Re: Puzzled
Wendy said: I installed Python 3.5.0 64-bit for Windows yesterday and tried some basic programs successfully. This morning I rebooted my computer and can't get a single one to work. The interpreter seems to be fine and the environment variables look correct. But every py file I try to run at the >>> prompt gives me a NameError. But that's not how the Python interpreter works. You say you are trying to run "py files" at the >>> prompt. If what you are doing is this: >>> test.py Well, no, that's not going to work. If you want to run "test.py" as a script, from the CMD prompt you type: python test.py If test.py is a module meant to be imported, then from the Python prompt you do this: import test Hope this helps. -- Chris. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Shebang line on Windows?
On 02/25/2013 06:35 AM, Sells, Fred wrote: When moving from windows to unix you need to run dos2unix on any programs that use shebang (at least with python 2.6) that is installed on some platforms but must be installed on others like CentOs but it is in their repository. Or edit it in Vim and do :se ff=unix and then save it. dos2unix is handy if you don't plan to edit the file for any other reason. I'm assuming other editors provide similar features, but I've been a vi/vim user FOREVER. Or, borrowed from a Stack Overflow thread here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/800030/remove-carriage-return-in-unix |sed 's/\r\n$/\n/' mymodule.py mymodule-unix.py| -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+frsells=adventistcare@python.org] On Behalf Of James Harris Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 5:53 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: [Python] Re: Shebang line on Windows? On Feb 22, 6:40 pm, Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pyl...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote: I use FreeBSD or Linux, but my son is learning Python and is using Windows. My question is this: Would it be good practice for him to put #!/usr/bin/ env python at the top of his scripts, so that if made executable on *nix they will be OK? As I understand it this will have no effect on Windows itself. Adding the shebang line on Windows would be excellent practice. A word of warning unless this has since been resolved: Whenever I have tried adding the shebang line on Windows and running it on Unix the latter has complained about the carriage return at the end of the line. This means that Unix does not work when invoked as follows. (And, yes, the file has had chmod +x applied.) ./program.py It is, of course, OK when run as python program.py but that removes some of the benefit of the shebang line. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects
I moved to HostGaot because i heard there were the best in the hosting business. They are pretty good. However, you have to understand the site layout to do CGI safely. So long as your script are .cgi, putting them in ~/public_html is fine. If you need to deploy .py files, you need to put them in a different folder outside ~/public_html, for example ~/lib or ~/python, then in your CGI scripts you need to add that to the path. For example: #!/usr/bin/python import sys sys.path.append(../python) import MyModule, MyPackage.OtherModule This is more or less how all my CGI scripts on HostGator are done. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects
On 09/15/2012 10:23 AM, Νικόλαος Κούρας wrote: I swicthed back my code to: f = open( '../' + page ) and http://superhost.gr works which means that line gets parsed correctly. Only when i post data to the text area boxes iam getting the error: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects how is this possible to work before and NOT work when i enter data to the page for storing to the database? You really need to add some print-type diagnostics to your script temporarily, just to see what you are actually getting for parameters. For example, put this: print Content-type: text/plain\n near the top so you can get a source printout, then add print `page` just before you attempt your open() call so you can see what the exact Python representation of page is. Do similarly for other problems in your code. Don't leave such an instrumented copy of your CGI script on your site for very long and you should be safe. Also, consider using the built-in cgi traceback feature in your scripts, at least while you are debugging them (though you probably want to remove the traceback after you are in production). -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid
On 07/30/2012 04:20 AM, Dieter Maurer wrote: CHANGES.txt is not automatically presented. If necessary, you must integrate it into the long description. However, personally, I am not interested in all the details (typically found in CHANGES.txt) but some (often implicit) information is sufficient for me: something like major API change, minor bug fixes. Thus, think carefully what you put on the overview page. I see your point. I'm just lazy, I guess. I already put a description of what I've changed into git, so why, I muse, must I also edit the overview page separately? I was hoping there was an automatic way that setup.py sdist upload could handle it for me. I find it very stupid to see several window scrolls of changes for a package but to learn how to install the package, I have to download its source... Not sure I get this. The installation procedure for PollyReports is the same as for, what, 99% of Python source packages? sudo python setup.py install What else are you saying I should do? -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid
On 07/29/2012 11:00 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Your post is showing up as a reply to a thread about IEEE-784 floats, because you created your message as a reply. Consequently, it's rather confusing why you suddenly start talking about PollyReports. If you want to attract attention to an unrelated topic, it's best if you don't reply to an existing thread; instead, start a new thread by composing a new message to the forum. My apologies. I did not consider that headers I can't see might be being sent along. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid
