Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-21 Thread Paul Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Colombo) writes: It seems python documentation is plain wrong, or I'm not able to read it at all: http://docs.python.org/ref/physical.html A physical line ends in whatever the current platform's convention is for terminating lines. On Unix, this is the ASCII LF

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-20 Thread Marco Colombo
Michael Fuhr wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:46:09PM +, Paul Moore wrote: The long and short of it is that I believe you just use \n to delimit lines on Windows, just like anywhere else. Many thanks -- your test results contain the info we've been seeking. Thanks a lot Paul. Micheal, you

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-17 Thread Paul Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Colombo) writes: No I wasn't sure and I actually was wrong. I've never programmed under Windows. I've just learned something. Indeed, the Windows C runtime translates CRLF to \n on input, and \n to CRLF on output, for files in text mode. Unix programmers tend not to

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-17 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Thursday 17 March 2005 23:17, Paul Moore wrote: offtopic Ironically, at the lowest level, Windows behaves just like Unix (files are pure byte streams) - it's only in the C runtime and application code that CRLF issues arise, and that's a backward-compatibility hack dating back to the days

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:46:23PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: It seems python documentation is plain wrong, or I'm not able to read it at all: http://docs.python.org/ref/physical.html A physical line ends in whatever the current platform's convention is for terminating lines. On Unix,

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-16 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:46:23PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: It seems python documentation is plain wrong, or I'm not able to read it at all: http://docs.python.org/ref/physical.html A physical line ends in whatever the current platform's convention is

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-16 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:17:51PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: aprogram = x = 1\nprint x\n; printf(aprogram); PyRun_SimpleString(aprogram); See? THIS program requires compile-time or run-time checks. You can't run it on Windows, or Mac: it'll write garbage to the screen

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-16 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:17:51PM +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: aprogram = x = 1\nprint x\n; printf(aprogram); PyRun_SimpleString(aprogram); See? THIS program requires compile-time or run-time checks. You can't run it on Windows, or Mac:

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus Hagander) writes: I suppose my first (lazy) question is, is there a Python 2.4 compatible plpython.dll available anywhere? Alternatively, is there a way I can build one for myself? I'm happy enough doing my own build (I have mingw and msys available), but I'd

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:05:22PM +, Paul Moore wrote: As per my earlier posting, I actually found that building postgresql wasn't at all hard. Once I'd built with Python 2.4 support, I had a compatible plpython.dll I could just copy in. Pardon the interruption, but do you have a

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-15 Thread Paul Moore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fuhr) writes: We (the thread participants) could use somebody with a Windows server to do some testing. Glad to help... This is with postgresql 8.0.1, Python 2.4. Specifically, we're wondering if Python on Windows requires embedded Python code to have CRLF

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:46:09PM +, Paul Moore wrote: The long and short of it is that I believe you just use \n to delimit lines on Windows, just like anywhere else. Many thanks -- your test results contain the info we've been seeking. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-14 Thread Magnus Hagander
Hi, I'm just starting to look at Postgresql. My platform (for better or worse) is Windows, and I'm quite interested in the pl/python support. However, when I run the binary installer, it is not offered to me as an option (it's there, but greyed out). The plpython.dll file is installed,

[GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-13 Thread Paul Moore
Hi, I'm just starting to look at Postgresql. My platform (for better or worse) is Windows, and I'm quite interested in the pl/python support. However, when I run the binary installer, it is not offered to me as an option (it's there, but greyed out). The plpython.dll file is installed, however.

Re: [GENERAL] New user: Windows, Postgresql, Python

2005-03-10 Thread Paul Moore
Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suppose my first (lazy) question is, is there a Python 2.4 compatible plpython.dll available anywhere? Alternatively, is there a way I can build one for myself? I'm happy enough doing my own build (I have mingw and msys available), but I'd rather not