Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte pattern 0x0100. I've tried with this: # start import sys numChars = 0 startCode = 0 count = 0 inputFile = sys.stdin while True: ch =

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte pattern 0x0100. I've tried with this: # start import sys numChars = 0 startCode = 0 count = 0 inputFile = sys.stdin while True: ch =

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Watson
Paul Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to scan a file byte for byte for occurences of the the four byte pattern 0x0100. I've tried with this: # start import sys numChars = 0 startCode = 0

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Watson
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Did you do timings on it vs. mmap? Having to copy the data multiple times to deal with the overlap - thanks to strings being immutable - would seem to be a lose, and makes me wonder

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Watson
Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In today's implementations of Classic Python, yes. In other equally valid implementations of the language, such as Jython, IronPython, or, for all we know, some future implementation of Classic, that may well not be the

Controlling output using print with format string

2005-10-30 Thread Paul Watson
It is clear that just using 'print' with variable names is relatively uncontrollable. However, I thought that using a format string would reign the problem in and give the desired output. Must I resort to sys.stdout.write() to control output? $ python Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jul 19 2005, 14:16:43)

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-30 Thread Paul Watson
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Paul Watson wrote: This is Cyngwin on Windows XP. using cygwin to analyze performance characteristics of portable API:s is a really lousy idea. Ok. So, I agree. That is just what I had at hand. Here are some other numbers to which due diligence has also not been

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Watson
Alex Martelli wrote: ... gc.garbage [__main__.a object at 0x64cf0, __main__.b object at 0x58510] So, no big deal -- run a gc.collect() and parse through gc.garbage for any instances of your wrapper of file class, and you'll find ones that were forgotten as part of a cyclic garbage loop and

Re: Scanning a file

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Watson
Steve Holden wrote: Since everyone needs this, how about building it in such that files which are closed by the runtime, and not user code, are reported or queryable? Perhaps a command line switch to either invoke or suppress reporting them on exit. This is a rather poor substitute from

Re: Scanning a file

2005-11-01 Thread Paul Watson
Paul Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John J. Lee) writes: Closing off this particular one would make it harder to get benefit of non-C implementations of Python, so it has been judged not worth it. I think I agree with that judgement. The right fix is PEP 343. I am sure you are right.

Re: Scanning a file

2005-11-01 Thread Paul Watson
Alex Martelli wrote: Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The runtime knows it is doing it. Please allow the runtime to tell me what it knows it is doing. Thanks. In point oif fact I don't believe the runtime does any such thing (though I must admit I haven't checked the source, so

Installing tkinter with Python 2.4.2 on FC4

2005-11-12 Thread Paul Watson
I cannot yet get tkinter working on 2.4.2. I have installed the tk rpms from FC4. I have checked to see that TKPATH is available in Modules/Setup. How can I verify that I have tcl/tk installed correctly and it is the correct version (8+)? --

Re: Installing tkinter with Python 2.4.2 on FC4

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Watson
Paul Watson wrote: I cannot yet get tkinter working on 2.4.2. I have installed the tk rpms from FC4. I have checked to see that TKPATH is available in Modules/Setup. How can I verify that I have tcl/tk installed correctly and it is the correct version (8+)? Surely, there must

Re: Is Python worth it??

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Watson
Simon Brunning wrote: On 14/11/05, john boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have started out trying to learn Python for my first programming language. I am starting off with the book how to think like a computer scientist. I spend about 4-5 hrs a day trying to learn this stuff. It is certainly no

Re: Newb ?