I've been making some minor updates to the PollyReports module I announced a while back, and I've noticed that when I upload it to PyPI, my changelog (CHANGES.txt) doesn't appear to be integrated into the site at all. Do I have to put the changes into the README, or have I missed something here? It seems that there should be some automatic method whereby PyPI users could easily see what I've changed without downloading it first. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] RE: How to safely maintain a status file
On 07/13/2012 11:00 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: Well neat tricks aside, I am of the firm belief that deleting files should never be possible whilst they are open. This is one of the few instances I think Windows does something better than OS X. Windows will check before you attempt to delete (i.e. move to Recycling Bin) while OS X will move a file to Trash quite happily only tell me it cannot remove the file when I try to empty the Trash. While I was trained in the Unix way, and believe it is entirely appropriate to delete an open file. Even if I my program is the opener. It's just too handy to have temp files that disappear on their own. As opposed to periodically going to %TEMP% and deleting them manually. Gah. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: How to safely maintain a status file
On 07/13/2012 12:59 PM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: I lean slightly towards the POSIX handling with the addition that any additional write should throw an error. You are now saving to a file that will not exist the moment you close it and that is probably not expected. Ramit But if I created, then deleted it while holding an open file descriptor, it is entirely likely that I intend to write to it. I'll admit, these days there are those in the Unix/Linux community that consider using an anonymous file a bad idea; I'm just not one of them. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ANN: PollyReports 1.5 -- Band-oriented PDF Report Generator
Apparently my test hasn't kept up with my update. I'll get it revised soon and make a new release. BTW... who is Simon? I wrote the tutorial. (Solomoriah is an old handle I still use a lot since it's less common than Chris.) -- Chris. On 07/12/2012 03:32 AM, Johann Spies wrote: On 12 July 2012 10:27, Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com mailto:johann.sp...@gmail.com wrote: I get the same error when running the example code from Simon's tutorial (sample02 - sample07). Thanks Simon for your tutorial. Changing 'right = 1' in all the example code to 'align = right ' solved the problem. I suspect the example code was not updated after recent changes. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ANN: PollyReports 1.5 -- Band-oriented PDF Report Generator
Wow, I posted this on Github weeks ago, and got no feedback; put it on PyPI at the same time, with the same results; but one day on the Python list and I have lots of excellent feedback. I've just posted PollyReports 1.5.1, with no operational changes. The package includes a corrected testpolly.py file as well as corrected sample*.py files with right = 1 changed to align = 'right'. The license information has been revised to include the text BSD 2-Clause License so that no one has to think about whether or not it's actually a BSD license. If you downloaded the previous version, you don't really need the new one unless you're going through the tutorial. Thanks! -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
ANN: PollyReports 1.5 -- Band-oriented PDF Report Generator
I've held off announcing this until I was sure it was really stable; it's been 19 days since I made the last change to it, so here goes. PollyReports is my Python module for report generation. It is designed to be, quite literally, the simplest thing that can possibly work in the field of PDF generation from a database record set. There is a somewhat vague resemblance to GeraldoReports; I had problems with Geraldo's pagination which led me to develop PollyReports in a brief flurry of intense activity. It's on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PollyReports and on Github: https://github.com/Solomoriah/PollyReports and I have a blog where I talk about it (like anyone cares): http://opensource.gonnerman.org/?cat=4 Here's the README: PollyReports.py Copyright (c) 2012 Chris Gonnerman All Rights Reserved See the LICENSE file for more information. (Note: BSD licensed) - PollyReports.py provides a set of classes for database report writing. It assumes that you are using Reportlab to do PDF generation, but can work with any canvas-like object as desired. PollyReports provides the following framework for report generation: A Report object has a data source bound to it at instantiation. One or more Band objects (at least, a detail Band) must be added to it, and then the generate() method will be called to process the data source. The data source must be an iterator that produces objects that can be accessed via [] operations, meaning mainly dict, list, and tuple types, i.e. the most common types of records returned by standard database modules. The detail band is generated() once for each row. Band objects contain a list of Elements (generally at least one) which define how data from the row should be printed. An Element may print any normal data item or label and may be subclassed to handle other things like images. Generating a band in turn calls Element.generate() for each element, producing a list of Renderers with the first item in the list being the overall height of the band. The height is used to decide if the band will fit on the current page; if not, a new page will be created first. When the page is finally ready for the band, Renderer.render() will be called for each Renderer in the element list in order to actually render the data. As noted above, PollyReports expects a Reportlab-like canvas interface. The module has been kept as clean as possible, so that, though I don't actually recommend it, it would not be insane to say from PollyReports import * Importing only what you expect to use is still a better idea, of course. -- --- Chris Gonnerman ch...@newcenturycomputers.net Owner, New Century Computers Phone 660-213-3822 Fax 660-213-3339 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Why I need the parameter when the call doesn't use it?
