HTTP POST File without cURL

2009-09-09 Thread John D Giotta
I'm working with an API that allows me to POST a zip file via HTTP and the documentation uses a cURL example. cURL works, but when I try to POST the file via python it fails. I don't want to use cURL (since I'm trying to be transparent and dependency-less), but I can't find anything online that

Re: Semaphore Techniques

2009-07-29 Thread John D Giotta
I'm working with up to 3 process session per server, each process running three threads. I was wishing to tie back the 3 session/server to a semaphore, but everything (and everyone) say semaphores are only good per process. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Semaphore Techniques

2009-07-29 Thread John D Giotta
That was my original idea. Restricting each process by pid: #bash procs=`ps aux | grep script.pl | grep -v grep | wc -l` if [ $procs -lt 3 ]; then python2.4 script.py config.xml else exit 0 fi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Semaphore Techniques

2009-07-28 Thread John D Giotta
I'm looking to run a process with a limit of 3 instances, but each execution is over a crontab interval. I've been investigating the threading module and using daemons to limit active thread objects, but I'm not very successful at grasping the documentation. Is it possible to do what I'm trying