquette which I didn't really need. You obviously do need it given your improper quoting and attributions. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ f u cn rd

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread Brian
Yes, I agree that it is best to check the HTML source code of the page that is being generated. The server is obviously generating the code, but the difference here is how the two browsers are interpreting the HTML data. Check the source code for the HTML document. I bet the problem resides

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread nephish
Well, i don't have an app that will automaticlly check a page for errors, unless bluefish will do it, i am not sure. the page it is supposed to print out is a response to a form entry. here is the source from Opera if one of you guys want to look at it. html headtitleCustomer Data/title/head

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread Brian
Bingo, found it! Notice that you accidentally close the document before displaying any information... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: html headtitleCustomer Data/title/head body h1Watkins Crop Consulting/h1 /body /html snip Notice the /body/html tag above. There's the problem! Brian --

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Drazen Gemic
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:41:13 -0500, phil wrote: What experiences have those in the Python community had in these kinds of situations? Ive had lots of experience updating my resume and developing software at home. In Python. Java is a clumsy kludge. And the java environment has

Re: Best Web dev language

2005-06-11 Thread Stefan Nobis
Jon Slaughter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know of any detailed and objective comparisons between the major languages(perl, php, java, javascript, etc...) that might help me get a clearer picture? I don't know of any (really good) comparisions, but anyway here are my opinion: Don't

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], flyingfred0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A small software team (developers, leads and even the manager when he's had time) has been using (wx)Python/PostgreSQL for over 2 years and developed a successful 1.0 release of a client/server product. A marketing/product

Re: Best Web dev language

2005-06-11 Thread D H
Jon Slaughter wrote: I'm trying to get into web development for creating a professional web site and I'm confused on which language I should use. I've read some comparisons between the major languages and I was thinking that python might be the way to go for the most powerful and general

Re: Python Developers Handbook - Mistake done and corrected.

2005-06-11 Thread Maxwell Hammer
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 04:52:12 -0700, wooks wrote: Your understanding of Usenet is that a post has to appeal (for the want of a better word) to the majority of the NG readership. Look over a hundred people took a look (and the hits are steadily going up whether despite or because of this

Re: Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Peter Hansen
Thomas Lotze wrote: I can see two possibilities to do this: either the current file position has to be read from somewhere (say, a mutable object passed to the generator) after each yield, or a new generator needs to be instantiated every time the tokenizer is pointed to a new file position.

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread nephish
Ok, i made a change in the source. now here is the source from Opera, still cant get firefox to work with me. html headtitleCustomer Data/title/head body h1Watkins Crop Consulting/h1 /body 1915 Cherokee br Dalhart, Tx 79022 br 333-5943br H3gandalf/H3 span style='font-weight:

case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread Joe Stevenson
Hi all, I skimmed through the docs for Python, and I did not find anything like a case or switch statement. I assume there is one and that I just missed it. Can someone please point me to the appropriate document, or post an example? I don't relish the idea especially long if-else

Re: Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Thomas Lotze
Peter Hansen wrote: Thomas Lotze wrote: I can see two possibilities to do this: either the current file position has to be read from somewhere (say, a mutable object passed to the generator) after each yield, [...] The third approach, which is certain to be cleanest for this situation, is

Re: case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread deelan
Joe Stevenson wrote: Hi all, I skimmed through the docs for Python, and I did not find anything like a case or switch statement. I assume there is one and that I just missed it. strictly speaking, python does not have a switch stamenent. Why isn't there a switch or case statement in

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread tom
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:57:40 -0700, fuzzylollipop wrote: I was completely serious, he is _NOT_ going to win this one. He has already lost. I have been on both sides of this scenario, the new guys were brought in and will win since they are the new experts from out of town. Not only do I take

RE: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread bruce
i don't know what the original thread is/was... but.. if you are part of an initial project.. get in writing what your role is if you're as a partner, get it in writing... if you're as a hired gun.. get it in writing... if you can't get anything in writing.. then make sure you have your own

Re: Abstract and concrete syntax

2005-06-11 Thread David Baelde
You can do stuff like this: lambda x: x and 2 or 3 lambda x: {True:2,False:3}.get(bool(a)) And by the way, I just noticed that this kind of hack is essentially pushing the control (statement) inside expressions... People should really admit that statements are expressions and stop twist

Re: Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Peter Hansen
Thomas Lotze wrote: Which is, as far as the generator code is concerned, basically the same as passing a mutable object to a (possibly standalone) generator. The object will likely be called self, and the value is stored in an attribute of it. Fair enough, but who cares what the generator code

Dynamic Lists, or...?

2005-06-11 Thread Lorn
I'm trying to figure out a way to create dynamic lists or possibly antother solution for the following problem. I have multiple lines in a text file (every line is the same format) that are iterated over and which need to be compared to previous lines in the file in order to perform some simple

wx ListCtrl with combobox...