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Watson
Chad Everett wrote: Hello all, Have a problem here with a challenge from a book I am reading. Any help is much appreciated. I am trying to run a program that asks the user for a statement and then prints it out backwards. this is what I have. It does not print anything out. I assume

Web-based client code execution

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Watson
What are the options? The user to hits a web page, downloads code (Python I hope), execute it, and be able to return the results. It needs to be able to go through standard HTTP so that it could be run from behind a corporate firewall without any other ports being opened. Am I stuck doing an

Re: Web-based client code execution

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Watson
Steve wrote: AJAX works because browsers can execute javascript. I don't know of a browser that can execute python. Basically your stuck with java or javascript because everything else really isn't cross platform. Well, I guess the Grail browser could run Python, but I do not think I can go

Re: Web-based client code execution

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Watson
Kent Johnson wrote: Stephen Kellett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes AJAX works because browsers can execute javascript. I don't know of a browser that can execute python. Basically your stuck with java or javascript because everything else really

Re: Web-based client code execution

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Watson
David Wahler wrote: Steve wrote: AJAX works because browsers can execute javascript. I don't know of a browser that can execute python. Basically your stuck with java or javascript because everything else really isn't cross platform Don't jump to conclusions... http://dwahler.ky/python/

Re: Web-based client code execution

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Watson
John J. Lee wrote: Paul Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What are the options? The user to hits a web page, downloads code (Python I hope), execute it, and be able to return the results. It needs to be able to go through standard HTTP so that it could be run from behind a corporate

Re: Web-based client code execution

2005-11-21 Thread Paul Watson
Robin Becker wrote: Paul Watson wrote: .. -- David This looks interesting, but looks even more fragile than CrackAJAX. http://www.aminus.org/blogs/index.php/phunt/2005/10/06/subway_s_new_ajax_framework All of this comes down to Javascript which will still not allow me

2.4.2 on AIX 4.3 make fails on threading

2005-11-22 Thread Paul Watson
When I try to build 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3, it fails on missing thread objects. I ran ./configure --without-threads --without-gcc. Before using --without-threads I had several .pthread* symbols missing. I do not have to have threading on this build, but it would be helpful if it is possible. The

Re: 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3 make fails on threading

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Watson
Neal Norwitz wrote: Paul Watson wrote: When I try to build 2.4.2 on AIX 4.3, it fails on missing thread objects. I ran ./configure --without-threads --without-gcc. Before using --without-threads I had several .pthread* symbols missing. Perhaps you need to add -lpthread to the link line

2.4.2 on AIX fails compiling _codecs_cn.c

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Watson
Any ideas why ./Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c fails to compile? It appears that the CODEC_STATELESS macro is concatenating 'hz' with a number and text. building '_codecs_cn' extension cc -DNDEBUG -O -I. -I/home/pwatson/src/python/Python-2.4.2/./Include

Re: 2.4.2 on AIX fails compiling _codecs_cn.c

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Watson
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Any ideas why ./Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c fails to compile? It appears that the CODEC_STATELESS macro is concatenating 'hz' with a number and text. More likely, hz is already defined to be 100, then forming 100_encode. It would

Re: 2.4.2 on AIX fails compiling _codecs_cn.c

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Watson
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Any ideas why ./Modules/cjkcodecs/_codecs_cn.c fails to compile? It appears that the CODEC_STATELESS macro is concatenating 'hz' with a number and text. More likely, hz is already defined to be 100, then forming 100_encode. It would

Re: 2.4.2 on AIX fails compiling _codecs_cn.c

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Watson
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Can we #undef _ALL_SOURCE for _codecs_cn.c compilation? Where does _ALL_SOURCE come from? Why is it defined? What is its effect on hz? Regards, Martin Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Can we #undef _ALL_SOURCE for _codecs_cn.c

Re: 2.4.2 on AIX fails compiling _codecs_cn.c

2005-11-24 Thread Paul Watson
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: It appears that _ALL_SOURCE gets defined in the /usr/include/standards.h file. If we could #define _ANSI_C_SOURCE or _POSIX_SOURCE, it appears that it would eleminate _ALL_SOURCE. Ah, ok - this should be easy enough. Python would normally

Re: Which License Should I Use?

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Watson
mojosam wrote: I've been watching the flame war about licenses with some interest. There are many motivations for those who participate in this sector, so disagreements over licenses reflect those agendas. I don't have an agenda, at least not right now. I do plan on writing a few programs.

