Dallas Ft. Worth Pythoneers' Meetings

2005-05-12 Thread Jeff Rush
Contents Within: [1] Evening social at Springcreek this Thursday [2] Programming session at Nerdbooks this Saturday [3] Club version control repository established [1] The DFW Pythoneers, an open discussion group based around the Python programming language, will be having its 6th get-together

pyExcelerator 0.5.0a released (Python + FreeBSD + Excel 5/95/97/2k/XP/2k3 + UNICODE)

2005-05-12 Thread Roman V. Kiseliov
Hi! I'm pleased to announce that pyExcelerator 0.5.0a is now available for download. --- What can you do with pyExcelerator: Generating Excel 97+ files with Python 2.4+ (need decorators), importing Excel 95+ files, support for UNICODE in Excel

The Python Challenge - for riddle lovers!

2005-05-12 Thread pythonchallenge
For the riddles' lovers amongst you, you are most invited to take part in The Python Challenge, the first programming riddle on the net. Every riddle can be solved by a bit of Python programming. It is a great and unique way to explore the included batteries of Python. You are most invited to

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread John Bokma
Ivan Van Laningham wrote: Hi All-- John Bokma wrote: Ivan Van Laningham wrote: Python docs are not as good as PHP docs. Oh my. I hope you are just making that up. PHP documentation is guesstimated on how PHP works on average. Add the online comments clutter and you probably are

Re: pyvm -- faster python

2005-05-12 Thread Bengt Richter
On 11 May 2005 19:48:42 -0700, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stelios Xanthakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't know much about PyPy. It seems that pyvm is *exactly* what pypy needs to boost its performance. Does pypy has the vm in python as well? Does pypy have a compiler

Re: Finding startup files

2005-05-12 Thread jeff elkins
On Thursday 12 May 2005 05:24 am, Mike Meyer wrote: jeff elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 11 May 2005 04:44 pm, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2005-05-11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following script demonstrates a method that should work for you. I believe it

Re: Destructor Woes, was Advice needed on __del__

2005-05-12 Thread flupke
phil wrote: Then i got a tip that you can register a function that needs to be called when the object is going to be deleted. For instance to register a function __exit, you do this: Here is the complete line class with your suggestion: Below is the output. Nice idea, maybe I did

Re: HELP Printing with wxPython

2005-05-12 Thread jeff elkins
On Thursday 12 May 2005 04:56 am, Mike Meyer wrote: James Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are doing this just for yourself, and you know you have a printer that will really print just the plain text when you send it plain text (like a dot matrix printer from the early 90s) then you

Re: Module on Getting the Date Time

2005-05-12 Thread Edvard Majakari
Sara Khalatbari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Is there a Modules in Python that returns the time date of today when ran? You mean a method in a module? Yes, there's good 'ol time module, which will probably provide what you need: import time time.time() # number of seconds (+ fract)

subclass dialog or put in the resource files?

2005-05-12 Thread flupke
I'm using wxPython and design the gui via wxglade. One of the gui components is a simple dialog class that gets displayed when a user exits the program. I want to use the same dialog but with a different text for closing certain dialogs in the program. (it's a pure do you want to exit insert

tkinter puzzler

2005-05-12 Thread Paul Rubin
I have a gui with a bunch of buttons, labels, the usual stuff. It uses the grid manager: gui = Frame() gui.grid() gui.Label().grid() # put some widgets into the gui ...# more widgets Now at the the very bottom of the gui, I want to add two more buttons, let's say stop and

Re: TAKE_FOCUS

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Franklin
phil wrote: WM_TAKE_FOCUS does not work on WinXP ?? I was sure I had used that on win before. Works on Linux. I have a function I need to run when the window gets the focus. How do you do that in Tkinter on Win32? Thanks Take a look at the module docs for Tkinter you will need the one

Re: tkinter puzzler

2005-05-12 Thread Martin Franklin
Paul Rubin wrote: I have a gui with a bunch of buttons, labels, the usual stuff. It uses the grid manager: gui = Frame() gui.grid() gui.Label().grid() # put some widgets into the gui ...# more widgets Now at the the very bottom of the gui, I want to add two more