2005-06-11 Thread Fabio Pliger
Hi all, i'm working on a very large project using wx 2.5... On one frame i have a wx.lib.mixins.listctrl widget, wich is a listctrl extended with the possibility to edit the columns text entrys Anyone know if it's possible (or if there's a widget...) to have also the possbility to have a

RE: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread tom
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:27:26 -0700, bruce wrote: i don't know what the original thread is/was... but.. if you are part of an initial project.. get in writing what your role is if you're as a partner, get it in writing... if you're as a hired gun.. get it in writing... if you can't get

Re: Dynamic Lists, or...?

2005-06-11 Thread tiissa
Lorn wrote: I'm trying to figure out a way to create dynamic lists or possibly antother solution for the following problem. I have multiple lines in a text file (every line is the same format) that are iterated over and which need to be compared to previous lines in the file in order to

Re: How to overcome automatic cyrillic-to-/hex convert

2005-06-11 Thread Terry Reedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] But when I enter some Bulgarian (actually cyrillic) text as a string, it seems that Python automatically converts it to '\x00..\x00 ' and once converted that way I can't get it back into its original look. The only way to get it right

Re: Any way to not create .pyc files?

2005-06-11 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 11 June 2005 06:14 am, Piet van Oostrum wrote: Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TH) wrote: TH It looks to me like Python just deleted a read-only file owned by TH root in order to replace it with a new pyc file. Can somebody TH explain that to me?! Isn't that supposed to be

Re: case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread Leif K-Brooks
Joe Stevenson wrote: I skimmed through the docs for Python, and I did not find anything like a case or switch statement. I assume there is one and that I just missed it. Can someone please point me to the appropriate document, or post an example? I don't relish the idea especially long

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread nephish
fixed, thanks for all of your help. i am pouring over python texts and the problem is html... duh looking for a more efficient way to jerk all of the hair outta my head. thanks a whole lot. your awesome -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread Philippe C. Martin
I _love_ Python! Leif K-Brooks wrote: Joe Stevenson wrote: I skimmed through the docs for Python, and I did not find anything like a case or switch statement. I assume there is one and that I just missed it. Can someone please point me to the appropriate document, or post an example? I

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Terry Reedy
Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/05/28/ibm-poop-heads which is probably what you meant. Thanks for digging this up. It solidified my understanding of why LAMP. TJR --

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Stephen Kellett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], EP [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes that means) and are going crazy throwing around the Java buzzwords (not to mention XML). Sounds like someone has read about AJAX and decided that is what is next. They probably put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5 thinking the J

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Paul Rubin
Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/2005/05/28/ibm-poop-heads which is probably what you meant. Thanks for digging this up. It solidified my understanding of why LAMP. That article makes a lot of bogus claims and is full of hype. LAMP is a nice way to throw a

What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Philippe C. Martin
I apologize in advance for launching this post but I might get enlightment somehow (PS: I am _very_ agnostic ;-). - 1) I do not consider my intelligence/education above average - 2) I am very pragmatic - 3) I usually move forward when I get the gut feeling I am correct - 4) Most likely because of

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Philippe C. Martin
This is the never ending story of the cyclic (I'm being redundant) life cycle of many companies: RD driven versus Marketing driver. My belief is that none work as the trades do not attempt to reach the same goal: 1) RD should not try to define products 2) Marketing should not try to impose the

Re: Is pyton for me?

2005-06-11 Thread Mike Meyer
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk Job Sluder wrote: I agree with this approach. For me, there has to be a certain level of complexity before I reach for python as a tool. For me as well. In my case, the key question is is this bash script going to be longer than two lines?. If

Re: identifying 64-bit Windows from 2.3.5?

2005-06-11 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=
Steven Knight wrote: Can some Windows-savvy Pythonista point me to some way to distinguish between these two? I would look at the environment variable PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE. On the Win64 machine I use, its value is IA64. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best Web dev language

2005-06-11 Thread Mike Meyer
Jon Slaughter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, can anyone recommend any book or web page that gives an introduction to the method in which one programs web sites? I am not clear on who one, for instance, would use C++ as the language for a web site except by using it to create html... I'm

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Kern
Philippe C. Martin wrote: I apologize in advance for launching this post but I might get enlightment somehow (PS: I am _very_ agnostic ;-). - 1) I do not consider my intelligence/education above average - 2) I am very pragmatic - 3) I usually move forward when I get the gut feeling I am

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=
Philippe C. Martin wrote: I apologize in advance for launching this post but I might get enlightment somehow (PS: I am _very_ agnostic ;-). - 1) I do not consider my intelligence/education above average - 2) I am very pragmatic - 3) I usually move forward when I get the gut feeling I am