On 08/28/2011 07:26 PM, Niklas Rosencrantz wrote: I modularize code for a webapp and I want to know what python makes that a need to define an argument called self? Here's some code where I'm modularizing a recaptcha test to a function and the I must add the parameter self to the function is_submitter_human: class A(BaseHandler, blobstore_handlers.BlobstoreUploadHandler): def is_submitter_human(self): is_submitter_human() isn't a function, it's a method. Methods are always called with a reference to the class instance (i.e. the object) that the method belongs to; this reference is the first argument, and is conventionally called self. Though I've hacked it out, your code sample includes calls to other methods of the object, by calling self.methodname(). Without the first parameter, how else would you do it? -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: Windows service in production?
Chiming in late here, but I've been running a very simple Python service for some time now on a number of computers. It's my Raw Print Server, available at http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/rawprintserver.html, and I have instructions on the page for installing the Windows service version. It's really quite simple to do in plain Python; the only reason to use py2exe is if you don't want to install a full Python interpreter on the computer. But since I generally do anyway, it doesn't matter to me. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: Windows service in production?
Chiming in late here, but I've been running a very simple Python service for some time now on a number of computers. It's my Raw Print Server, available at http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/rawprintserver.html, and I have instructions on the page for installing the Windows service version. It's really quite simple to do in plain Python; the only reason to use py2exe is if you don't want to install a full Python interpreter on the computer. But since I generally do anyway, it doesn't matter to me. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
International translation of docs - is it a scam?
On the 30th of May, I received an email from a man (I'll leave out his name, but it was properly male) offering to translate the docs for the gdmodule (which I maintain) into Belorussian. He wanted my approval, and a link from my page to his. This seemed fair, so I told him to tell me when it was ready. This morning, I received an email from him that it was done. I looked at the page, and it looked good. Of course, I don't read Belorussian, but it had the right shape and linked to my downloads. But at the same time, I received an email with a female sender name on it. It was worded almost identically to the first email, but was offering to translate my WConio page into Belorussian. The Belorussian gdmodule page is here: http://webhostingrating.com/libs/gdmodule-be Now, webhostingrating.com is a site that rates web hosting providers, and at least on the surface seems legitimate. I can't find any links from their front page to the section with the Belorussian translation(s), which strikes me odd. What's going on here? Has anyone else been approached by these people? -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] how to tell if cursor is sqlite.Cursor or psycopg2.Cursor
You're looking at it wrong. It doesn't matter what type of cursor it
is, only if you can get the correct number. So use a try...except:
try:
cursor.execute(
select last_insert_rowid()
)
except:
cursor.execute(
select currval('my_sequence')
)
That's just a quick-and-dirty example; you might need to pretty it up,
or actually declare the type of exception you're expecting (always a
good idea, but I didn't feel like looking up the right sqlite exception).
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Re: [Python] How can a function find the function that called it?
