Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: Daniel Stojanov daniel.st...@gmail.com writes: 2) I just signed up the this mailing list. Welcome! Feel free to engage and/or begin some Python-related threads :-) To the regulars, is this what normally happens on this list? This is an

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of persistent nuisances, and those who respond with the maturity level and impulse control of an average six-year-old. […] And what about

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 04:30, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:24:35 +1000, Daniel Stojanov wrote: 2) I just signed up the this mailing list. To the regulars, is this what normally happens on this list? No. 3) I'm a bit late to the party. Is Nikos a real sysadmin or is this some

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of persistent nuisances, and those who respond with the maturity

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
Ravi Sahni ganeshsahn...@gmail.com writes: So Ben,Antoon you are saying that [demands for off-topic help with demonstrated history of unwillingness to learn] is a minor problem […] Whereas [baiting and enabling that behaviour is] a bigger problem??! (I edited the above to focus on behaviour,

How to manage Git or Mercurial repositories

2013-10-02 Thread Andriy Kornatskyy
Managing version control repositories can be a challenge in multi-user environment especially when simplification of user collaboration is your goal. There are usually two primary concerns while considering enterprise deployment for version control repositories: access control and safety of

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:49:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of persistent nuisances, and those who respond with the maturity level and impulse

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/10/2013 07:51, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 02-10-13 04:30, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 00:24:35 +1000, Daniel Stojanov wrote: 2) I just signed up the this mailing list. To the regulars, is this what normally happens on this list? No. 3) I'm a bit late to the party. Is

Mutual respect, bullying, tolerance (was: JUST GOT HACKED)

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
Steven D'Aprano st...@pearwood.info writes: Well that's a shame, and I think that your comment here is incompatible with your previous approval of the PSF Diversity Statement. We should tolerate people, but we should not tolerate their bad behaviour. The Diversity Statement includes the

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Ravi Sahni ganeshsahn...@gmail.com writes: So Ben,Antoon you are saying that [demands for off-topic help with demonstrated history of unwillingness to learn] is a minor problem […] Whereas [baiting and enabling

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 09:02, Ravi Sahni schreef: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of persistent nuisances,

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 03:36, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:27:22 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: People pay for some kind of guaranteed uptime. You have *no idea* what sort of contract Nikos has with his customers. Nor do you know have any idea what fees he charges. For all we know,

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-02 Thread Alain Ketterlin
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu writes: Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost trivial, once you know the secret of the two easy steps. Here it is. Assume that you have already done the work of turning a

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-02 Thread Alain Ketterlin
rusi rustompm...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 3:00:41 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost trivial, once you know the secret of the two easy steps.

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 4:36 πμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:27:22 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: People pay for some kind of guaranteed uptime. You have *no idea* what sort of contract Nikos has with his customers. Nor do you know have any idea what fees he charges. For all we

Re: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xb6 in position 0: invalid start byte

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 10:23 πμ, ο/η Antoon Pardon έγραψε: Op 02-10-13 03:36, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:27:22 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: People pay for some kind of guaranteed uptime. You have *no idea* what sort of contract Nikos has with his customers. Nor do you know have

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Becker
On 01/10/2013 18:26, MRAB wrote: On 01/10/2013 17:41, Robin Becker wrote: .. I've tried it in a minimal console program, and it seems to work for me. thanks for the test. I thought this might be an issue with the macro call argument being spread out over several lines, but since

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:32:57 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: I find this real confused!! Why they are answering then?!?! As far as I can make out everyone who is answering (helping!) doing it frustratation and disgust. But still they keep answering and answering!! Makes no sense If you want to

hg.python.org: Server unresponsive and timeout

2013-10-02 Thread Tae Wong
This post is irrelevant from using Python; so it's an Internet server problem. When you try to connect to hg.python.org, the connection takes forever. How to fix this server issue? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Becker
On 02/10/2013 10:00, Robin Becker wrote: On 01/10/2013 18:26, MRAB wrote: On 01/10/2013 17:41, Robin Becker wrote: .. I've tried it in a minimal console program, and it seems to work for me. thanks for the test. I thought this might be an issue with the macro call argument being

Lowest Value in List

2013-10-02 Thread subhabangalore
Dear Group, I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python. The Problem: Suppose I have three lists. Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. I have to construct one list having 10 elements which are of the lowest value among these 30 elements present in the

Re: python function parameters, debugging, comments, etc.