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Peter Hansen
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Philippe C. Martin wrote: - 5) I have developed for many years (18) in many different environments, languages, and O/S's (including realtime kernels) . 2. You may not have dealt with a weakly-typed language before. If that is the case, your feeling of something being

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Claudio Grondi
Re: What is different with Python ? from my point of view, to be honest, nothing except mixing a well spiced soup of what was available within other programming languages. I think, that what currently makes a real difference is not the language as such, but the people using it, posting here and

Re: Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Mike Meyer
Thomas Lotze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A related problem is skipping whitespace. Sometimes you don't care about whitespace tokens, sometimes you do. Using generators, you can either set a state variable, say on the object the generator is an attribute of, before each call that requires a

Re: Sending mail from 'current user' in Python

2005-06-11 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
There may have been a reason for the win32 stuff at some pointbut I don't remember and you're right, it does seem like getpass by itself would do the job. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Philippe C. Martin
Thanks , I have gotten many answers already, some not posted. 1) Typing is not the issue - even with RT-Kernels, people use C++ 2) Yes I find dynamic binding very nice 3) ... you didn't give many examples of what you did for the last 18 years (except that that also included RT kernels).

Re: Best Web dev language

2005-06-11 Thread John Roth
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon Slaughter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Someone mentioned that you might require JavaScript on the client side. I recommend against that - people and organizations disable JavaScript for security reasons, and browsers on

BBC RD White Paper on Kamaelia Published (Essentially a framework using communicating python generators)

2005-06-11 Thread Michael Sparks
Hi, I'm posting a link to this since I hope it's of interest to people here :) I've written up the talk I gave at ACCU Python UK on the Kamaelia Framework, and it's been published as a BBC RD White Paper and is available here: * http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp113.shtml Essentially it

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Claudio Grondi
4) Yes I agree a mix (... well spiced soup ...) seems to be the answer but my brain somehow wants to formalize it. Here one further suggestion trying to point out, that it probably can't generally be formalized, because the experience one developes after going through the story of assembly,

Re: cgi script runs under Opera, but not firefox

2005-06-11 Thread nephish
Great Advice, can see that saving me a few headaches thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Philippe C. Martin
I agree '...choice for the very beginners ...': a hundred year ago I was a Pascal TA, and although I like the language, I find/found people stuggled as much with the language as with the algorithm they were supposed to implement. ...mostly variants of Basic... What I truly liked going from Basic

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Drazen Gemic
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:51:02 -0500, tom wrote: The sequence goes like this: 1) When there is little or no money to be made, you start out with an implied status as a partner. This means you work long + extra hours for little pay on the promise that you will be rewarded when/if success comes.

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Tom Anderson
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Philippe C. Martin wrote: Yet for the first time I get (most) of my questions answered by a language I did not know 1 year ago. Amazing, isn't it? Rest assured that you're not alone in feeling this way. I don't know quite why, but python is just makes writing programs

Re: How many threads are too many?

2005-06-11 Thread Aahz
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], rbt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When designing a threaded application, is there a pratical limit on the number of threads that one should use or is there a way to set it up so that the OS handles the number of threads automatically? I am developing on 32-bit x86

Re: anygui,anydb, any opinions?

2005-06-11 Thread Renato Ramonda
Tim Roberts ha scritto: Hardly. Sizers have been the primary method of placing multiple controls in wx for as long as I've been using it, which goes back to 2.3. In fact, it's hard to create a non-trivial wx app WITHOUT using sizers. All of the wx GUIs place controls in nested sets of

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Philippe C. Martin
PS: http://jove.prohosting.com/~zahlman/cpp.html So you're saying they only use perl in Taiwan ;-) Tom Anderson wrote: On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Philippe C. Martin wrote: Yet for the first time I get (most) of my questions answered by a language I did not know 1 year ago. Amazing, isn't

TKinter -- 'Destroy' event executing more than once?

2005-06-11 Thread Christopher Subich
I'm building an application involving both twisted and Tkinter. Since twisted co-opts widget.mainloop() in its reactor.run(), and since it behaves very badly if the application quits without reactor.stop() running, I attach the following function to 'Destroy' in the main window (root = Tk()):

Re: Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Thomas Lotze
Mike Meyer wrote: Yes, such a switch gets the desired behavior as a side effect. Then again, a generator that returns tokens has a desired behavior (advancing to the next token) as a side effect(*). That's certainly true. If you think about these things as the state of the object, rather

Re: Controlling a generator the pythonic way

2005-06-11 Thread Thomas Lotze
Peter Hansen wrote: Fair enough, but who cares what the generator code thinks? It's what the programmer has to deal with that matters, and an object is going to have a cleaner interface than a generator-plus-mutable-object. That's right, and among the choices discussed, the object is the one

Re: case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:15:42 +, Joe Stevenson wrote: Hi all, I skimmed through the docs for Python, and I did not find anything like a case or switch statement. I assume there is one and that I just missed it. Can someone please point me to the appropriate document, or post an

Re: case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread Skip Montanaro
Steven I've never understood why something like: Steven if x = 5: Steven do_this Steven elif x = 6: Steven do_that Steven else: Steven do_something_else Steven is supposed to be bad, but Steven case of: Steven x = 5: Steven

Re: how to operate the excel by python?