Re: Writing pins to the RS232

2005-11-26 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to write to the pins of an RS232 without using the serial protocol. The use would be every pin could act to complete a circuit in customized hardware. I could use python to communicate serially to a BASIC stamp or a Javelin stamp and then use the stamp to set

Re: nesting for statements?

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not what you'd call a programmer of any sort, so perhaps this question may seem arcane and result in a plethora of you idiot threads, but here goes: ArcGIS 9.1 has a neat interface with python (2.1-2.4), allowing me to do all sorts of spatial operations within

Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Watson
I need to call some Windows APIs. Is the only way to download ctypes or the win32 interfaces? Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into the standard Python build? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Watson
Neil Hodgson wrote: Paul Watson: Is there any plan to get ctypes batteries into the standard Python build? It is unlikely that ctypes will be included in the standard Python build as it allows unsafe memory access making it much easier to crash Python. Does extending Python

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

2006-01-06 Thread Paul Watson
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: I need to call some Windows APIs. Is the only way to download ctypes or the win32 interfaces? That depends on the specific win32 interface you want to call. Typically, the answer is yes. I have used _winreg and I see winsound in the doc. I need

Re: Viewing Binary Data

2006-01-08 Thread Paul Watson
Cuyler wrote: I would like to display a file in its binary form (1s and 0s), but I'm having no luck... Any thoughts would be most appreciated. If you are on a UNIX system, or on Windows with Cygwin, you can use the 'od' command to dump a file in hex or octal. man od od -Ax

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

2006-01-08 Thread Paul Watson
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Paul Watson wrote: I need to call GetVersionInfo() and handle VERSIONINFO information. I thought that distutils might have something, but I do not see it yet. Any suggestions? You could write this specific API in VB, and then run cscript.exe in a pipe; or you could

Re: Calling foreign functions from Python? ctypes?

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Watson
Neil Hodgson wrote: Paul Watson: I cannot find any way to get to GetVersionInfo in VBScript (cscript). Set objFSO = CreateObject(Scripting.FileSystemObject) Wscript.Echo objFSO.GetFileVersion(c:\bin\SciLexer.dll) Many thanks. Just what I needed. (Short of ctypes.) Thank you

Re: return values of os.system() on win32

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Watson
rbt wrote: Is it safe to say that any value returned by os.system() other than 0 is an error? if os.system('winver') != 0: print Winver failed! else: print Winver Worked. Thanks! What are you really seeking to do? Are you wanting to detect if your code is running on a

Re: Creating shortcuts?

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Watson
Ron Griswold wrote: Hi Dennis, Yes, I am equating a unix soft link to a windows shortcut. Both act as links to a file or directory. I have found that windows shortcuts do appear in linux dir listings with a .lnk extension, however the file is meaningless to linux. On the other hand, a

Re: How to get Windows system information?

2006-01-13 Thread Paul Watson
Martin P. Hellwig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know how to get the: Free hard disk space Amount of CPU load and Amount of RAM used on windows? I am making an artificial intelligence program that has moods based on how much stress the system is under, based

zlib decode fails with -5

2005-09-27 Thread Paul Watson
Traceback (most recent call last): File string, line 20, in ? File c:\Python24\lib\encodings\zlib_codec.py, line 43, in zlib_decode output = zlib.decompress(input) zlib.error: Error -5 while decompressing data The -5 error appears to be a Z_BUF_ERROR from looking at the manual at

Re: zlib decode fails with -5

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Watson
ncf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't mean this harshly, but have you tried recompressing the data to see if you may have had a bad data set? If it still fails, then I'm really not sure why/how zlib decides that there isn't enough room in the output buffer.