Re: reg mail sending without smtp module

2005-05-12 Thread Roel Schroeven
praba kar wrote: --- Tim Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't you want to use smtplib ? In Php we can build a Mail Message by Mail_mime class and send this message by Mail::Factory's class send Method. Here Php doesn't use any smtp modules. Like that In Python I used email.Message

Re: reg mail sending without smtp module

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Meyer
praba kar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Php we can build a Mail Message by Mail_mime class and send this message by Mail::Factory's class send Method. Here Php doesn't use any smtp modules. Like that In Python I used email.Message class to build Mail Message and Now I am searching modules to

Re: Using TCL files in Python ?

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Moscatt
Many thanks to all who have helped me out on this one - much appreciated. Pete On Wed, 11 May 2005 07:22:09 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: While I've never used it, there *is* a Tix module in Python which appears to wrap the widgets provided by Tix. In Fedora Core 2, Python doesn't seem to be

Re: Unique Elements in a List

2005-05-12 Thread Edvard Majakari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: [x for x in data if data.count(x) == 1] suffice? it is also stable preserving order of items. Lemme demo: Only for small datasets -- this is an O(N^2) algorithm. I realized that, but maybe I should've pointed it out too. For the OP if he/she is unaware -

Re: HELP Printing with wxPython

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Meyer
jeff elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Instead, as was suggested earlier, use the lpr command and send it the text/data on standard input. Any reasonably managed Unix system should be able to handle a fair range of graphics formats, though postscript is preferred. I've been using:

Re: Python Documentation (vs PHP stuff)

2005-05-12 Thread Roel Schroeven
Terry Reedy wrote: Because of these two posts (and a few others) extolling the PHP documentation, I decided to take a look for myself to see what the fuss was about and whether I could get any ideas on how to improve Python's docs. [...] Finally, 80% of the chapter/page consists of a

RE: windows directories for curr user

2005-05-12 Thread Tim Golden
[flamesrock] | | Thanks for the code Tom. | | Unforunately, I get the following error message when trying to import | win32com in idle: | | from win32com.shell import shell, shellcon | | Traceback (most recent call last): | File pyshell#20, line 1, in -toplevel- | from win32com.shell

Re: pyvm -- faster python

2005-05-12 Thread Stelios Xanthakis
Kay Schluehr wrote: Yes. What we are seeking for and this may be the meaning of Armins intentiously provocative statement about the speed of running HLLs is a successor of the C-language and not just another VM interpreter that is written in C and limits all efforts to extend it in a

RE: Finding startup files

2005-05-12 Thread Tim Golden
[Mike Meyer] [... snip discussions of where to put config files ...] | Yes, but Windows these days supports multiple users. Are you sure that | you want to restrict your users to one configuration file per | installed version of the program? | | I'm not sure Windows has a good solution to this

Re: tkinter puzzler

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Otten
Paul Rubin wrote: I think you are missing the columnconfigure()/rowconfigure() methods as Martin Franklin pointed out. Anyway, here is some code to illustrate the matter. I've found it helpful to use false colors to see what's going on. the yellow 'main' frame contains the red 'north' and the

Re: Proxy Design Advice Needed

2005-05-12 Thread nitrogenycs
Thanks for the hint so far! The recipe shown there does not exactly what I want though, it doesn't do the type() stuff and it hooks up every _ variable which could get crucial if the wrapped object's methods uses them too. So I think my question boils down to how I can make type(Proxy) return

Re: HELP Printing with wxPython

2005-05-12 Thread James Carroll
There's a working version in the wxPython Demo... If you run the wxpython demo, and choose Print Framework under Miscellaneous it has code that looks a whole lot like what's on the wiki, only you can test it and try it out and see if it's broken for you there. If anything doesn't work, let the

Re: reg mail sending without smtp module

2005-05-12 Thread praba kar
Dear All, From this below answer I got clear idea for mail sending Module. I am expecting this kind of answer . Thank you for your immediate response. --- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: praba kar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Php we can build a Mail Message by Mail_mime class

Re: reg mail sending without smtp module

2005-05-12 Thread praba kar
Dear All, From this below answer I got clear idea for mail sending Module. I am expecting this kind of answer . Thank you for your immediate response. --- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: praba kar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Php we can build a Mail Message by Mail_mime class

Re: Python Documentation (vs PHP stuff)

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Terry Reedy wrote: Conclusion 1: if PHP is anything as awful as the manual, it is not for me. the whole idea that turning the manual into a wiki or a forum will solve all problems is extremely naive. on the other hand, having written lots of manual enhancing material, I would love to be able

Re: Destructor Woes, was Advice needed on __del__

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
flupke wrote: Then i got a tip that you can register a function that needs to be called when the object is going to be deleted. For instance to register a function __exit, you do this: class line: def __init__(s,glob,argl,color=''): atexit.register(s.__exit) I don't know

Re: Destructor Woes, was Advice needed on __del__

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then i got a tip that you can register a function that needs to be called when the object is going to be deleted. For instance to register a function __exit, you do this: Here is the complete line class with your suggestion: Below is the output. Nice idea,

Re: TAKE_FOCUS

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
phil wrote: WM_TAKE_FOCUS does not work on WinXP ?? I was sure I had used that on win before. Works on Linux. I have a function I need to run when the window gets the focus. How do you do that in Tkinter on Win32? binding the FocusIn event should work. (and make sure that the takefocus

Re: Python Documentation (vs PHP stuff)

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
toolchain that adds relevant links to the generated HTML. e.g. oops. here's the pre-paste-and-cut-error text: toolchain that adds relevant links to the generated HTML. with that in place, external contributors can then place an annotation file on their own server, and send the

Re: Importing modules

2005-05-12 Thread qwweeeit
Hi all. Steve Holden wrote: ... to conflict with the can't teach an old dog new tricks ... Excuse my English (also some terms of your replay have no correspondance in my English dictionary...) and my lack of patience (beeing an old dog ...). My original request was mainly centered on flow

Re: Destructor Woes, was Advice needed on __del__

2005-05-12 Thread phil
do you (or whoever gave you the tip) have the slightest idea what atexit does? Yeah, I got the tip on this group. researched and found it was for when program ends! I was trying to treat it like a destructor. darn. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life: no one can come to the Father(God)(in Heaven), but by me. (John 14:6) This means that if you die without trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you will die in your sins and be forever sepa

2005-05-12 Thread Mike brown
I don't give a feather or a fig. MJRB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

pexpect: TIMEOUT exception never raised

2005-05-12 Thread Adrian Casey
I have a python script which uses pexpect and I want to timeout (i.e. raise pexpect.TIMEOUT) if a long running command does not produce the output I am expecting. To simulate the 'long running command', consider the following example which simply runs the 'yes' command which prints an endless

Sleepycat Bsdbd 4.3.27 and Python 2.4.1

2005-05-12 Thread Cassiano, Marco
Hi all,Ive just compiled Python 2.4.1 on a linux box (RHEL 3AS) after having installed Berkeley DB 4.3.27 from sleepycat Software.During the configure/build process python correctly found the BSBDB library.I then installed the rest of my environment which is correctly working with Python

Re: Python Documentation (vs PHP stuff)

2005-05-12 Thread James Carroll
Conclusion 1: if PHP is anything as awful as the manual, it is not for me. the whole idea that turning the manual into a wiki or a forum will solve all problems is extremely naive. Wha? I haven't done PHP for a couple of years, but when I really needed documentation, the PHP docs were

Re: Destructor Woes, was Advice needed on __del__

2005-05-12 Thread flupke
Fredrik Lundh wrote: flupke wrote: Then i got a tip that you can register a function that needs to be called when the object is going to be deleted. For instance to register a function __exit, you do this: class line: def __init__(s,glob,argl,color=''):

Europython update

2005-05-12 Thread Jacob Hallen
This is a news update about the Europython 2005 conference, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden 27-29 June - We have received a very nice array of talks this year, and we expect to be the biggest Python conference ever in terms of subjects covered. Many thanks to all the speakers who are putting

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
Paul Some parts of the lib doc are better than others. The only way to Paul understand SocketServer, for example, is to read the long comment Paul at the beginning of the source file. I've been wanting to get Paul around to merging that with the doc writeup and adding some

Re: Importing modules

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So forgive me if I'm in trouble... Instead of mocking me, the better should be to give me an brief idea of the import's roll (namespaces, visibility and so on...) if you're interested in learning stuff, why not spend your time reading up on how things work, rather

RE: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Michael . Coll-Barth
try b1=c:/test.txt It seems to work for me on Windows 2000. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] n.org]On Behalf Of George Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:41 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Launch file in Notepad Newbie question: I'm trying to

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Brian van den Broek
George said unto the world upon 2005-05-12 09:41: Newbie question: I'm trying to lauch Notepad from Python to open a textfile: import os b1=c:\test.txt os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1) However, the t of test is escaped by the \, resulting in Notepad trying to open c: est.txt. How do

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
Ivan I get that. My question, cleverly concealed in a rant, was, Why Ivan does clicking on the Documentation link at python.org NOT take me Ivan to docs.python.org? I almost changed that link, but then reconsidered. Compare http://docs.python.org/ with

Re: pyvm -- faster python

2005-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
- hacking SWIG. Shouldn't be too hard and will instantly give us access to wx, qt, etc. Mike You can't assume that because some package is a C/C++ library Mike wrapped for Python that it uses SWIG. pyqt, for example, doesn't Mike use SWIG at all. It uses SIP, which is

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Richie Hindle
[George] b1=c:\test.txt With this code, your problem is the embedded tab as you say. Use either rc:\test.txt or c:\\test.txt. However, if this is true: By the way, b1 comes from a command line parameter, so the user enters c:\test.txt as command line parameter. then there will be no

Re: Finding startup files

2005-05-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-05-11, jeff elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally new to Python (obvious,yes?) so how might argv[0] fail? argv[0] contains whatever is put there by the program that exec'ed you, and can therefore contain just about anything (or nothing). It may not contain a full path, and your

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmysqlclient when building MySQL-Python

2005-05-12 Thread Andy Dustman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm trying to build MySQL-python-1.2.0 on my Linux FC2 (with MySQL 3.23.58). See: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1146226group_id=22307atid=374932 And also try the new 1.2.1c3 release candidate. --

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2005-05-12, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b1=c:\test.txt os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1) However, the t of test is escaped by the \, resulting in Notepad trying to open c: est.txt. There are several ways, but the preferred solution is to switch the slash direction:

Re: pyvm -- faster python

2005-05-12 Thread François Pinard
[Paul Rubin] It's true that CPython doesn't have a compiler and that's a serious deficiency. Hi, Paul. I did not closely follow all of the thread, so maybe my remark below, only repeats what others might have said and I missed? Deep down, why or how not having a [traditional, to-native-code]

Speed of the different python-based HTTP-servers

2005-05-12 Thread Thomas W
I'm thinking of switching from my Twisted-HTTP-server-project to CherryPy or Snakelets etc etc. The project involves alot of database-access using SQLObject and SQLite ( perhaps MySQL and PostgreSQL in the future ) and some heavy IO-stuff ( scanning of local filesystem to extract meta information

Re: urllib download insanity

2005-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
Timothy i DELETED the file from my webserver, uploaded the new Timothy one. when my app logs in it checks the file, if it's changed it Timothy downloads it. the impossible part, is that on my pc is Timothy downloading the OLD file i've deleted! if i download it via IE, Timothy

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:41:14 +0200, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Newbie question: I'm trying to lauch Notepad from Python to open a textfile: import os b1=c:\test.txt os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1) However, the t of test is escaped by the \, resulting in Notepad trying to open c: est.txt.

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread George
Richie Hindle wrote: By the way, b1 comes from a command line parameter, so the user enters c:\test.txt as command line parameter. How are you prompting the user? When I run this: import os b1=raw_input(Enter a filename: ) os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1) and enter c:\test.txt, it

Re: Sleepycat Bsdbd 4.3.27 and Python 2.4.1

2005-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
Marco I've just compiled Python 2.4.1 on a linux box (RHEL 3AS) after Marco having installed Berkeley DB 4.3.27 from sleepycat Software. Marco During the configure/build process python correctly found the Marco BSBDB library. ... Marco File

Re: subclass dialog or put in the resource files?

2005-05-12 Thread flupke
flupke wrote: I'm using wxPython and design the gui via wxglade. One of the gui components is a simple dialog class that gets displayed when a user exits the program. I want to use the same dialog but with a different text for closing certain dialogs in the program. (it's a pure do you

Re: Importing modules

2005-05-12 Thread qwweeeit
Hi Fredrik, thank you for saying that I am ... posting silly assertions. I didn't born Python expert, and I am hardly trying to learn something. I don't like classes but this assertion (silly... I agree) is due to the fact that I don't understand them well (I hope to change mind in a near

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread George
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2005-05-12, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Python really look at the string and mess with the slash? I don't think it needs to, since the Windows system calls have always accepted forward slashses, haven't they? It did, but now not anymore. I

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Bengt Richter
On Thu, 12 May 2005 14:20:29 -, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-05-12, Brian van den Broek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b1=c:\test.txt os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1) However, the t of test is escaped by the \, resulting in Notepad trying to open c: est.txt. There are

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread George
Bengt Richter wrote: On Thu, 12 May 2005 15:41:14 +0200, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (By the way, b1 comes from a command line parameter, so the user enters c:\test.txt as command line parameter.) It should be ok then, unless you have somehow processed the command line parameter and

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
Steven Bethard wrote: Ivan Van Laningham wrote: The Python docs are not ideal. I can never remember, for instance, where to find string methods (not methods in the string module, but methods with '') Hmmm... Well going to http://docs.python.org/ and typing string methods into the search

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
Steven Bethard wrote: Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: Contrast that with Python. First off there is no search mechanism built into the documentation page (yes I know you can google it, but that just doesn't feel right). Um, are you looking at the current documentation page?

How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Ximo
Hello, I want that the return sentence don't return anything, how can I do it?. If i do only return it returns None, and pass don't run too. Can anyone help me?, thanks. XIMO -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Joseph Garvin
Ximo wrote: Hello, I want that the return sentence don't return anything, how can I do it?. If i do only return it returns None, and pass don't run too. Can anyone help me?, thanks. XIMO Returning None is the same as returning nothing. What exactly are you trying to do? --

Creating new StructuredText-like content type for Zope/Plone

2005-05-12 Thread pugnatio
I prefer to use my own text format instead of StructuredText or the like, because I also use emacs outline mode a lot. What would be the best approach for creating this new content type in Zope/Plone? Writing a new Plone product with page templates seems fairly involved, but maybe it's desirable

Re: Interactive shell for demonstration purposes

2005-05-12 Thread Brian Quinlan
Bengt Richter wrote: If you make your console 96 wide and set the font to Lucida Console Bold 24point, it will probably expand to near full screen on 1024x768. You can set the scroll buffer to a couple hundred lines and adjust console widow height to suit. Use the properties from the

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Tim Williams
Ximo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I want that the return sentence don't return anything, how can I do it?. If i do only return it returns None, and pass don't run too. Can anyone help me?, thanks. XIMO Just don't use a return statement at all, or do

Is there a better way to delete the image from a Tkinter button other than the following:

2005-05-12 Thread Casey Hawthorne
Is there a better way to delete the image from a Tkinter button other than the following: - reconstructing the button - image=blank.gif -- Regards, Casey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Ximo
I am doing a interpret of lines and it show me a prompt, and I want if I write a declaration as int a my progrtam return de prompt and nothing more, for exemple: 2+2 4 int a Then I'm finding that de function which execute int a return me nothing, and no int a None Joseph Garvin

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread François Pinard
[Ximo] I want that the return sentence don't return anything, how can I do it? `return' always return something (if we except the case of generators). Used without arguments, it returns None, as you discovered already. If a function falls through its end, None is implicitely returned. A

