Case tagging and python

2008-07-31 Thread Fred Mangusta
Hi, I'm relatively new to programming in general, and totally new to python, and I've been told that this language is particularly good for what I need to do. Let me explain. I have a large corpus of English text, in the form of several files. First of all I would like to scan each file. Then, f

RE: need ldap windows binary and/or installation help

2008-07-15 Thread Sells, Fred
TED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Michael Ströder > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:46 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: need ldap windows binary and/or installation help > > > Tim Golden wrote: > > Sells, Fred wrote: > >> I'm ru

need ldap windows binary and/or installation help

2008-07-15 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm running python 2.5 (or 2.4) in an XP environment. I downloaded and installed the .dll's from OpenLDAP-2.4.8+OpenSSL-0.9.8g-Win32.zip and copied the .dll's in c:/windows/system32 as instructed now I get this error. Is there anyway to avoid building the python_ldap binaries? Apart from bei

imaplib -- can't read body

2008-07-11 Thread Sells, Fred
t the body of a mail message, that would be greatly appreciated, Fred --- code starts below--- import imaplib, sys, os, re, rfc822 OK = "OK" FETCHTHIS = '(BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT FROM)])' ### got inemsg from the web, works up

RE: PyDev multiple source files?

2008-05-30 Thread Sells, Fred
the short answer is a file is a module; therefore to 'include' access to 'myclass' in file xyz.py from another file called 'abc.py' you would put this in abc.py import xyz #note no '.py' x = xyz.myclass() or from xyz import myclass #if you're lazy use ... import * x = myclass() see the basic

RE: adobe flex; return xml via turbogears/django

2008-05-29 Thread Sells, Fred
Diez wrote: > Why don't you create KID-template like this: > > ${root} > > and in the controller say > > @expose("thexmltemplate") > def ... >return dict(root=myElementTreeRoot) > sounds good. Does that "py:strip" remove the and anything outside it. I'll be doing a flex style ajax call

adobe flex; return xml via turbogears/django

2008-05-29 Thread Sells, Fred
please excuse slightly off-topic; cannot access turbogears mailing list at the moment. There was an excellent video by James Ward that showed using turbogears to return json data to adoble's flex UI. It simply used @expose("JSON") def (): ... return dict(x=1, ...) Is there

RE: do you fail at FizzBuzz? simple prog test

2008-05-20 Thread Sells, Fred
or for i in range(1,100): print ('fizz','','')[i%3] + ('buzz','','','','')[i%5] or i > > > > "Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for > > multiples of three print "Fizz" instead of the number and for the > > multiples of five print "Buzz". For numbers which are multiples

RE: Newbie In Python

2008-05-20 Thread Sells, Fred
get a python-aware editor. I vary between emacs and Eclipse, depending on my mood and the size of the project. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Bruno Desthuilliers > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:25 AM > To: python-list@python.org > S

RE: Newbie to python --- why should i learn !

2008-05-09 Thread Sells, Fred
write working programs > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 6:25 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Newbie to python --- why should i learn ! > > > Hi, > > i was reading/learning s

Need Python alternative to Request-Tracker help desk software

2008-04-29 Thread Sells, Fred
I've been tasked with either implementing Request-Tracker to upgrade our help desk issue tracking system or finding a Python equivalent (both in terms of functionality and wide spread use). Request-Tracker uses Apache and MySQL, which would also be appropriate to Python. I would prefer to go t

Re: So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

2008-04-28 Thread Fred Pacquier
John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > The performance of Qooxdoo is quite amazing - for a Javascript based > web application. Don't know about cell-phones though. You can try > their showcase web site I cited earlier. Just for the record, Nokia Internet tablets (770, N800, N810) are the only

Re: So you think PythonCard is old? Here's new wine in an old bottle.

2008-04-27 Thread Fred Pacquier
John Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > Welcome to the modernized world of Pythoncard!!! Hey, that's really neat ! I remember dabbling in Pythoncard in the early days, some years ago, it was a very interesting project. I gave it up eventually, partly because it seemed somewhat abandoned (I see

Re: PHATCH: PHoto bATCH processor with EXIF and IPTC support for all platforms

2008-04-17 Thread Fred Pacquier
"SPE - Stani's Python Editor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > What is new? Until Phatch could only save EXIF and IPTC tags on Linux. > Now this feature is available for all platforms hanks to the work of > Robin Mills who managed to compile pyexiv2 and all its dependencies > and get it to work on Mac

need help to upload file to webserver

2008-04-08 Thread Sells, Fred
I am automating the client side of a simple web interface. I need to upload a file to a webserver that requires authentication. I've got the authentication working with urllib2 (see below), but the only examples I've found to upload files use httplib without authentication. I'm competent with

RE: Can I run a python program from within emacs?

2008-03-25 Thread Sells, Fred
I use a .emacs file (attached) that some associates gave me nearly 20 years ago. Some of it is OBE now, but it still works for me on both windows and Linux. With this file I can cntrl-c cntrl-c (i.e. ^c twice to run the current buffer). Don't ask me to explain it, it just works. > -Orig

RE: Looking for very light weight template library (not framework)

2008-03-11 Thread Sells, Fred
As I recall Quixote allowed you to embed html in python. was actually pretty cool. Havenot tried it in a long time. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Malcolm Greene > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 8:56 PM > To: python-list@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Fred Drake
ur 2.4.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.x. -Fred -- Fred Drake -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Fred Drake
On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Fred Drake wrote: > 2.4.5 won't build for me from the svn checkout on Mac OS X 10.5.2: Neither does 2.3.7 now that I've tried that: gcc -u __dummy -u _PyMac_Error -framework System -framework CoreServices -framework Foundation

Re: [Python-Dev] [ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

2008-03-02 Thread Fred Drake
guments to function ‘setpgrp’ make: *** [Modules/posixmodule.o] Error 1 I can only presume I'm doing something wrong at this point, since I don't consider myself a Mac OS X developer. -Fred -- Fred Drake -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-20 Thread Fred Pacquier
Stani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > Even without python-pyexiv2 Phatch features read-only EXIF support > thanks to PIL. So you can name your files or write data stamps (date, > aperature, velocity, ...) based on EXIF information. Oh, that's good. I hadn't looked at PIL for a long while and wasn't

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-19 Thread Fred Pacquier
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > Perhaps you could put a link to the source on the Windows instalL page? > I don't mind being a second-class citizen, but it's annoying to have to > jump around like that. I'm interested too, and was also wondering if Phatch is as full-featured unders W

Re: Client side GUI-like web framework ?

2008-02-05 Thread Fred Pacquier
USCode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said : > Thanks Jay and I guess in my original post I didn't explicitly specify > Python but that is what I was after. > After poking around a bit pyjamas looks like it might be exactly what I > was after except the main pyjamas website http://pyjamas.pyworks.org > ap

Geodetic software development

2007-12-26 Thread Fred
. Clother information you can find on the site http://www.killetsoft.de/p_gdla_e.htm. Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Python web frameworks + adobe flex

2007-11-21 Thread Sells, Fred
slight shift of topic here. I'm a newbie at standard web stuff. Mostly java webstart and a little mod_python. I experimented with Adobe Flex and really loved it for doing the front end. The backend needs to provide xml, json or AMF (an adobe proprietary binary format). For prototyping, I was

RE: Python web frameworks

2007-11-21 Thread Sells, Fred
-snip-- > > Thanks everyone for the response. From the posts I understand that > Django and pylons are the best. By searching the net earlier I got the > same information that Django is best among the frameworks so I > downloaded it and I found it very difficult to configure. I referred > the dja

RE: newbie Q: sequence membership

2007-11-19 Thread Sells, Fred
> >>> a, b = [], [] > >>> a.append(b) > >>> b.append(a) did you perhaps mean a.append('b'); b.append('a'); otherwise this seems pretty advanced for a newbie > >>> b in a > True > >>> a in a > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exce

RE: Anyone knows how to use xemacs with ipython or python on WinXP? [phishing][html-removed]

2007-11-19 Thread Sells, Fred
you did remember to "byte-compile" the python-mode.el file? > I am struggling to make the ipython or python works in > xemacs. I have been seraching on the internet for a solution > for one day. I have put python-mode.el and ipython.el in the > load-path and in the xemacs I type: M-x load libra

RE: Using Python To Change The World :)

2007-11-14 Thread Sells, Fred
It sounds as if this project is a major task based on your current level of experience. That being said, all we "pythonistas" encourage and support anyone who is trying to learn/apply python. Break the problem into 2 parts: --simulation math of what you're trying to do --cool visual display (2D

Pyro: ActiveState (wind32) to Unix

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using ActiveState python on a windows box to talk to ACtive Directory. I'm running a Pyro Server on the same box. The client is Linux running std Python 2.4. It works just fine until the server codes calls some win32com.client api; then I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "

RE: RMI with Pyro et al -- thanks for help

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
thanks, that should do it Diez wrote: > Go install cygwin (but not it's included python-interpreter, > or at least > make sure you have your python path properly under control) > and then simply > start the script from the command-line. And hit C-c if you > need it to stop, > and restart it. On

RE: Problem with MySQL cursor

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
I don't think you can substitute the table name and column names in the execute, just values ( I could be wrong) try building it like this: sql = "INSERT INTO %s %s VALUES " % (taablename, columnstuple, '(%s)') cursor.execute(sql, values) > Hello, > I have a function that executes a SQL statemen

RE: RMI with Pyro et al

2007-10-11 Thread Sells, Fred
Diez B. Roggisch wrote . Why do you want that (hot deploy) > anyway? Does startuptime of a script really bother you? > shouldn't take > more than a few seconds. My primary need is development/debug. I'm a Pyro newbie and I add a feature and then test. The only way I've found to kill the Pyro

RMI with Pyro et al

2007-10-10 Thread Sells, Fred
I need a simple client/server architecture with clients on linux and servers on windows. There is no UI in this part, just business rules and access control. Pyro seems pretty cool for this due to it's simplicity. I'm just starting with it and have not been able to get the server side to "see"

RE: Mysqldb printing sql and params ... NEVER MIND

2007-10-02 Thread Sells, Fred
el stupido here "accidently" put a couple of print statements into a mysqldb module when eclipse opened it from the link in the stacktrace; -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Mysqldb printing sql and params no matter what I do

2007-10-02 Thread Sells, Fred
I had some code originally that printed the sql and params when I called the .execute method. I removed it but it still prints. I rebooted and renamed files and still it prints. I am totally stumped; I tried google but perhaps didn't use the right search; got a lot of hits but no clues. I'm usi

RE: How to Start

2007-09-14 Thread Sells, Fred
I like eclipse+pydev; although I did pay my dues learning the basics of eclipse. F9 saves file and runs it. If you're an emacs dude, emacs + python mode is pretty good. ctrl-c ctrl-c runs the active buffer. Of course if you don't already know emacs, avoid it like the plague. > -Original Mes

RE: Filemaker interactions

2007-08-28 Thread Sells, Fred
filemaker 8.0 (Pro I think) has a web page generator. That's all I know, since I didn't really need it. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of M.-A. Lemburg > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 4:36 PM > To: Ian Witham > Cc: python-list@python.

how to convert a c program to java program

2007-08-15 Thread Fred Shu (fshu)
I heard I need to port C program to JPython first and compile it to native JAVA. I don't know anything about JPython. Is there a tool to do the porting? If not, what is the quickest way to learn JPython? Thanks, Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

best SOAP module

2007-07-18 Thread Sells, Fred
I need to talk to a vendor side via SOAP, Googling is overwhelming and many hits seem to point to older attempts. Can someone tell me which SOAP module is recommended. I'm using Python 2.4. --- The information contained in

python app to emulate terminal to dialup bulletin board

2007-07-03 Thread Sells, Fred
We need to automate the download of data that is now done manually via a terminal session to a dialup bulletin board. The user uses this to upload and download files. Hard to believe in this day and age, but true. I've tried google, but the terms are just too common; all I get is clutter. So I

RE: MySQL -->Python-->XML for JSviz

2007-07-03 Thread Sells, Fred
Sometimes sneaky is better than elegant. You could shell down to a command line invocation of mysql and specify -xml as the output format. I'm not sure how close that format is to what you need or how much you could leverage views (if using mysql 5.0). You could also use a command line xslt proce

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

2007-06-28 Thread Sells, Fred
this one is fun: http://www.vpython.org/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of swordofrue > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:50 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Evolution of a pythonistas! > > > Thanks everyone for your respon

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

2007-06-28 Thread Sells, Fred
> > Wow Fred! You're awesome! How did you get 20 years in of Python when > it was created in 1991? You're right, programming skills exceed basic math. I think I started around 1990 with version 0.92 beta. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: Evolution of a pythonistas!

2007-06-28 Thread Sells, Fred
concur 100%. You can breeze through the fist half of the online tutorial in a about 2 cups of coffee but you don't know what you don't know until you try to do something real. Even with 20 years of working with Python, I find goodies in the cookbook for each new project. Get a python aware edito

RE: Help With Better Design

2007-06-25 Thread Sells, Fred
> IMHO ... untested > > class LightBulb: > def __init__(self, on=False): self.IsOn = on > > def turnOn(self): self.switchIt(True) > def turnOff(self):self.switchIt(False) > > def switchIt(self, turnon): > if self.isOn==turnon: print "The Switch is Already %s

printing html document with internet explorer

2007-06-25 Thread Fred Terp
I can print from all applications except explorer 7 which will automatically convert all documents to HTML script before printing. I am sure this is a simple setting but I can't find it. Frederick D. Terp 14985 Rivers Edge Court #135 Fort Myers, Florida 33908-7920 Phone: (239) 822-5439 Fax:

RE: pydev help

2007-06-20 Thread Sells, Fred
uncheck mylar and it should work. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Christopher L Judd > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 9:00 AM > To: Danyelle Gragsone > Cc: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: pydev help [html-removed] > > > Its calle

RE: Beginning Python

2007-06-06 Thread Sells, Fred
I find 3 elements contribute significantly to becoming competent in python 1. a decent IDE so you can see the big picture (multiple files and directories). I use Eclipse + PyDev because Eclipse supports other goodies like CVS. I'm sure other IDE's are as good if not better, but who has time to c

RE: Graph plotting module

2007-06-05 Thread Sells, Fred
www.vpython.org might be overkill, but it was easy to do simple 2d charts. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Grant Edwards > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:23 AM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: Graph plotting module > > > O

RE: MySQLdb insert fails on one table

2007-06-01 Thread Sells, Fred
thank you! that was it. I created the table using a create table (select from which must have defaulted to InnoDb, now I just create it in a script. > -Original Message- > From: Carsten Haese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:56 AM > To: Sell

MySQLdb insert fails on one table

2007-06-01 Thread Sells, Fred
I have this table mysql> describe valid_individuals; +---+--+--+-+-+---+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +---+--+--+-+-+---+ | fname | varchar(30) | YES | | NULL| | | lname | varchar(30)

RE: Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solidhigh-tr affic sites

2007-05-21 Thread Sells, Fred
I just started using flex (flex.org) from Adobe for the front end and am quite amazed at what it can do. Good docs. Clean client/server api if you like xml. It's relatively new so you still have to turn over some rocks and kiss some frogs to figure out how to get exactly the behavior you want in

Re: Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (May 16)

2007-05-19 Thread Fred Pacquier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) said : > I'll make a few personal comments. > > I knew the choice of quotes was in questionable taste. I was > out to be provocative without being offensive, though. My > apologies to Mr. Beliavsky and anyone else I disappointed. On > the whole, I still think

Re: *** Dr G Polya BRILLIANTLY analyses the Virgina Shooting Incident ***

2007-04-27 Thread Fred Bloggs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Apr 24, 2:09 pm, Quadibloc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>The Real Andy wrote: >> >>>Makes me wonder about the credibility of any statement Dr Gideon Polya >>>makes. >> >>. >>I never thought that I would feel the urge to call someone an >>edelweiss-eating Tanzanian

Re: WOLFOWITZ AND HIS IRANIAN PROSTITUTE SALARY OF $190k/yr Re: Test Tube Zealots: The American Chemical Society Terminates the Membership of Chemists from Iran

2007-04-14 Thread Fred Kasner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "I now direct you to agree to a proposal which includes the following > terms and conditions," Wolfowitz instructed. "You should accept > immediately her offer to be detailed to an outside institution of her > choosing, while retaining bank salary and benefits." > > The

RE: Fortran vs Python - Newbie Question

2007-03-26 Thread Sells, Fred
1. Python is fun! 2. Python is cool! 3. Most of the time you can google a solution, i.e. somebody has already done nearly everything you can think of. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:21 AM To: p

RE: Choosing Python

2007-03-19 Thread Sells, Fred
glad to hear it. Those of us who would like to introduce it in reluctant schools elsewhere could benefit from a post-semester evaluation, including student comments and some sample, running projects. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL P

RE: Need help with apack compression code

2007-03-16 Thread Sells, Fred
try google: "python apack" found several in general, always google first; python has so many devotees that someone has generally solved most problems already. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of priya kale Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 11:33 PM

RE: Mocking OpenOffice in python?

2007-03-14 Thread Sells, Fred
I currently use Java to generate a 150 page PDF from about 50 .odt files, including replacing occurrances of about 10 "place-holder" phrases from data in our system. I do not use the OOo database/mailmerge features, just UNO. This process takes about 20 seconds on my 2 year old XP laptop and about

RE: i can`t get python working on the command line (linux)

2007-03-13 Thread Sells, Fred
looks like it is expecting command line agrs that are not there. put this at the top of your code to see what's going on import sys print sys.argv remembering that the first element printed is sys.argv[0] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of M

RE: Eric on XP for Newbie

2007-02-28 Thread Sells, Fred
I've been using Eclipse with the PyDev extension. it's not bad, although you need a reasonably powerful computer to handle the bloat of Eclipse. For short programs, I still like emacs, but I'm old school. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of SPE

RE: Testers please

2007-02-13 Thread Sells, Fred
cool product, I'll test depending on schedule at the time. one (more) suggestion (from those of us who arn't doing the work ;) is to put this in eclipse, rather than apache, since many developers work with it. Please no IDE wars, I like emacs too, but when I'm trying to teach to newbies I use elci

Re: How to access an absolute address through Python?

2007-02-11 Thread Fred of UrlBit.Us
from Python. Can it be done? > > Thanks, Mark Your best bet will be to create a C library callable from Python to do it for you. There may be such a beast in existence already, but it should not be hard at all to do, given the simplicity of the requirements. -- -- Fred of UrlBit.Us --

RE: How can I access data from MS Access?

2007-02-05 Thread Sells, Fred
Peter, I sadly admit that I was wrong. "Doesn't seem to work" is effectivly even more useless than "doesn't work". I give up. Years ago we used to get our FORTRAN card decks back from the DP center with a piece of scrap paper saysing "She No Work". top that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/li

RE: Python tools to manipulate JARs ?

2007-01-31 Thread Sells, Fred
I have not tried this, but... Assuming jython is out of the question You might want to try a simple java command line program you could run from popen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Dingley Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 11:11 AM

OpenOffice 2.0 UNO update Links; need help

2007-01-21 Thread Sells, Fred
I've got a ~100 page document I assemble from ~30 OOo .odt files with some search and replace functions. I then produce a PDF. So far so good. Now I need to get a barcode from our internal website and insert that. The barcode will vary based on some parameters. Our internal site provides a .jp

Re: merits of Lisp vs Python

2006-12-11 Thread Fred Gilham
changes the function cell of the symbol, so from that point all the calls to the function would be to the memoized version. -- Fred Gilham [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the authors of the Daniel Bell volume says, in horror and astonishment, that the radical right intends

Re: *** C.L.L README/FAQ ***

2006-12-08 Thread Fred Gilham
A suggestion is to mention Dylan as a possibility to people who think Lisp syntax is too funky but want to see something Lisp-like. -- Fred Gilham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Progressive (adj): Value-free; tolerant; non-judgemental. E.g. traditional archery instruction

RE: Async callback in python

2006-12-06 Thread Sells, Fred
the standard print gets "delayed" somewhere inside python, however if you use print >>sys.stderr, "whatever", 3, 4 5 that prints immediately, or so it seems to me. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Linan Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:18 P

RE: python vs java eclipse

2006-12-02 Thread Sells, Fred
If you're in the PyDev perspective, F9 runs the current script while ctrl-F11 reruns the last script run. I have found that certain types of operations just plain don't work this way and must be run from a conventional shell window. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: Python work in UK

2006-11-29 Thread Sells, Fred
The technical director of Cabletron used to write applications in Python, then give the working product/code to the development group to convert. Perhaps you could build stuff in Python and outsource the conversion to India? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Ruby/Python/REXX as a MUCK scripting language

2006-11-25 Thread Fred Bayer
Tony Belding wrote: > I'm interested in using an off-the-shelf interpreted language as a > user-accessible scripting language for a MUCK. I'm just not sure if I > can find one that does everything I need. The MUCK must be able to call > the interpreter and execute scripts with it, but the int

RE: CGI Tutorial

2006-10-06 Thread Sells, Fred
content is great, my comments are editorial. I prefer PDF with bookmarks rather than HTML. 1. easy to print the whole thing and read offline. 2. easy to find a secion from bookmarks, rather that chasing links 3. easy to save on my local "doc" folder so I can be sure It will always be there. (i.e

RE: Where is Python in the scheme of things?

2006-10-05 Thread Sells, Fred
Every C++ and Java programmer that I know, who have done a moderate sized project in Python (thus requiring learning it's strengths) states that they hope to never go back to C++ or Java. I cannot comment on VB programmers, since I don't speak to them ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

RE: CGI -> mod_python

2006-10-03 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm confused. is WSGI only a specification, or are there implementations, and if so which ones -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Fwd: Recursive Tree in Python

2006-09-27 Thread Fred Kitoogo
Note: forwarded message attached. Kitoogo Fredrick Edward ___ All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.htm

Re: Dive into Python question

2006-08-26 Thread Fred C. Dobbs
Thanks, after I looked into it I realized that the output order can change arbitarily. It just seems kind of strange that the first example is one where your output might not match what the author tells you it should be - and yet there's no mention of this in the book (at least at that point.) --

Dive into Python question

2006-08-26 Thread Fred C. Dobbs
I feel like an idiot. I'm going thru "Dive Into Python" and running the first program - odbchelper.py My output is "pwd=secret;database=master;uid=sa;server=mpilgrim" which has all the substrings reversed from the output documented in the book. I've run the downloaded code in Komodo, PythonWin and

RE: ideas for programs?

2006-05-31 Thread Sells, Fred
to regurgitate what others have said. trying to solve a real-world problem is significantly more educational that writing toy programs and class assignments. Solving a real-world problem will generate more interest in your potential ability that knowing any language. Pick a problem that you and

Re: John Bokma harassment

2006-05-25 Thread Fred Gilham
unately (but understandably) people in the other newsgroups got pretty mad and complained to some authority figure somewhere. The authority figure had no authority over me but was nice about it, so I stopped. I decided my method was a bad idea. Or rather, a good idea but dangerous. :-) --

pyuno and PDF output

2006-05-04 Thread Sells, Fred
I can use java to output a PDF file using uno, but when I try to do it in python, I get an IO Exception with no added information. The relevant code snippet follows: from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue PDF= PropertyValue( "FilterName" , 0 , "writer_pdf_Export", 0 ) doc2.storeAsURL("

pyuno and oootools with OpenOffice 2.0

2006-05-04 Thread Sells, Fred
I'm using windows xp and OpenOffice 2.0 and doing my first project with pyuno. I've got the basics to work,. An example I googled at http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/aggregators/openoffice_org/blogaggregator_vi ew?b_start:int=0 imported an ootools module. When I try to import it, it does not exis