2013-10-02 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 2 October 2013 00:45, Rotwang sg...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: So the upside of duck-typing is clear. But as you've already discovered, so is the downside: Python's dynamic nature means that there's no way for the interpreter to know what kind of arguments a function will accept, and so a user

Re: Lowest Value in List

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:04:16 -0700, subhabangalore wrote: Dear Group, I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python. The Problem: Suppose I have three lists. Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. I have to construct one list having 10 elements which

Re: I haev fixed it

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 5:35 πμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:54:32 +0300, Νίκος wrote: How did this happened i asked. I must know how did this happen so i take action to prevent it from happening again. If I recall, some of your haters (Mark Lawrence, Antoon Pardon and Chris

Re: hg.python.org: Server unresponsive and timeout

2013-10-02 Thread Ben Finney
Tae Wong seotaewon...@gmail.com writes: When you try to connect to hg.python.org, the connection takes forever. (Note that this is the community discussion forum for the Python langauge; it is perhaps not the best forum to report problems with python.org infrastructure.) What client are you

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 10:29 πμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:49:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of persistent nuisances, and those

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize though oif some times i loose my temper and use impoprer vocabulary on some people. The pressure is just too high at some point when i see so many people critisize and make ironic comments agianst me all the time in

Re: Lowest Value in List

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 12:04, subhabangal...@gmail.com schreef: Dear Group, I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python. The Problem: Suppose I have three lists. Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. I have to construct one list having 10 elements which are

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 1:32 μμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize though oif some times i loose my temper and use impoprer vocabulary on some people. The pressure is just too high at some point when i see so many people critisize

Efficency help for a Calculator Program

2013-10-02 Thread JonDoe297
You may remember me from this : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.python/PIkUno3avkw I need help to increase the efficiency of this code : global repeat repeat=1 def main(): c=int(raw_input(How many numbers do you want to work? (Min. 2 Max. 3) )) if c==2:

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 2/10/2013 06:01, Robin Becker wrote: On 02/10/2013 10:00, Robin Becker wrote: On 01/10/2013 18:26, MRAB wrote: On 01/10/2013 17:41, Robin Becker wrote: .. I've tried it in a minimal console program, and it seems to work for me. thanks for the test. I thought this might be an

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Just bare with me and you will see improving over time. Tip: Start with this one... the word you want is 'bear'. In English, those two words have very different meanings, even though they're pronounced the same way; bare with me

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
zero piraeus have said: In other words: you weren't hacked. You'd been repeatedly told that you had publicly visible source code on the net containing passwords in plain text; all anyone had to do was login to your server with the credentials you negligently exposed, and open a text editor. If

Re: Efficency help for a Calculator Program

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, JonDoe297 vignesh.harikris...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to make it smaller? It does it's job, but I want it to look smaller, more efficient. Yes, it is, but let me first clarify something: Smaller and more efficient are two quite different concepts.

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 1:54 μμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Just bare with me and you will see improving over time. Tip: Start with this one... the word you want is 'bear'. In English, those two words have very different meanings, even

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 1:54 μμ, ο/η Chris Angelico έγραψε: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Just bare with me and you will see improving over time. Tip: Start with this one... the word you want is 'bear'. In English, those two words have very different meanings, even

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: All i can say its that my visitor's websites are working smoothly and the DNS, Mail issues and Python experiments are happening to my personal account, i don't mess at all with my client's data and their settings. But when you

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 11:08, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:32:57 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: I find this real confused!! Why they are answering then?!?! As far as I can make out everyone who is answering (helping!) doing it frustratation and disgust. But still they keep answering and

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Becker
On 02/10/2013 11:49, Dave Angel wrote: conditional string or then MSVC 9 seems to be ok with it. MSVC and other compilers do not not see eye to eye on the preprocessor semantics. I no longer use MSVC so I can't experiment. I can only try to recall extensive manipulation two decades ago. I

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Heiko Wundram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 02.10.2013 13:03, schrieb Νίκος: I have to make some money and that needs for some reason to happen now as we speak, so i have no alternative than to hop into a car and learn to drive during the process, hoping i will not bang-smash the car.