Re: pyvm -- faster python

2005-05-12 Thread Andrew Dalke
Paul Rubin wrote: Yes, there are several Python compilers already ... It's true that CPython doesn't have a compiler and that's a serious deficiency. A lot of Python language features don't play that well with compilation, and that's often unnecessary. So I hope the baseline

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Corrado Gioannini
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:42:34PM +0100, Tim Williams wrote: Just don't use a return statement at all, or do something like [function body] if not val = None: return val [end of function] i didn't understood that. if you don't return nothing explicitly the function returns None. (or

Re: a cx_Oracle ORA-01036 problem

2005-05-12 Thread Damjan
SQL = insert into D.D_NOTIFY values (:CARDREF, :BANKKEY, :OK1, :OK2 \ :DEBTEUR, :DEBTDEN, to_date(:INVOICE_DATE,'DD.MM.YY'), to_date(:PAYMENT_DEADLINE,'DD.MM.YY'), :POINTS) Try using a variable name other than id for the CARDREF variable... say card_id. id is a built in

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Meyer
Christopher J. Bottaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: because there are no namespaces or classes, but still I think Python could do something similar. Say for instance search for append and it will come back with a page for list's append, a page for array's append, etc. A seperate page for each

Re: Compiling Tcl apps redux

2005-05-12 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Absolutely! Looking at the wiki there are a bunch of solutions, all of which work in specialized circumstances. Nothing like, say the freeze script of Python.

Re: urllib download insanity

2005-05-12 Thread Andrew Dalke
Timothy Smith wrote: ok what i am seeing is impossible. i DELETED the file from my webserver, uploaded the new one. when my app logs in it checks the file, if it's changed it downloads it. the impossible part, is that on my pc is downloading the OLD file i've deleted! if i download it via

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Skip Montanaro
Mike Given that Python hides the difference between user-defined Mike objects and built-in objects, it's not clear to me that anything Mike other than the current system, with all the classes/types in one Mike place, makes sense. Maybe the Module Index should be renamed

Python Polymorphism

2005-05-12 Thread Carlos Moreira
Dear all, How could I use Python polymorphism? Which kind of structures Python give me to use polymorphism? Where can I find specific documentation? Thanks and Best regards. Cadu Moreira __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo!

Re: Unique Elements in a List

2005-05-12 Thread Scott David Daniels
Edvard Majakari wrote: I realized that, but maybe I should've pointed it out too. For the OP if he/she is unaware - notation O(N^2) (big O n squared) means the computing time of the algorithm increases exponentially (where exponent is 2) relative to the size of the input. Normally this is

Debugging python with c++ extensions under windows with eclipse CDT

2005-05-12 Thread peter
Hello all, I would like to debug my python libraries, written in c++, with GDB (gnu debugger) I'm using the mingw compiler in a windows environment. As development environment I use eclipse with the CDT plugin. This plugin also has a nice GUI frontend for the GDB. I've already tried several

Tix hlist and item_exists

2005-05-12 Thread theoryboy
I can't seem to get this function to work. If the item does not exist I get an exception, rather than a return value of false. Here's an example: #!/usr/bin/python from Tix import * root = Tk() listBox = HList(root) item = some item if not listBox.item_exists(item, 0):

Python with MSC.Mentat

2005-05-12 Thread Jeroen Kleijer
Hi all, I'm running into a very strange problem at work. We're using an application called MSC.Mentat (modelling/meshing application) which provides a programmable interface through Python. Because we were told that the Python version they ship is missing some libraries we compiled it ourselves

Re: Finding startup files

2005-05-12 Thread Bernhard Herzog
Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2005-05-11, jeff elkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm totally new to Python (obvious,yes?) so how might argv[0] fail? argv[0] contains whatever is put there by the program that exec'ed you, and can therefore contain just about anything (or

Re: Can get reference of a part of a list?

2005-05-12 Thread Terry Reedy
flyaflya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want make a 2-D array from a list,all elements is references of list's,like this: a = [1,2,3,4] b = [ [1,2], [3,4] ] when change any elements of a, the elements of b will change too, so I can use some function for list to

Re: Speed of the different python-based HTTP-servers

2005-05-12 Thread Irmen de Jong
Thomas W wrote: I don't expect this project to have alot of traffic once online, but it would kinda suck if my software couldn't handle it if it really took off. What would be a lot So my question is; based on the very brief description above, are there any of the python-based

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Terry Reedy
Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe the Module Index should be renamed Module/Type Index and embellished with the builtin types, so that you'd find float (builtin), string (builtin), dict (builtin), etc. in the appropriate alphabetical positions.

Re: Python Polymorphism

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Carlos Moreira wrote: How could I use Python polymorphism? Which kind of structures Python give me to use polymorphism? Where can I find specific documentation? www.python.org (have you read the tutorial?) /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Polymorphism

2005-05-12 Thread Carlos Moreira
--- Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.python.org :-/ (have you read the tutorial?) Are you talking about: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html I fear that doesn't exist one word about polymorphism (in an explicit way). Anyway, I use Python since 2000 year and already use OO

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Bill Mill
On 5/12/05, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skip Montanaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe the Module Index should be renamed Module/Type Index and embellished with the builtin types, so that you'd find float (builtin), string (builtin), dict

Re: Problem combining python code and html

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Hansan wrote: The change did remove the error message, and I can see what was wrong. However there is now a new problem, the only thing that is displayed is one single character and that is: Do you or anyone else have a suggestion to what the cause to this new problem is ? my fault; I

Re: Launch file in Notepad

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Brian van den Broek wrote: I'm trying to lauch Notepad from Python to open a textfile: import os b1=c:\test.txt os.system('notepad.exe ' + b1) However, the t of test is escaped by the \, resulting in Notepad trying to open c: est.txt. How do I solve this? There are several

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Ximo
I am doing my own interpreter with the Python languaje. Do you understand me? Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ximo wrote: I am doing a interpret of lines and it show me a prompt, and I want if I write a declaration as int a my progrtam return

Re: Python Documentation (should be better?)

2005-05-12 Thread Steven Bethard
Skip Montanaro wrote: Mike Given that Python hides the difference between user-defined Mike objects and built-in objects, it's not clear to me that anything Mike other than the current system, with all the classes/types in one Mike place, makes sense. Maybe the Module Index

Re: win32com Dispatch() and SetPriorityClass()

2005-05-12 Thread Roger Upole
The ie object exposes its window handle as attribute HWND, and you should be able to use win32process.GetWindowThreadProcessId to get the thread id and process id that created the window. hth Roger Chris Curvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] if I'm using

Re: How return no return ?

2005-05-12 Thread Bill Mill
On 5/12/05, Ximo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing my own interpreter with the Python languaje. Do you understand me? Well, to be frank, no. However, Frederik's point still stands; in the python langage, int a is syntactically invalid. If you're writing your own interpreter, it should still

Re: Importing modules

2005-05-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another item (for me...) difficult, is import modules, and plenty of information (as you said) does not help me much: the mechanism of variable visibility and namespaces is not clear to me. have you read this http://effbot.org/zone/python-objects.htm and

bash like expansion

2005-05-12 Thread bill
Consider the following: import os, commands os.environ['QWE']=string with foo a = '$QWE ${QWE/foo/baz}' b = commands.getoutput('echo ' + a) This does what I want, which is to expand a according to the standard bash expansion rules (so b now references string with foo string with baz), but it

Re: Python Documentation (vs PHP stuff)

2005-05-12 Thread Paul Rubin
Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my experience, the user comments in many cases are almost useless. Sometimes just confusing, sometimes contradicting each other, sometimes even incorrect. Sometimes correct and useful too, but IMO that gets drown between all the others. One thing

Re: working directory for debugging in pythonwin

2005-05-12 Thread Colin J. Williams
Thomas Pfaff wrote: Hello all, I started using the nice Pythonwin IDE together with Python 2.3 (I have come to prefer its editor to IDLE). My problem is, that when I want to run a script in the debugger, I can give the script name and arguments, but I can't tell it in which directory it

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