Re: SHOCK: WHY None?

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Borne
else: f(i+1,sm+a[i]) Maybe because you are ignoring the return value of the when you recurse... try this else: return f(i+1, sm+a[i]) -Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Script that Navigates Page needs Javascript Functionality

2007-08-06 Thread Dave Borne
in order to view the results I need I need python to navigate to this Javascript link: javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cpMain$pagerTop','4') This basically translates into go to page 4. I read the posts on this group, and from what I understand, the functionality I need is with simplejson?

Re: smtp server simulation using Python

2007-06-18 Thread Dave Borne
I have a (web) development computer w/o an SMTP server and want to test form generated e-mail using a dummy SMTP server that delivers the mail message to a file, or better yet, to a text editor instead of actually sending it. Here's a quick and dirty script I use this for email testing

Re: IndentationError: unexpected indent

2007-06-16 Thread Dave Borne
It would be very helpful when Python would warn you when there are tabs in your source. invoke python with the -t option for warnings about tabs or -tt for errors. -Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: FTP/SSL

2007-06-08 Thread Dave Borne
I'm trying to figure out how to use FTP/SSL (FTPS) - just as a client. Can I do this in Python? Is everything I need in ftplib? Where else do I look? And - any good newbie references on using FTPS? Hi, Nancy, I'm not sure if ftplib can handle ssh or not, but googling for python sftp turned up

Re: HTML Form/Page and Navigation with multiple buttons

2007-05-31 Thread Dave Borne
How can I identify which button has been pressed. Do I need a separate form for each button and hide all the relevant session fields in each form or is there a way of identifying which button has been pressed on the page. Hi, Richard, Just give each button (or input) tag a distinct name

Re: How do I Extract Attachment from Newsgroup Message

2007-05-31 Thread Dave Borne
I looked for a solution with mimetools (the way I'd approach it for email) but found nothing. ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed;', ' boundary=Boundary-00=_A5NJCP3FX6Y5BI3BH890', 'Date: Thu, ... Playing with data = n.article('116431')[3] and

Re: Why isn't this query working in python?

2007-05-25 Thread Dave Borne
I'm trying to run the following query: ... member_id=%s AND expire_date NOW() AND completed=1 AND (product_id Shouldn't you be using the bind variable '?' instead of '%s' ? (I'm asking because I'm not entirely sure how the execute command is doing the substitution) -Dave --

Re: Multi-Page login WITH Cookies (POST Data)

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Borne
After we are able to get a succussful login, i need a way that i can browse my site always including this cookie, like if i went to open up a page, it would use the cookie we got from logging in. You need something like this: import cookielib,urllib2 cookiejar = cookielib.CookieJar() opener =

Re: A best approach to a creating specified http post body

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Borne
I need to build a special http post body that consists of : name=value +\r\n strings. Problem is that depending on operations the number of name,value pairs can increase and decrease. Values need to be initialized at runtime, so storing premade text files is not possible. I'm not

Re: How safe is a set of floats?

2007-05-09 Thread Dave Borne
On 4 May 2007 07:21:49 -0700, Thomas Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to generate all the fractions between 1 and limit (with limit1) in an orderly fashion, without duplicates. Might I suggest the Stern-Brocot tree (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern-Brocot_tree) It will eliminate the

Re: How to replace the last (and only last) character in a string?

2007-05-03 Thread Dave Borne
Let's suppose s='12345 4343 454' How can I replace the last '4' character? If the last '4' will not always be the last character in the string, you could do: 'X'.join(s.rsplit('4',1)) -Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Writing a nice formatted csv file

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Borne
Whereas what I'd like to get is: 1,2,3, 10, 20, 30 (without trying this myself first...) You might try setting up a csv dialect with a delimiter of ',\t' then using a reader that can set tab stops for display. -Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reading From an Excel Sheet

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Borne
I want to write a python script which reads in data from the excel sheet .Can any one help out in this ...any help will be appreciated. Try here: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/xlrd/0.5.2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cgi File Upload without Form

2007-04-30 Thread Dave Borne
Since I want to upload the data programmatically, a form based solution is not good. Karsten, Could you explain this statement? When I want to move data to a server in a CGI environment, a form post is the easiest way I can think of. What are the specific restrictions making forms a problem?

Re: Writing Log CSV (Efficiently)

2007-04-16 Thread Dave Borne
On 4/16/07, Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Writing Log CSV (Efficiently)

2007-04-16 Thread Dave Borne
On 4/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Python has built in logging support. It's pretty flexible as far Dave as formatting output. I can get a bit complicated to set up, but Dave it will handle traffic well. Really? I've found it to be a dog in heavy logging

Re: Formatting a string to be a columned block of text

2006-12-26 Thread Dave Borne
On 26 Dec 2006 04:14:27 -0800, Leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm creating a python script that can take a string and print it to the screen as a simple multi-columned block of mono-spaced, unhyphenated text based on a specified character width and line hight for a column. Hi, Leon, For

Re: Formatting a string to be a columned block of text

2006-12-26 Thread Dave Borne
Thanks, Paul. I didn't know about textwrap, that's neat. Leon, so in my example change data1= [testdata[x:x+colwidth] for x in range(0,len(testdata),colwidth)] to data1 = textwrap.wrap(testdata,colwidth) data1 = [x.ljust(colwidth) for x in data1] oh and I made a mistake that double spaces it.