Re: piping out binaries properly

2005-10-12 Thread Paul Watson
Andy Leszczynski leszczynscyATnospam.yahoo.com.nospam wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have got following program: import sys import binascii from string import * sys.stdout.write(binascii.unhexlify(41410A4141)) when I run under Unix I got: $ python u.py u.bin $ od -t x1

Re: Installing Python at Work

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Watson
Nikola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm currently learning Python for my own use. I'm considering installing it on a work laptop, knowing that it is non-licensed, distributable software. However, does it access communication ports? I know the company checks

Using print with format to stdout generates unwanted space

2005-06-19 Thread Paul Watson
#!/usr/bin/env python # Using a print statement to stdout results in an # unwanted space character being generated at the # end of each print output. Same results on # DOS/Windows and AIX. # # I need precise control over the bytes that are # produced. Why is print doing this? #

Re: Using print with format to stdout generates unwanted space

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Watson
output was not a print statement. As you can see a space char is written and is correct as per the docs. Rgds Tim Paul Watson wrote: #!/usr/bin/env python # Using a print statement to stdout results in an # unwanted space character being generated at the # end of each print output

Re: Want to learn a language - is Python right?

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Watson
Aziz McTang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Paul, Thanks for your input. As usual, hearing some answers helps formulate the question... What I'm looking for is more to learn one good, comprehensive programming language well than several approximately on an ad

Re: Couple functions I need, assuming they exist?

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Watson
Charles Krug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The target of the problems (my daughter) would prefer that the thousands be delimited. Is there a string function that does this? Be sure to use the locale approach and avoid rolling your own. --

Re: os.system(cmd) isn't working

2005-06-23 Thread Paul Watson
Gregory Piñero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys, I'm trying to run this statement: os.system(r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe' + ' www.blendedtechnologies.com') The goal is to have firefox open to that website. When I type r'C:\Program

Re: Enumerate registered codecs

2005-07-31 Thread Paul Watson
John Machin wrote: Paul Watson wrote: I see the list of standard encodings in Python 2.4.1 documentation section 4.9.2. Is there a method to enumerate the registered codecs at runtime? This has been asked before, within the last couple of months AFAIR. Use Google to search for codec(s

Re: python ETL

2005-08-01 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My company is involved in the development of many data marts and data-warehouses, and I currently looking into migrating our old set of tools (written in Korn) to a new, more dynamic and robust one. I am looking into python as I have heard that it could be a good

Re: 2.3 or 2.4 on linux

2005-08-04 Thread Paul Watson
Sells, Fred wrote: We are in the process of standardizing ~10 Linux servers on Lineox 4.x, which is a variant of RedHat Enterprise server I'm told. Part of that process is to standardize python. The baseline install includes python 2.3 which is adequate, but I would like to standardize on

Re: newbie question; output from simple print statement

2005-08-05 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone explain to me the output of this simple script? I wonder why ['test1.txt'] is printed before files in c:\, and also why None shows up? in file test.py: def main(): print files in c:\ :%s % ListFiles(c:\) def

Re: about coding

2005-08-11 Thread Paul Watson
cantabile wrote: Hi, being a newbie in Python, I'm a bit lost with the '-*- coding : -*-' directive. I'm using an accented characters language. Some of them are correctly displayed while one doesn't. I've written : -*- coding: utf-8 -*- Is this wrong ? Where can I find a pratical

Re: Spaces and tabs again

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Watson
Dan Sommers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:04:04 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Aug 2005 13:18:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Are you kidding? You are going to MANDATE spaces? After the backlash, Python 4.0 will ban

Re: Spaces and tabs again

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Watson
John Machin wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Dan Sommers wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:04:04 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13 Aug 2005 13:18:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Are you kidding? You are going to MANDATE spaces

Using for in one-liner

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Watson
Can a for loop be used in a one-liner? What am I missing? $ python -c import sys;print ''.join([line for line in sys.stdin.readlines()]), now is the time now is the time $ python -c import sys;for line in sys.stdin.readlines(): print line, File string, line 1 import sys;for line in