2005-06-11 Thread John Machin
Rune Strand wrote: The key is Python for Windows : http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/ See here for an Excel dispatch example: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/325735 When doing such operations, I generally save all the Excel files to CSV files and do

Re: using python from c/c++

2005-06-11 Thread Chris Smith
alexandr == alexandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: alexandr Is it possible to create a library from my python module alexandr that can be used from c/c++ application? http://boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Andrew Dalke
Paul Rubin wrote: That article makes a lot of bogus claims and is full of hype. LAMP is a nice way to throw a small site together without much fuss, sort of like fancy xerox machines are a nice way to print a small-run publication without much fuss. If you want to do something big, you

Re: how to operate the excel by python?

2005-06-11 Thread Rune Strand
John, I wrote a script that autmates the conversion from XLS to CSV. It's easy. But your points are still good. Thanks for making me aware the xlrd module! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dealing with marketing types...

2005-06-11 Thread Paul Rubin
Andrew Dalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question to you is - what is something big? I've not been on any project for which LAMP can't be used, and nor do I expect to be. After all, there's only about 100,000 people in the world who might possibly interested using my software. (Well, the

Re: SMTP Test Rig ( SMTPRIG.PY v1.0 )

2005-06-11 Thread richard
Tim Williams wrote: After a few posts recently, I have put together an SMTP test rig that will receive emails and either store them to a file, write them to a console, or both. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can get it hosted as a utility for general public use?

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Peter Hansen
Philippe C. Martin wrote: too. I'm actually pushing the few CS professors I know to use Python for CS 101. Yet, many issues that a future software engineer should know are mostly hidden by Python (ex: memory management) and that could be detrimental. I think new CS students have more than

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread Roy Smith
Philippe C. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet, many issues that a future software engineer should know are mostly hidden by Python (ex: memory management) and that could be detrimental. I know I'm going out on a limb by asking this, but why do you think future software engineers should know

Re: TKinter -- 'Destroy' event executing more than once?

2005-06-11 Thread jepler
Bindings created on a Toplevel or Tk widget apply to *all* widgets in the same toplevel. So you're seeing a Destroy event for each widget you create... Jeff pgpTtTjOZWFaW.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to receive events (eg. user mouse clicks) from IE

2005-06-11 Thread cal_2pac
Resurrecting an old thread.. It seems that this solution does not return events on objects within frames in webpages eg . if you go to www.andersondirect.com - the page is composed of three frames called as topFrame main and address. Now when I click on say 'Select a Vehicle' which is within main

Re: What is different with Python ?

2005-06-11 Thread John Machin
Roy Smith wrote: Philippe C. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet, many issues that a future software engineer should know are mostly hidden by Python (ex: memory management) and that could be detrimental. I know I'm going out on a limb by asking this, but why do you think future software

What language to manipulate text files

2005-06-11 Thread ross
I want to do some tricky text file manipulation on many files, but have only a little programming knowledge. What are the ideal languages for the following examples? 1. Starting from a certain folder, look in the subfolders for all filenames matching *FOOD*.txt Any files matching in each folder

Re: case/switch statement?

2005-06-11 Thread Terry Hancock
On Saturday 11 June 2005 07:35 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:15:42 +, Joe Stevenson wrote: I skimmed through the docs for Python, and I did not find anything like a case or switch statement. I assume there is one and that I just missed it. Can someone please

Re: TKinter -- 'Destroy' event executing more than once?

2005-06-11 Thread Christopher Subich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bindings created on a Toplevel or Tk widget apply to *all* widgets in the same toplevel. So you're seeing a Destroy event for each widget you create... Oh. :) Is there a way of binding the event just to the window itself, or should I just check that the widget

[ python-Bugs-1218930 ] Parser chokes on big files

2005-06-11 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #1218930, was opened at 2005-06-11 23:59 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=1218930group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of

[ python-Bugs-800432 ] color highlighting not working on EDIT windows

2005-06-11 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #800432, was opened at 2003-09-04 08:03 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kbk You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=800432group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,

[ python-Bugs-775012 ] No syntax hilite on new file until saved as *.py

2005-06-11 Thread SourceForge.net
Bugs item #775012, was opened at 2003-07-21 08:35 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kbk You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=105470aid=775012group_id=5470 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread,