Memory Issue

2008-02-17 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Afternoon Guys, I've got what I would consider to be a strange memory leak within an application I've been working on. When the application is running the consumed system memory creeps up slowly, getting higher and higher. However, when looking at 'top' to display the memory allocation for

Last 4 Letters of String

2008-02-21 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for a function which will give me the last 4 characters of a given string. I'm sure it's a very simple task but I couldn't find anything of it. Any ideas? Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Logging to HTTP or File

2008-02-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I'm after some advice on the best way to handle a logging job. Essentially I have data which I'm looking to log to a webservice, it would make good sense I think to use something like the HTTP handler for the python logging API. The problem comes when the application isn't

Strange Thread Issue

2007-06-23 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm having an issue with a thread which I've not come across before and it has be baffled. The thread doesn't really do a lot, it simple contains a popen command to run something from cmd, now then i trigger the thread form my main application using the .start() method nothing

Zip File Woes

2007-06-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm having a MASSIVE headache today with zip files, I had it working a while ago but it all seems to have stopped in the past 30 minutes and I can't figure out why. I'm simply trying to write a function that will unzip a file, simple as that. I've currently got this code:

RE: Zip File Woes

2007-06-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
. Thanks guys, Rob From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Sent: 27 June 2007 15:10 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Zip File Woes Hello Guys, I'm having a MASSIVE headache today with zip files, I had it working a while ago

Threads Dying?

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've got an application that seems to be a little bit unstable and freezes quite a bit, and I'm suspecting it's something in one of my threads that's causing the problem, when does a thread die? And how can I be sure that its dyeing when its mean to be? Thanks guys, Rob --

XML Parsing Help,

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I'm looking for some help with XML parsing, I've been playing around with this over the past few days and the only solution I can come up with seems to be a little slow and also leaves what I think is a memory leak in my application, which causes all kinds of problems. I have

Application Crashing

2007-06-29 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I find my application is freezing/crashing every now and then and it becoming a bit of a frustration, so this morning I sat down to try and locate the problem. After doing some debugging I think I've found the line of code that causes my problem. Print 'Read Results' New =

DatePart From String

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have a date/time as a string which looks like this: 2007-02-01 00:00:00 I'm trying to get my hands on the different date parts of that string in the following formats: Time Only: 00:00:00 Day As Number: 01 Month As Number: 02 Day As Word: Monday I've tried using

RE: DatePart From String

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
@python.org Subject: Re: DatePart From String Robert Rawlins - Think Blue robert.rawlins at thinkbluemedia.co.uk writes: I’ve tried using the time.strptime() function without much success so thought I’d come and ask your advice. How exactly does it not work?? This works for me: from time

POpen - Wait For Process To Complete

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello guys, Quite a simple one I'm hoping. I've got a process that I run using popen which writes to a file, I'm then going to read the file and parse its contents. However, getting the application to wait until the process is complete and finished writing before it reads and parses the file

Which Python Version

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, Is there a command I can run to confirm which version of python I'm running? Another thing I've always wondered, should i be running my applications using './MyFile.py' or 'Python MyFile.Py' what are the benefits of each method? One thing I have noticed is that when I used

Which Python Version

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, Is there a command I can run to confirm which version of python I'm running? Another thing I've always wondered, should i be running my applications using './MyFile.py' or 'Python MyFile.Py' what are the benefits of each method? One thing I have noticed is that when I used

RE: Which Python Version

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Golden Sent: 04 July 2007 11:36 Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Which Python Version Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Is there a command I can run to confirm which version of python I'm running? From outside Python

Which Python Version

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, Is there a command I can run to confirm which version of python I'm running? Another thing I've always wondered, should i be running my applications using './MyFile.py' or 'Python MyFile.Py' what are the benefits of each method? One thing I have noticed is that when I used

Which Python Version

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, Is there a command I can run to confirm which version of python I'm running? Another thing I've always wondered, should i be running my applications using './MyFile.py' or 'Python MyFile.Py' what are the benefits of each method? One thing I have noticed is that when I used

Which Python Version

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, Is there a command I can run to confirm which version of python I'm running? Another thing I've always wondered, should i be running my applications using './MyFile.py' or 'Python MyFile.Py' what are the benefits of each method? One thing I have noticed is that when I used

GObject and Python 2.5

2007-07-04 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, Firstly I should apologise for all the mails that keep landing on the list, my SMTP server (supplied by my ISP) seems to be playing silly buggers and sending multiples. I've just installed Python 2.5 on my Debian system and I'm trying to run my application and I get

Parsing Help

2007-07-10 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for some help building a function which can parse some XML for me using ElementTree. The document is of a very consistent format and I've copied an example of the document below. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 ? record attribute id=0x

Time A Script

2007-07-11 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, What's the best way to time how long it takes a script to run, from top to bottom and then have it print that execution time at the end? Thanks guys, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Launch One Application From Another

2007-07-12 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for the best method to launch one Python application from another? Is something like sub process going to be my best bet? Or is there something more specific for launching one python app from another? Thanks guys, Rob --

RE: Dict Help

2007-07-15 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Thanks Gabriel, That all works a charm, Iteration on this isn’t important for me so the SET will work much better I think, I had read about them before but have never used them, I'm glad to see it works so simply. Thanks, Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Access Object From 2 Applications or Fix Scheduler

2007-07-15 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have two applications which I need to get talking and sharing an object, what's the best way to do this? Basically my first application parses an XML document into a bunch of lists and tuples etc, and I need to access the data in these lists and tuples from my second application.

RE: Access Object From 2 Applications or Fix Scheduler

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik van Rooyen Sent: 16 July 2007 07:29 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Access Object From 2 Applications or Fix Scheduler Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Guys, I have two applications which I need to get

RE: Access Object From 2 Applications or Fix Scheduler

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hendrik van Rooyen Sent: 16 July 2007 07:29 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Access Object From 2 Applications or Fix Scheduler Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Guys, I have two applications which

RE: Dict Help

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
, Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Sent: 15 July 2007 20:47 To: 'Gabriel Genellina'; python-list@python.org Subject: RE: Dict Help Thanks Gabriel, That all works a charm, Iteration on this isn’t important for me

Subprocess Poll() to sport Application Crash

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have an application which launches a sub-process using the sub process/Popen module, which seems to work great. However on occasion the launched process will crash, it doesn't appear to full terminate though as when I run a 'top' command from the Linux system the process is still

Subprocess Poll

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have an application which launches a sub-process using the sub process/Popen module, which seems to work great. However on occasion the launched process will crash, it doesn't appear to full terminate though as when I run a 'top' command from the Linux system the process is still

Copy List

2007-07-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, What's the best way to create a copy of a list? I've seen several method and I'm not sure what to use. This will be in a class and one method creates a list which I then want to move to the self scope, like so: __Init__(self): Self.myList = []

Log Memory Usage

2007-07-19 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have an embedded application with a suspected memory leak which I'm trying to confirm. You see, the application seems to crash unexpectedly and when looking at the resource consumption after the crash system memory has crept up to nearly 100%. However this takes quite a long

DateTime Differance

2007-07-20 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've used the eGenix date time module to create two date time objects which I'm now looking to compare like so: If date 1 is more than 5 minutes older than date 2: Do something here... After reading through the egenix documentation I'm still a little

File Handling TRY/EXCEPT

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for some advice on how best to handle file read/write errors with try/except as i'm a little vague on this, I have a small memory leak in my app and I'm starting to think its generated by my log file write. For an example of the function look below. def

RE: File Handling TRY/EXCEPT

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Handling TRY/EXCEPT Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Guys, I'm looking for some advice on how best to handle file read/write errors with try/except as i'm a little vague on this, I have a small memory leak in my app and I'm starting to think its generated by my log file write

RE: Replacing _xmlplus.dom.minidom with xml.dom.minidom

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Just as a heads up, minidom is pretty inefficient and difficult to work with too. On someone else's advice I switched over to ElementTree and have been really pleased with the results, its much simpler to work with and more efficient too. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Devloper Wanted For Debugging / Optimizing

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I've been writing (with your help) a small application over the past couple of months but I'm really struggling to iron out all of the creases and its seems to spring a few memory leaks that I'm unable to find and plug. It's only a small app, around 500 lines of code I would

Launching App

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for the best method to launch my python app when my Linux system boots up. At the moment I just have an entry like this in my rc.local file: CD /myfolder/anotherfolder ./myapp.py Is this the best way to do this? Or is there a better way? I feel like a bit of a

Logging Help

2008-01-02 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm having a little trouble modifying my logging so that the log files are rotated. I'm using the standard python logging module and can find some decent documentation on how to create and add a rotatingFileHandler to my logger but I've been unable to find out how to disable the

RE: Get Available Functions

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Rawlins - Think Blue Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Get Available Functions I'm working with a python module which isn't part of the core Python API and it also isn't very documented or supported, is there any way that I can easily dump/view the available classes and methods within

Get Available Functions

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm working with a python module which isn't part of the core Python API and it also isn't very documented or supported, is there any way that I can easily dump/view the available classes and methods within the package from within python? Thanks guys, Rob --

IoC and MVC Frameworks

2008-02-01 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've been working on a little pet project for a while now, using it as a learning exercise for Python and its starting to grow nicely, I'm now looking into refactoring it a little in a more OO fashion and I've always been a real fan of design patterns and all those fun kind of

Subprocess Running Slowly

2007-10-12 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for a little advice on spawning a sub process to run a command line application for transferring a file over Bluetooth. Now the spawned process runs from start to finish exactly as I would expect it too, however its very slow. Now the main reason this is so odd, is

Control Log File Size

2007-10-19 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I've got an application running on linux which writes log files using the python logging module. I'm looking for some help and advice to cap the size which the file will grow too, something reasonably like 2Mb would be great. What is the best way to handle this kind of thing?

Check File Change Every 10 Seconds

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I've got a requirement to check a file for a change every 10 seconds or so, and if the file has been modified since the last time I parsed its content into the application then I need to parse it in again. However, I need this process to not interrupt the rest of my application

RE: Check File Change Every 10 Seconds

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Genellina Sent: 22 October 2007 15:29 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Check File Change Every 10 Seconds En Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:56:52 -0300, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: I've

RE: Check File Change Every 10 Seconds

2007-10-22 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Change Every 10 Seconds Gabriel Genellina wrote: En Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:56:52 -0300, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�: I've got a requirement to check a file for a change every 10 seconds or so, and if the file has been modified since the last time I parsed its

Eclipse Plugins

2007-10-26 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I'm not sure what you IDE you all generally use for your python development. I've been somewhat lazy and always used a plain text editor, however this technique is starting to take its toll, and it's purely been out of laziness not finding myself a decent IDE to develop in. So

Spotting Crashed Application

2007-05-09 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've got an application that I've written, and it sits in an embedded system, from time to time the application will crash, I'm not quite sure what's causing this, but as we test it more and more we'll grasp a better understanding and fix the issues. However, until then I need

Code Explanation

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm currently working on a non-python project, and I'm trying to overcome a task of parsing a text file into a database and/or xml file. I've managed to find a parser example written in python, and I'm hoping to deconstruct the code methodology a bit so I can write it in another

App Leaving 'sh defunct' Everywhere

2007-05-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've got an application that seems to leave 'sh defunct' in my os processes list. I'm running it on Debian, albeit a stripped down embedded version. I'm not sure what the cause of this is, My application starts several threads and also uses popen2.popen3() to run a few CMD

SOAPpy My Class

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I've used SOAPpy in its very basic form for consuming web services on my web server, but I'm now looking to publish a web service from my application. Basically I'm looking to create a public 'proxy' of an object I have in the application. The idea being that my application will

Restart Linux System

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking to restart a Linux system from my python application. What's the best way to achieve this, is there something in the OS module? Thanks, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Shared Memory Space - Accross Apps Network

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've got an application that runs on an embedded system, the application uses a whole bunch or dicts and other data types to store state and other important information. I'm looking to build a small network of these embedded systems, and I'd love to have them all share the same

Minimize Bandwidth

2007-06-08 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I have a python application that hits a web service on a regular basis to post a string of CSV log data and I'm looking to minimize the amount of bandwidth that the application uses to send the log data. Is there any way to encode the string into base64 or something, that I

Binary / SOAPpy

2007-06-08 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have a WebService call which returns an array, the first element in that array is the binary for a zip file, however I'm having trouble writing that binary string into an actual file when it arrives, I've tried the following method. Result = call to the webservice that

SOAP Webservices and Python

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I'm pretty new to the world of Python, but I'm slowly getting my head around things, and on today's agenda I'm looking at consuming SOAP web services. I've got an Adobe ColdFusion application which I've written that publishes the web service that I'm looking to consume, but I'm at

Writing XML Logs

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I'm trying to write an application that will log to an XML file, that'll be later parsed by another application. The proposed log file will look something like this, listing different event elements and then a record for each time that event occurs. ?xml version=1.0

SOAPPY Install Issues

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hi Guys, I've been trying hopelessly -ALL- afternoon to get python-xml and python-soappy working nicely, but for the -LIFE- of me I keep running into the same brick wall over and over. I'm running Debian and I've installed the latest stable builds of Python, Python-XML and Python-SOAPPY

Binary To File

2007-04-12 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, Is there an easy way to take binary data and build it into a file? Generally this will be BLOB data drawn from a database, the data will be for jpg images, I want to take the blob data and build it into a physical .jpg file. Is there a simple function for doing this in python?

Arrays, Got Me Confused

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm struggling to get my head into arrays in python, I've used them plenty in other languages but I'm struggling to find any decent documentation for them in python. I'm looking to build a list of network MAC address's into an array, which will probably be used for logging and

RE: Arrays, Got Me Confused

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
: Arrays, Got Me Confused Michael Bentley wrote: On Apr 13, 2007, at 7:04 AM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: #!/usr/bin/python # Filename: Firewall.py class Firewall: def __init__(self): Self.FireArray = array(c) p = Firewall() print p Throws: Traceback (most

RE: Arrays, Got Me Confused

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
: 13 April 2007 14:03 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Arrays, Got Me Confused Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Guys, Wider fragments of code don't really exists at this moment in time :-D this is just a bit of a 'tester' class for me to get used to the methods. Basically I'm trying

Class Dependancy Injection

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hey again guys, I'm looking to get an answer about dependency injection in python classes, what is the best way to deal with this? For instance, in my application I have a configuration bean which contains all the applications configuration information. Now in one of other classes I need

RE: Class Dependancy Injection

2007-04-13 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Dependancy Injection Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hey again guys, I'm looking to get an answer about dependency injection in python classes, what is the best way to deal with this? For instance, in my application I have a configuration bean which contains all

Signal Handlers

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, Thanks again for all the help you've given me this past week, things are moving briskly and my class library is building nicely and seems to be working well :-D Now, I'm working with an API for another piece of software today, and the API documentation details the signals that

Import From SubFolder

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Chaps, Is it possible to import a module from a subdirectory in my application? I can only seem to get it to import from a single directory, but keeping all my files and classes in the same directory becomes a little sloppy. Thanks, Rob --

Writing Log CSV (Efficiently)

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking to write a Log file which will be CSV based, and there is a good possibility that it'll get quite busy once its up and running, so I'm looking for the most efficient way to achieve it. Whilst I'm sure i could do something like this. myfile =

RE: Writing Log CSV (Efficiently)

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
, they'll come in big fat lumps every now and then. Thanks, Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2007 15:12 To: Dave Borne Cc: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue; python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Writing Log CSV (Efficiently) Dave Python

RE: Writing Log CSV (Efficiently)

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Writing Log CSV (Efficiently) Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: The log at its highest rate of write may be looking at an operation a second I think I can probably type stuff in faster than that if I try :) You probably don't have a performance issue

RE: file resume

2007-04-16 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Do the same again, but change that 'wb' to 'a' for append :-D should sort you out. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of luca72 Sent: 16 April 2007 16:57 To: python-list@python.org Subject: file resume Hello at all: if i have one file

Deleting or Empty a File

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
I'm looking to clear those log files we were discussing earlier chaps, What the best method to do this? Delete the file completely? Or just empty its content? Thanks, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Signals

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, I posted about this the other day but I'm still struggling to get any form of result from it. Basically I have the following piece of code, and according to its API is produces singals when particular events occur, but i have no idea how to list for events, I've tried all sorts of

array{uint32}

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Guys, I have a function that returns a array{uint32}, is there any way to output that to screen in a more user friendly format? At the moment when I print it by itself it appears as [65541L], which isn't much used to anyone. I know this is probably a REALLY dumb question but I'm a little

RE: Signals

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 April 2007 13:43 To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Signals On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:39 +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Chaps, I posted about this the other day but I’m still struggling to get any form

Byte-Array to String

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I have a byte array passed to me by dbus and I'm looking to convert it into a string? Is that possible? Sorry for seeming like a putts with these questions, I'm not used to all these complex data types :-D The byte array looks something like this when printed to screen.

RE: Byte-Array to String

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
] On Behalf Of Tim Golden Sent: 19 April 2007 15:54 Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Byte-Array to String Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: I have a byte array passed to me by dbus and I'm looking to convert it into a string? Is that possible? Sorry for seeming like a putts

RE: Byte-Array to String

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
interested in, I just need to see them all before I know which it is. Thanks again Steve, Rob From: Steven Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 April 2007 16:51 To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Byte-Array to String Robert Rawlins - Think Blue

RE: Byte-Array to String

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
April 2007 14:00 To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: RE: Byte-Array to String On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 09:51 +0100, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Morning Steve, That stuff looks mighty promising, I did play around with the toString() function yesterday

Schedule Task

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I've got a method in my app that I want to run every 20 minutes that the application it running, what's the best way of achieving this? At the moment I'm using this kind of method. import sched import time, sys scheduler = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)

Class Not Auto-Init On Import

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, From my understanding of what I've read, the 'import' is meant to auto Init my class ready for me to access its methods, but it doesn't appear too, I'm having to init them myself before I can access them, like this. import LocationService Location =

Styled Output

2007-04-21 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Chaps, Hope you're all having a good weekend, I'm sure it'll only be the more 'hard core' of you reading this, anyone with any sanity would be out in the sunshine right now. I'm running a program of mine from Linux bash script and it currently outputs status messages to the command prompt,

Minidom Help

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello guys, Not got much experience with working with minidom, but I'm looking to parse this XML and retrieve the 'name' value from the xml. ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? config device nameThink Blue/name class0x1002/class discoverable1/discoverable /device /config I've got

If Dict Contains a particular key

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm Looking to build a quick if/else statement that checks a dictionary for a key like follows. If myDict contains ThisKey: Do this... Else Do that... Thats the best way of doing this? Thanks, Rob --

RE: If Dict Contains a particular key

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
a particular key On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Guys, I'm Looking to build a quick if/else statement that checks a dictionary for a key like follows. If myDict contains ThisKey: Do this... Else Do

If Dict Contains...

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, Looking to build a quick if/else statement that checks a dictionary for a key like follows. If myDict contains ThisKey: Do this... Else Do that... Thats the best way of doing this? Thanks, Rob --

popen2 results

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello guys, I've recently ported my application from bash to python, however there are still a few bash line utilities I -have- to use in the application as there isn't any alternative available to me. In the old days of bash I would have grep'd the output from these commands to determine the

Now()

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm using the following function 'str (now)' to place a date time stamp into a log file, which works fine, however it writes the stamp like this. 2007-04-25 11:06:53.873029 But I need to expel those extra decimal places as they're causing problems with the application that

Scheduler Module Help

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm using the sched module to create a set of functions that run every 10 or 20 minutes whilst the application is running, however it would seem that the moment I run scheduler.run() it prevents any other operations in my application from running, its sits dormant until it runs the

Re-ocurring Events

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Chaps, A bit more of a complex one this time, and I thought I'd get your opinions on the best way to achieve this. Basically I'm looking for a way to describe a re-occurring event, like a calendar event or appointment I guess. I'm likely to use an XML file for the definition of the

RE:: Re-ocurring Events

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Thank you guys for your suggestions. I've been having a look at that launchd stuff from apple but couldn’t really see how that applies to my requirements. I've been putting some serious thought into how this should work as its essentially the final part of the puzzle for my application, I'll

RE: : Re-ocurring Events

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Sent: 27 April 2007 08:24 To: python-list@python.org Subject: RE:: Re-ocurring Events Thank you guys for your suggestions. I've been having a look at that launchd stuff from apple but couldn’t really see how that applies to my requirements. I've

RE: Re-ocurring Events

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
- From: Laurent Pointal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 April 2007 09:49 To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Subject: Re: Re-ocurring Events Robert Rawlins - Think Blue a écrit : Thank you guys for your suggestions. I've been having a look at that launchd stuff from apple but couldn’t really

RE: Re-ocurring Events

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Rawlins - Think Blue Sent: 27 April 2007 09:55 To: 'Laurent Pointal' Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: RE: Re-ocurring Events Thanks for getting back to me Laurent. I've now made some pretty tidy progress on this and -think- it's going

RE: what python technology for my app?

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Just thought I'd make a little suggestion about this, I don’t know how strict you want to be with the web development side of things, but I'm a web developer by trade and have recently started using python for my non-web type applications. If you're looking for a web based server side solution,

RE: Re-ocurring Events

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Re-ocurring Events Robert Rawlins - Think Blue napisał(a): and I need to do and conditional that ensures start is before today's date/time and end is after today's date/time. The string looks like: '2007-01-01 00:00:00' Do I have to convert

RE: what python technology for my app?

2007-04-27 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Rawlins - Think Blue a écrit : Just thought I'd make a little suggestion about this, I don’t know how strict you want to be with the web development side of things, but I'm a web developer by trade and have recently started using python for my non-web type applications. If you're looking

Dict Copy Compare

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Hello Guys, I'm looking for a little advice on dicts, firstly I need to learn how to copy a dict, I suppose I could just something like. Self.newdict = self.olddict But I fear that this only creates a reference rather than an actual copy, this means that as soon as I clear out the old

RE: Dict Copy Compare

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: I'm looking for a little advice on dicts, firstly I need to learn how to copy a dict, I suppose I could just something like. Self.newdict = self.olddict But I fear that this only creates a reference rather than an actual copy, this means that as soon as I clear

RE: Dict Copy Compare

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Of Tim Golden Sent: 30 April 2007 10:15 Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Dict Copy Compare Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: I have two dicts, one named 'this' and the other named 'that'. I want to get all the unique keys from 'this' and log them into a file, I then want to take all

RE: Dict Copy Compare

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Golden Sent: 30 April 2007 11:27 Cc: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Dict Copy Compare Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote: Hello Tim, Sorry, that 'value' was a slip up on my part, we're just dealing with keys here. I get that a dict stores

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