Re: time.gmtime

[Harald Karner]

asit wrote:
 we know that time.gmtime(secs) takes a parameter secs. what does this
 secs suggest ??What is it's significance ??

  import time
  help (time.gmtime)
Help on built-in function gmtime in module time:

gmtime(...)
 gmtime([seconds]) - (tm_year, tm_mon, tm_day, tm_hour, tm_min,
tm_sec, tm_wday, tm_yday, tm_isdst)

 Convert seconds since the Epoch to a time tuple expressing UTC 
(a.k.a. GMT).  When 'seconds' is not passed in, convert the current time 
instead.

  time.gmtime (0)
(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 1, 0)
 
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Re: 32 OS on 64-bit machine

[Harald Karner]

SamG wrote:
 If anyone has a x86_64 machine and is running a 32bit OS on top of
 that could you tell me what output would you get for the following
 program
 
 #==
 import platform
 print platform.processor()
 print platform.architecture()
 #==
 
 Thanks in advance
 : )~
 
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\python
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information.
  import platform
  print platform.processor ()

  print platform.architecture ()
('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
 
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Re: Detect current virtual desktop

[Harald Karner]

Maciej Bliziński wrote:
 How to detect current virtual desktop in GNOME? How to detect a virtual
 desktop change?
 
Take a look at http://wallpapoz.sourceforge.net/


Harald
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Re: Is there no compression support for large sized strings in Python?

[Harald Karner]

Claudio Grondi wrote:
 Anyone on a big Linux machine able to do e.g. :
   \python -c print len('m' * 2500*1024*1024)
 or even more without a memory error?

I tried on a Sun with 16GB Ram (Python 2.3.2)
seems like 2GB is the limit for string size:

  python -c print len('m' * 2048*1024*1024)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File string, line 1, in ?
OverflowError: repeated string is too long

  python -c print len('m' * ((2048*1024*1024)-1))
2147483647
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