Re: Using for in one-liner

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to me it seems the ',' is superfluous, this works: python -c import sys;print ''.join([l for l in sys.stdin.readlines()]) in 2.4.1 - with the comma it works as well but it looks weird, as if you want to un-pack a tuple. Without the comma, an additional newline is

Re: Using for in one-liner

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Watson
BranoZ wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Can a for loop be used in a one-liner? What am I missing? $ python -c import sys;for i in range(5): print i, File string, line 1 import sys;for i in range(5): print i, ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax This was tricky.. python -c

Re: Using for in one-liner

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Watson
BranoZ wrote: In man python Here command may contain multiple statements separated by newlines. Leading whitespace is significant in Python statements! In man bash search for \n (/\\n) Frankly, I know bash for 10 years, but this has surprised me, too. BranoZ Using a '$' before the

Re: get the return code when piping something to a python script?

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Watson
mhenry1384 wrote: On WinXP, I am doing this nant.exe | python MyFilter.py This command always returns 0 (success) because MyFilter.py always succeeds. MyFilter.py looks like this while 1: line = sys.stdin.readline() if not line: break ...

Re: String functions deprication

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Watson
steve morin wrote: http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/node110.html These methods are being deprecated. What are they being replaced with? Does anyone know? Steve It might be helpful to compare the following lists. Python 2.1 (#1, May 23 2003, 11:43:56) [C] on aix4 Type copyright,

Re: String functions deprication

2005-08-16 Thread Paul Watson
Sorry, the previous post was based on Python 2.1. That is probably not of much interest. How about 2.4.1? Python 2.4.1 (#1, Jul 19 2005, 14:16:43) [GCC 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. import string dir(string)

Re: List of strings

2005-08-17 Thread Paul Watson
Mohammed Altaj wrote: Hi All Thanks for your reply , what i am doing is , i am reading from file , using readlines() , I would like to check in these lines , if there is line belong to another one or not , if it is , then i would like to delete it ['0132442\n', '13\n', '24\n'] '13'

Python port on Palm Treo?

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Watson
Has anyone done or worked on a port of Python to the Treo? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Proposal: add sys to __builtins__

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Watson
Steve Holden wrote: Rick Wotnaz wrote: Michael Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: What would people think about adding sys to __builtins__ so that import sys is no longer necessary? This is something I must add to every script I write that's not a one-liner since

Re: Removing a substring from a string

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Watson
ankit wrote: Hi All, I want to remove a substring from a string without any additional tabs/returns in the output string. Is there any method availaible or how can I do it. For the ease, I am giving an example: [code] mainstr = ${if:isLeaf} Dont include this isLeaf=True ${/if:isLeaf}

Re: Need Help with Python/C API

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Watson
pycraze wrote: Hi guys, I Need to know how do i create a dictionary... eg: n = pali_hash n={} n={1:{ } } - i need to know how to make a key of a dictionary, to a dictionary using Python/C API's It looks like you are asking how to create a dictionary (hash). If it is more than

Re: Using non-ascii symbols

2006-01-24 Thread Paul Watson
Christoph Zwerschke wrote: On the page http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3%2e0Suggestions I noticed an interesting suggestion: These operators ≤ ≥ ≠ should be added to the language having the following meaning: = = != this should improve readibility (and make language more

Re: ftp: get list of files

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Watson
Lawrence Oluyede wrote: eels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With yyy = ftp.retrlines('LIST') I get this listing at stdout, but I need this information at variable yyy. How can I resolve this problem? As written in the doc retrlines has an optional parameter (a callback function) called on

Re: How to script DOS app that doesn't use stdout

2005-03-06 Thread Paul Watson
Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a DOS console application I am trying to script (in Python), but it doesn't seem to use stdout or stderr... For example, if I redirect output to a file (cmd file.txt), the output still appears on screen. Similarly,

Re: error sending path to Win OS

2005-03-13 Thread Paul Watson
Earl Eiland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] os.path.getsize(Inputdirectory + '\\' + Filename) works, but os.path.getsize(Inputdirectory + '\\' + Filename.split('.') + '.ext') Fails reporting no such file or directory InputDirectory\\Filename.ext.

