How to call application in the background with subprocess.call

Hi, I'd like to call an external application (firefox) from a python program (a PyQT GUI), but I want the external application to run in the background, I mean I do not want my python calling program to wait till the external subprocess terminates. I've tried this: call([firefox,

Re-enabling a logger

Hi, I'm using the logging module. At one point in my code I disable logging like this: logging.disable(logging.INFO) But how can I enable the logging again further on? I've tried the following, which doesn't work for re-enabling the logger: my_logger.setLevel(logging.INFO) I've also tried to

logger module : Question about log message format

Hi, I've created a logger like this: LOG_FILENAME = 'test.txt' fh=logging.FileHandler(LOG_FILENAME,'w') logger1 = logging.getLogger('myLogger1') logger1.addHandler(fh) logger1.setLevel(logging.INFO) logger1.info('message from logger1') and was hoping to get log messages in this format in my log

Question about apply

Hi, I'm using apply to pass keyword arguments as a dictionary to a funcion at runtime (which keyword arguments to pass is only known at runtime) apply is very handy for this, because it takes a dictionary of keyword arguments directly def f1(a=None,b=None,c=None): pass kw={'a':1}

Re: Question about apply

Many thanks!! On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Gary Herron gher...@islandtraining.comwrote: jorma kala wrote: Hi, I'm using apply to pass keyword arguments as a dictionary to a funcion at runtime (which keyword arguments to pass is only known at runtime) apply is very handy

Re: How to document Python code properly for Pydoc

Thanks very much for your help On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote: jorma kala wrote: Hi, Do you know where I can find the rules for documenting Python code, so that automatic document generation with Pydoc makes the most of the comments inserted

How to document Python code properly for Pydoc

Hi, Do you know where I can find the rules for documenting Python code, so that automatic document generation with Pydoc makes the most of the comments inserted in the code? I know about documenting class and method through triple quote just under the class definition. But how do you comment a

Retrieving column values by column name with MySQLdb

Hi, Is there a way of retrieving the value of columns in the rows returned by fetchall, by column name instead of index on the row? Code Snippet: query=select * from employees db=MySQLdb.connect(host=host,user=user,passwd=passwd,db=database) cursor = db.cursor ()

Accessing files in a directory which is a shortcut link (Windows)

Hi, I'd like to process files in a directory which is in fact a short cut link to another directory (under windows XP). If the path to the directory is for instance called c:\test. I have tried both following code snipets for printing all names of files in the directory: ++ snippet 1++ for

Using ascii numbers in regular expression

Hi, How can I use the ascii number of a character in a regular expression (module re) instead of the character itself? Thanks very much -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using ascii numbers in regular expression

: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:05 AM, jorma kala jjk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, How can I use the ascii number of a character in a regular expression (module re) instead of the character itself? Thanks very much I refer you to the chr() and ord() built-in functions, which can certainly

Using ZSI Soap libraries from behind a proxy-based firewall

Hi I'm trying to build a simple soap client using the ZSI library. My python script operates from behind a proxy-based firewall. Do you know how I can specify the proxy name and port to use, when using the ZSI client. ( using the urllib2, this can be done through ProxyHandler, for instance. But I

Using httplib to access servlets on tomcat server

Hi, I'm trying unsuccesfully to use the httplib library to execute servlets on a local tomcat server. If I type the following http adress on my browser http://localhost:8080/test/Serv1 the servlet works fine. But if I try to access it with the following python code: conn =

Retrieving http headers from HTTPConnection object

Hi, when using httplib for http requests, like for example: conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(www.python.org) conn.request(GET, /index.html) Is it possible to retrieve the complete http request in string form : GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.python.org User-Agent: ... Accept: ...

Automating GUI interaction with Python

Hi, Is there a python library or bindings to a library in some other language for automating GUI interaction (the kind of functionality provided by Autoit for instance). What I need to do is very simple GUI automation : moving the mouse cursor to and from specified screen coordinates, clicking,

getpixel with Python Imaging Library

Hi, I read that the getpixel function of the PIL library is relatively slow. Which alternative is therefore faster and more efficient, accesing the result of getdata() as a flat list or using the function load(), and accessing pixels through the resulting 2-dimensional array? Thanks a lot. j.

Problem using subprocess.Popen on windows

Hi, I get an error that I don't understand when using the subprocess module on Windows. I guess I'm missing out something very basic. For instance, to execute and capture the output of the ms-dos dir command, I tried the following: from subprocess import * p1 = Popen([dir], stdout=PIPE)

Using ImageGrab (PIL) to capture screen of remote computer

Hi, Is it possible to use ImageGrab of the Python Imaging Library to capture the screen of a remote computer? I'm running my python program on a computer that is connected directly via a ethernet crossover cable to another computer. Can I somehow get ImageGrab to grab the display of the remote