OpenOffice UNO export PDF help needed

2006-04-29 Thread Sells, Fred
I've geen googling for 3 days now, and cannot find out how to do this. I'm trying to use OpenOffice 2.0 and UNO to generate PDF documents. I'm using windows, but will have to make it work under Linux for production. I've been able to set the parameters and call the exportToPdf method, but the exp

need SOAPpy help

2006-03-22 Thread Sells, Fred
I've just been asked to do a soap client for some vendor software. I'm able to load the WSDL and discover the methods, but when I go to call a method it doesn't see it. I should be passing in a string that is named "testValue" I've been working from the soap demoes with soappy 0.12.0. I've foun

Re: MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
Perfect again Kirk! Now I will study all this so I actually understand what is happening.. Thanks! Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
OK one more... how would I do a "LIKE" instead of a = in this code? cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name=%s order by name", (form['name'].value,)) Right off I think: cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name like %%s% order by name", (form['name'].value,)) But it blow

Re: MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
Thanks Kirk! That worked perfect! And makes perfect since now that I see it... Now that I have the main pieces working I can start expanding from here! Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
Yeah, I already tried that (except you have a , after name. Your code produces the same error: NameError: name 'name' is not defined I know I am close!! Just missing some small thing... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
d, I am sure it is something very simple that I am missing!! Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

MYSql, CGI web page search code not working

2006-01-28 Thread Fred
records. I can hard code this line to: cursor.execute("Select * from phone where name = 'Fred' order by name") and it returns the one record corectly. Any ideas? Fred -- Enter the name to find: -

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
Fixed... All I did was change #!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/local/bin/python The page loaded right up it was loading Python ver 2.4.1 rather than 2.4.2 where the MySQL db module was installed... I knew it would be something easy... I learned something so it was worth it... -- http://mail.pyt

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
it is looking for /usr/bin/python I should be able to make a symlink in /usr/bin/python --> /usr/local/bin/python And of course change #!/usr/bin/python to #!/usr/local/bin/python in the script What do you think? Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
Magnus Lycka wrote: > Fred wrote: > > Slackware Linux 10.2 > > Heh, Slackware was my first Linux distro. Version > 2.2 I think. 1993 maybe? I have been using Slackware since 1995, version 3.0 kernel 1.2.13 > Some suggestions: > Finally, the cgitb module is pretty usef

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
here with me. If I can ever get this simplistic problem solved maybe you guys can help me to get Zope running, it is not cooperating either... :-) Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
Here is the complete error from my Apache error log: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/cgi-bin/mysqld_script_test.py", line 7, in ? import MySQLdb ImportError: No module named MySQLdb [Thu Jan 26 07:25:16 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad head

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
', '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages'] MySQLdb lives here but is not in the path: /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/MySQLdb Everything is running on the same machine here in my house, everything was installed and is launched as root. Thanks. Fred -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-26 Thread Fred
Re-reading my message I noticed a stupid error, not effecting my problem but annoying, I assigned variables and then did not use them, then included import cgi for my regular script. This is how the command line script should look: #!/usr/bin/python import MySQLdb db=MySQLdb.connect(host = '192.

ImportError: No module name MySQLdb

2006-01-25 Thread Fred
I hope someone can help me with the below problem... Thanks, Fred My enviroment: -- Slackware Linux 10.2 Python 2.4.2 MySql version 4.1.14 MySql-Python 1.2.0 What I am trying to do: --- Using MySQL, Python, My-Sql-Python module and CGI create a

ldap passwd need help

2006-01-18 Thread Sells, Fred
I've got the python-ldap version 2.0.11 with python 2.4 under Linux I've got the ldap stuff working for groups, but now I'm trying to use it to change a user password. I get a return of 2 and no error messages but it does not change ldap. I've tried it with uid = 'joeblow' and with oldpw=whateve

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