Re: Adapting code to multiple platforms

2005-03-13 Thread Paul Watson
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Simon John wrote: If you're using a GUI, then that may help you decode the platform too - for example wxPython has wx.Platform, there's also platform.platform() , sys.platform and os.name You could try import win32api

Re: Jython Phone Interview Advice

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Watson
George Jempty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm undergoing a phone interview for a Jython job today. Anybody have practical advice for me? I haven't worked with Python in years, but I have been working with Java in the meantime (resume at

Re: Shell Commands in Python Code

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Watson
Sara Khalatbari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are a lot of commands that I need to use in my code I don't know how to do it Is there a way to use shell commands in Python code? Yes, there are many popen() forms that you may wish to investigate. Below is a

Re: newbie file/DB processing

2005-05-19 Thread Paul Watson
len [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am an old time cobol programmer from the IBM 360/370 eria and this ingrained idea of file processing using file definition (FD's) I believe is causing me problems because I think python requires a different way of looking at

SOAP strategies

2008-02-16 Thread Paul Watson
What are the reasonable current day choices and best bets for the future when doing SOAP programming in Python? SOAP batteries do not appear to be in the standard Python distribution. Most of the SOAP related information I have been able to find on the web is from 2001-2002. I am not sure if

Re: SOAP strategies

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Watson
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:59 -0600, Paul Watson wrote: What are the reasonable current day choices and best bets for the future when doing SOAP programming in Python? SOAP batteries do not appear to be in the standard Python distribution. Most of the SOAP related information I have been

Re: SOAP strategies

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Watson
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:01 -0800, Paul Boddie wrote: On 19 Feb, 16:59, Paul Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I offended? My apologies if I have. I thought I showed that I had done some homework and used Google and did the other things to show that I was willing to put forth some

Re: SOAP strategies

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Watson
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:01 -0800, Paul Boddie wrote: On 19 Feb, 16:59, Paul Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I offended? My apologies if I have. I thought I showed that I had done some homework and used Google and did the other things to show that I was willing to put forth some

Re: any library for SOAP 1.1 or SOAP 1.2?

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Watson
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:52 +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: Hi, I wish to know which python library is popular for SOAP related programming, especially for sending SOAP requests and parsing SOAP responses. I can't find any such library in the Python standard library but I could find ZSI and

SOAP access to SharePoint

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Watson
Has anyone successfully accessed a Microsoft SharePoint WSS using Python? No, not IronPython. I need for this to be able to run on all machines the customer might choose. Which libs are you using? ZSI, SOAPpy, soaplib, ??? http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebServices --

Tkinter book on current versions

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Watson
Has anyone tried the Grayson book, Python and Tkinter Programming, with a recent version of Python? The first example code (calculator) generates a single row of buttons. Perhaps I have not applied the errata correctly. Has anyone been successful? I am using: Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 1

Re: newbie: precision question

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Watson
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 04:12 +0100, Lada Kugis wrote: I'm a newbie learning python, so forgive for, what may seem to some, like a stupid question. I understand the basic integer and fp type, but what I'm having a little trouble are the long type and infinite precision type. Also, when I do

Re: Tkinter book on current versions

2009-03-22 Thread Paul Watson
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 08:10 -0700, W. eWatson wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Has anyone tried the Grayson book, Python and Tkinter Programming, with a recent version of Python? The first example code (calculator) generates a single row of buttons. Perhaps I have not applied the errata

Re: Using python 3 for scripting?

2009-03-22 Thread Paul Watson
On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 17:00 +, Timo Myyrä wrote: Ok, I think I'll stick with the 2.6 then. I recall it gave warnings about things that are deprecated in 3.0 so it will make porting the scripts to 3.0 easier. I might try 3.0 once I know what kind of scripts are needed. Yes. Develop

llvm vs. parrot

2009-04-11 Thread Paul Watson
Is Parrot out of favor these days? It appears that Google is going to use llvm. http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Is pwm Python MegaWidgets viable?