On 12/24/2010 10:24 AM, kj wrote: I want to implement a frozen and ordered dict. I thought I'd implement it as a subclass of collections.OrderedDict that prohibits all modifications to the dictionary after it has been initialized. In particular, calling this frozen subclass's update method should, in general, trigger an exception (object is not mutable). But OrderedDict's functionality *requires* that its __init__ be run, and this __init__, in turn, does part of its initialization by calling the update method. Use a flag, private to your new class, to indicate whether initialization is complete or not; your update method would see that initialization is not yet complete when called by __init__, and so it would do its business (calling the class method). At the end of the __init__ function, set the initialized property to true. If your update is called with the initialized property already set to true, it will raise the exception. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] scipy code runs in empty directory, not another
On 11/13/2010 07:52 AM, Beliavsky wrote: After installing numpy, scipy, and matplotlib for python 2.6 and running the code from http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/OptimizationDemo1 (stored as xoptimize.py) in a directory with other python codes, I got the error messages C:\python\code\mycodepython xoptimize.py Traceback (most recent call last): File xoptimize.py, line 3, inmodule from pylab import * File c:\python26\lib\site-packages\pylab.py, line 1, inmodule from matplotlib.pylab import * File c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py, line 133, inmodule import sys, os, tempfile File c:\python26\lib\tempfile.py, line 34, inmodule from random import Random as _Random File C:\python\code\mycode\random.py, line 1, inmodule from RandomArray import standard_normal File C:\python\code\mycode\RandomArray.py, line 1, inmodule import ranlib ImportError: No module named ranlib When I create a new directory, copy xoptimize.py there, and run, the program works. Can someone explain why other files are interfering in the first case? Thanks. You'd need to post a list of the files in the directory before we'd have any idea why this is happening. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Unsupported Format Character '' (0x26)
On 08/18/2010 06:35 PM, Andrew Evans wrote: I get an error message Unsupported Format Character '' (0x26) I narrowed it down to these two variables any idea how to fix it? SEARCH_URL_0 = http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdEf1XGxMJRoAUdml87UF;_ylc=X1MDMjE0MjQ3ODk0OARfcgMyBGZyA3NmcARuX2dwcwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc3ljBHF1ZXJ5A3Rlc3QEc2FvAzE-?p=%(query)fr=sfpfr2=iscqry= http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdEf1XGxMJRoAUdml87UF;_ylc=X1MDMjE0MjQ3ODk0OARfcgMyBGZyA3NmcARuX2dwcwMxMARvcmlnaW4Dc3ljBHF1ZXJ5A3Rlc3QEc2FvAzE-?p=%%28query%29fr=sfpfr2=iscqry= NEXT_PAGE_0 = http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdEEMXWxMnBAAiWhXNyoA?p=%(query)fr=sfpxargs=12KPjg1qNyy4-MkfqnfKqLCLLAhlMFta2Epstart=%(start)b=11 http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGdEEMXWxMnBAAiWhXNyoA?p=%%28query%29fr=sfpxargs=12KPjg1qNyy4-MkfqnfKqLCLLAhlMFta2Epstart=%%28start%29b=11 Not %(query) Should be %(query)s The 's' means string. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] favicon.ico problem
On 08/09/2010 11:32 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote: I am having this strange problem. I have programmed a very basic multiprocessing webserver using low level sockets. Each time the server receives a request it spawns a new process to handle the request. Now when through a web browser I type http://localhost:8001/ it automatically creates two processes: One process to server the '/' path and another one to serve the '/favicon.ico' path. I have not programmed it to serve the latter. Infact I dont even know where that name '/favicon.ico' comes from. Any insight into this weird behavior would be greatly appreciated. All modern browsers attempt to retrieve this file from any web server visited; it becomes the website's icon in any shortcut/deskcut, and appears on the address bar beside the URL. Short answer: You can safely ignore it. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Hashbang error
pradeepbpin wrote: I use gVim as an editor to create python scripts on a windows machine. To run the same script on my ubuntu machine, I added a hashbang line to the script. Now when I run this script from command line of ubuntu, I get a bad interpreter error, like below /usr/bin/python^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory This, I understand, is due to the interpretation of newline character at the end of the hashbang. I have checked and found out that this does not happen if I create the script in Ubuntu with gVim. Now, how can I avoid this error when I create the script on a windows machine? In gvim, type: :se ff=unix then resave the file. Once it's in unix format, gvim won't change it back to dos unless you tell it to. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: Printing plain text with exact positioning on Windows
KvS wrote: Ok, actually I quite like being able to print straightforward through your code, i.e. without any extra modules installed. I understand that sending text to the printer is in principle as simple as dc.TextOut(scale_factor * 72, -1 * scale_factor * 72, Testing...) I didn't see you do anything with adjusting margins in the code. Does that mean that if I would e.g. do dc.TextOut(0, 0, Testing...) the printout would appear in the upper left corner of the paper, as close to the edges as the printer is capable of? (Sorry, but I only have Ubuntu available at the moment, no Windows). Actually, as I understand it (and I'll admit my understanding is a bit flawed in some areas), when you tell MSWinPrint.py to print at (0, 0), you are telling it to print at the actual paper edge; if that's outside the printable area (and it probably is for most printers), your printing will be cut off. Best thing to do is to try it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Printing plain text with exact positioning on Windows
KvS wrote: So now I'm looking for other ways to get this printing job done. I know of Tim Goldens page about Windows printing: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/win32_how_do_i/print.html and have been googling a lot, but I'm still not convinced what the best way to go is. E.g. I can't get clear whether the combination reportlab Acrobat Reader allows to print very close to the left and right edge of the paper (without a user having to change something in a Print dialog etc.). I have a page, and a module, for Windows printing which gives a lot of control. http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/pythonicwindowsprinting.html But in your case, I think I'd consider ReportLab. Also, it seems to me that I've seen a simpler PDF generator module for Python. Dunno where, though. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: Printing plain text with exact positioning on Windows
KvS wrote: ... can I adjust the options normally appearing in the Printing Dialog through Python? Yes, if you use my method or my module, as I gave in my previous post. If you use Adobe Reader to print, I'm not sure how to automate the print settings. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: [Python] Re: Printing plain text with exact positioning on Windows
KvS wrote: Sorry, one more. I completely forgot it's not exactly plain text, but occasionally also a limited number of non-ASCII characters (accents in names etc.). Would this be possible through your method? If Windows can print it, then MSWinPrint.py should be able to also. But I haven't tested that extensively. YMMV. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: os.system('cls')
Depends on what operating system you are using. The list of possible
commands would be unbounded, if not truly infinite.
From: Dennis van Oosterhout [mailto:de.slotenzwem...@gmail.com]
Hi there! I was searching for a way to clear the 'DOS screen'/command
screen etc. and found that os.system('cls') works for this. I was just
wondering where I can find al the commands which can be used for
os.system(). I searched with google but I didn't find an answer. In the
official python tutorial it says os.system('command') executes the
command, but it doesn't say which commands exist (or I'm just blind).
Does anyone have an answer for this question?
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Re: [Python] Re: efficient data loading with Python, is that possible possible?
Neil Cerutti wrote: An inefficient parsing technique is probably to blame. You first inspect the line to make sure it is valid, then you inspect it (number of column type) times to discover what data type it contains, and then you inspect it *again* to finally translate it. I was thinking just that. It is much more pythonic to simply attempt to convert the values in whatever fashion they are supposed to be converted, and handle errors in data format by means of exceptions. IMO, of course. In the trivial case, where there are no errors in the data file, this is a heck of a lot faster. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Clearing a DOS terminal in a script
Stephen_B wrote:
This doesn't seem to work in a dos terminal at the start of a script:
from os import popen
print popen('clear').read()
Any idea why not? Thanks.
As others have mentioned, you should just do:
os.system(cls)
Or, you can use my WConio module for fancier work.
http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/wconio.html
Good luck!
-- Chris.
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Why Python 3?
I spent some time today reading about Python 3, and specifically the differences between Python 3 and Python 2, and I was left with a question... why? Why bother to change to Python 3, when the CPython implementation is slower, and probably will be for a while? When I learned Python, 1.5 was the current version. Each new version from 2.0 on brought goodies to the table... I think I have made use of about half of the advancements that have come along since. But I was swayed into taking Python seriously by Eric Raymond's article in Linux Journal, where he talked about how much easier it was to read his old code in Python than in Perl, and how the whole white space thing wasn't so bad. I discovered I agreed with him. Python has been my favorite language ever since. But... almost all of my old 1.5 code ported painlessly to 2.x. No need for a 1.5to2 script, whereas I see that there is a 2to3 script for converting modules. Python 1.5 and 2.x are executable pseudocode, something that can be easily read by anyone with a modicum of programming knowledge. In fact, the things I rarely or never use in Python tend to be those things I find hardest to read (like list comprehensions). Few of the changes along the way have required me to change how I *write* code; probably the worst was the integer division change, which I disagreed with, but I went along with the community. I don't see myself using Python 3 for a long time. Probably as long as I can hold out. Where are my goodies? What is my payoff for learning how to write code the new way? I can't see it. Many things seem a lot less obvious... like, what was wrong with dict.keys() returning a list? Now it returns some strange object type. I don't think I can surely be the only one. Certainly, I'm nobody important; it's not as if my opinion has any real bearing on the situation. I suspect that many Python coders will stay with 2.x; after all, this is Open Source... there is no Micro$oft forcing us to upgrade to get more licenses. If enough people stay with 2.x... will the project fork? Will there be enough of us to maintain Python 2 indefinitely? Will module maintainers have to choose which version of Python to support? It's already a pain for me to keep the GDmodule up with the current Python release... and it's a pretty small module. I just don't see the point. I feel like we already have all we need in Python 2. I feel like the language is becoming less and less friendly and readable as it evolves. Just my two cents, I guess. -- Chris Gonnerman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python on Vista installation issues
Okay, I've figured it out. It's easy (but stupid)... right click the extension installer program, and choose Run as Administrator. Just posting this so the next Google search for an answer might actually find one. -- --- Chris Gonnerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Owner, New Century Computers Phone 660-213-3822 Fax 660-213-3339 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python on Vista installation issues
Mattia Gentilini wrote: will ha scritto: Vista is a 64 bit OS and there is no port of pywin32 for either Vista or 64-bit XP Vista exists in BOTH 32 bit and 64 bit versions. Indeed, and this is running on a Core 2 Duo laptop, a 32 bit platform. The problem is obvious (or seems to be)... the installer for Python (which is a professional installer) has set the c:\python25 folder privileges so that the installers for the extensions (which are the pocket-sized installers from the distutils) can't write files in that folder. The site-packages folder is evidently marked public (however that is done) so that the installation of files into that folder by the extension installers works fine. But then, there is also a restricted registry key that is blocking the win32all installer from working properly. I hate Vista. Does anyone like it? Okay, that's off topic, but I had to vent. -- --- Chris Gonnerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Owner, New Century Computers Phone 660-213-3822 Fax 660-213-3339 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Python on Vista installation issues
I'm having errors installing Python extensions on Vista. I'm running Python 2.5, and every extension install produces cannot create errors. For instance, win32all 210 says: Could Not Create: pywin32-py2.5 Could Not Set Key Value: Python 2.5 pywin32-210 Could Not Set Key Value: (followed by the uninstaller command) Other extensions produce similar errors. I haven't thoroughly tested this system yet, so I don't know if any of this is really causing a problem. Can anyone tell me how to fix or avoid this problem? -- --- Chris Gonnerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Owner, New Century Computers Phone 660-213-3822 Fax 660-213-3339 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: some suggestions about GUI toolkits?
iclinux wrote: I have to build a GUI applicaiton that could run on different OS such as windows and *nix, which GUI toolkit is better? I've had good luck with both Tkinter and PyGTK. I don't really like the look and feel of Tkinter, though it has gotten better over time; but PyGTK involves a couple of extra installs on Windows (first a GTK+ runtime and then the PyGTK module). I've had a LOT of people tell me how great WxPython is but I've never used it. I think it may involve more prerequisite installations than PyGTK but frankly I don't know. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?
could ildg wrote: If private and protected is supported, python will be perfect. Python IS perfect. Each new release makes it MORE perfect. :) There are two philosophies about programming: -- Make it hard to do wrong. -- Make it easy to do right. What you are promoting is the first philosophy: Tie the programmer's hands so he can't do wrong. Python for the most part follows the second philosophy, making writing good code so easy that the coder is rarely tempted to commit any evil. Like I said, Python IS perfect. -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
[ANN] WConio 1.5 Binary Installer for Python 2.4
At long last I've upgraded to Python 2.4 on my Windows development host, and as a direct result I have released a WConio 1.5 binary installer for Python 2.4. WConio is my Windows CONsole I/O for Python module. It emulates the conio.h functionality of Turbo C 2.0. This module is based heavily on the TCCONIO package by Daniel Guerrero Miralles, and (like TCCONIO) is in the public domain. WConio may be downloaded from: http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/wconio.html -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
[ANN] Alternative Readline for Windows -- Binary Installer for Python 2.4 released
This is to announce the release of a binary installer for my Alternative Readline for Windows. This module provides interactive command-line editing for Python on Windows. I realize the console functions of Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 work in the newest Python versions, but it appears that many programmers still work at least part time on Windows 95/98/Me. This module is for them. The source archives and binary installers for Alternative Readline are available for download here: http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/readline.html -- Chris. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
ANN: gdmodule 0.54
Announcing the release of version 0.54 of the gdmodule for Python. gdmodule is the standard module providing access to Thomas Boutell's GD Graphics Drawing library. This release includes many bugfixes, and paves the way for another update in the near future to support the newest GD versions. Thanks to Greg Hewgill, Christopher Stone, Matti Jagula, Sadruddin Rejeb, and Betty Li for assisting in this release, either in terms of reporting bugs or actually providing patches. Due to the constant change in the GD library API, I keep all the old versions of gdmodule on my website alongside the current version. You can download gdmodule from: http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html -- Chris Gonnerman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