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Watson
Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in 2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead. Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps? Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base Python distro? A requirement here is to not

Re: Is pwm Python MegaWidgets viable?

2006-04-02 Thread Paul Watson
gregarican wrote: Paul Watson wrote: Does pwm run well on Python 2.4? The last release appears to be in 2003. The Manning discussion forum is dead. Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps? Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base Python

Re: best small database?

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Watson
David Isaac wrote: I have no experience with database applications. This database will likely hold only a few hundred items, including both textfiles and binary files. I would like a pure Python solution to the extent reasonable. Suggestions? Thank you, Alan Isaac If you want really

PyXML not supported, what to use next?

2006-09-30 Thread Paul Watson
It would appear that xml.dom.minidom or xml.sax.* might be the best thing to use since PyXML is going without support. Best of all it is included in the base Python distribution, so no addition hunting required. Is this right thinking? Is there a better solution? --

Re: codecs - where are those on windows?

2006-10-30 Thread Paul Watson
GHUM wrote: I stumbled apon a paragraph in python-dev about reducing the size of Python for an embedded device: In my experience, the biggest gain can be obtained by dropping the rarely-used CJK codecs (for Asian languages). That should sum up to almost 800K (uncompressed), IIRC.

Re: newbie: minidom

2006-11-11 Thread Paul Watson
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Danny Scalenotti wrote: I'm not able to get out of this ... from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplementation impl = getDOMImplementation() // default UTF-8 doc = impl.createDocument(None, test,None) root = doc.documentElement root.setAttribute('myattrib', '5')

Re: installing pyodbc

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Watson
timw.google wrote: I just downloaded the pyodbc source to try and install on my Linux FC3 box. I see that there is a setup.py file, but when I try to do a 'python setup.py build' (or just 'python setup.py') I get Traceback (most recent call last): File setup.py, line 27, in ?

Re: finding IP address of computer

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Watson
DarkBlue wrote: Chris wrote: How do I find and print to screen the IP address of the computer my python program is working on? def readip(): import re, urllib f = urllib.urlopen('http://checkip.dyndns.org') s = f.read() m = re.search('([\d]*\.[\d]*\.[\d]*\.[\d]*)', s) return

Re: to thine own SELF be true...

2006-05-05 Thread Paul Watson
Michael Ekstrand wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:08:24PM +, Mark Harrison wrote: Is there a way to get rid of those the self. references, or is this just something I need to get my brain to accept? It's pretty much just something you'll need to get your brain to accept. You can

Re: ooopy: newbie cannot get basic functionality to work

2006-12-09 Thread Paul Watson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution -- importing chunks of ASCII data dumps from a point-of-sale system into an openoffice.org spreadsheet. What a great chance

Re: how to determine Operating System in Use?

2006-12-13 Thread Paul Watson
Ian F. Hood wrote: Hi In typically windows environments I have used: if 'Windows' in os.environ['OS']... to prove it, but now I need to properly support different environments. To do so I must accurately determine what system the python instance is running on (linux, win, mac, etc). Is

Re: convert from date string to epoch

2006-12-15 Thread Paul Watson
Stefan Antonelli wrote: Hi, i have to convert several timestamps. The given format, eg -mm-dd hh:mm:ss has to be converted to an epoch string. Is there any proper way to do this? If not, i have to split the given string and resolve this by a calculation? Thanks for help.

Re: Help with small program

2006-12-24 Thread Paul Watson
smartbei wrote: Felix Benner wrote: smartbei schrieb: Hello, I am a newbie with python, though I am having a lot of fun using it. Here is one of the excersizes I am trying to complete: the program is supposed to find the coin combination so that with 10 coins you can reach a certain amoung,

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