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread feedthetroll
Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2013 12:52:39 UTC+2 schrieb Ferrous Cranus: ... By the way: if you haven't already, you'll want to remove the extra line from your .htaccess file. Tell me the line you are referring to. I think it will be the line YOU did NOT enter. Just take a look yourself. The best

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 2:42 μμ, ο/η feedthetr...@gmx.de έγραψε: Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2013 12:52:39 UTC+2 schrieb Ferrous Cranus: ... By the way: if you haven't already, you'll want to remove the extra line from your .htaccess file. Tell me the line you are referring to. I think it will be the

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 2/10/2013 07:28, Robin Becker wrote: The actual is this code from _renderPM.c https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/fa65fe72b6c2aaecb7747bf14884adb996d8e87f/src/rl_addons/renderPM/_renderPM.c?at=default PyDoc_STRVAR(__DOC__, Helper extension module for renderPM.\n\ \n\ Interface

Re: Stop posting HTML [was Re: I haev fixed it]

2013-10-02 Thread Dave Angel
On 1/10/2013 23:33, Michael Torrie wrote: On 10/01/2013 08:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 22:02:36 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Joel, you've been asked repeatedly to please stop

Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Tim delaney said: Because there's no chance with the brilliance you display that there could be any possibility of login details being kept in plaintext in your database. And of course your database is so well locked down that no attacker with a login to it could then execute arbitrary code

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-02 Thread random832
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013, at 17:30, Terry Reedy wrote: Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost trivial, once you know the secret of the two easy steps. Here it is. That should be a reason it _does_ do it -

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 14:20, Νίκος schreef: Tim delaney said: Because there's no chance with the brilliance you display that there could be any possibility of login details being kept in plaintext in your database. And of course your database is so well locked down that no attacker with a login to

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread feedthetroll
Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2013 14:20:00 UTC+2 schrieb Ferrous Cranus: ... Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux server? ... If yes, can you give an example please? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mysql+shell+escape Please, serious replies

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Tim Delaney timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 October 2013 09:28, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: con = pymysql.connect( db = 'mypass', user = 'myuser', passwd = 'mysqlpass', charset = 'utf8', host = 'localhost' ) That was viewable by the link Mark

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:42:32 -0700, feedthetroll wrote: Learning for personal pleasure and business server can't be true both. Utter nonsense. Some people are fortunate enough to be paid to do something that gives them pleasure. Many programmers and system administrators are in that lucky

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread ishish
Am 02.10.2013 13:47, schrieb Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Tim Delaney timothy.c.dela...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 October 2013 09:28, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: con = pymysql.connect( db = 'mypass', user = 'myuser', passwd = 'mysqlpass', charset = 'utf8',

Re: Lowest Value in List

2013-10-02 Thread dvghana
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 10:04:16 AM UTC, subhaba...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python. The Problem: Suppose I have three lists. Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. I have to construct

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 14:03:25 +0300, Νίκος wrote: I have to make some money and that needs for some reason to happen now as we speak, so i have no alternative than to hop into a car and learn to drive during the process, hoping i will not bang-smash the car. Yes you have alternatives. You have

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 02-10-13 14:51, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:42:32 -0700, feedthetroll wrote: Learning for personal pleasure and business server can't be true both. Utter nonsense. Some people are fortunate enough to be paid to do something that gives them pleasure. Many

Re: Killing threads with TB (was: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?)

2013-10-02 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-10-02 05:38, feedthetr...@gmx.de wrote: (Hey Thunderbird has a very useful new feature. Ignore thread.) Unfortunately, as of when I last tested it, it only works in the newsgroup part of TB, not the mail portion of TB. Sadly, Claws-Mail (my current mailer) doesn't have a native

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:28:11 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: Op 02-10-13 11:08, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:32:57 +0530, Ravi Sahni wrote: I find this real confused!! Why they are answering then?!?! As far as I can make out everyone who is answering (helping!) doing it

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-10-02 13:43, Νίκος wrote: 2. Still feel that that the solution provided to me doesn't meet my needs and should have been re-written in a different way. This is part of the trouble people had recently in the IP-address/default-value thread. Python has what folks here call a pythonic

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-02 Thread rusi
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 1:53:46 PM UTC+5:30, Alain Ketterlin wrote: rusi writes: On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 3:00:41 AM UTC+5:30, Terry Reedy wrote: Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux server? Yes, it is possible. Okey he uses the password and he gain access to the databases, then what? MySQL is a database server how can he

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 4:12 μμ, ο/η Antoon Pardon έγραψε: Op 02-10-13 14:51, Steven D'Aprano schreef: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:42:32 -0700, feedthetroll wrote: Learning for personal pleasure and business server can't be true both. Utter nonsense. Some people are fortunate enough to be paid to do

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 08:31:25 -0400, random832 wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013, at 17:30, Terry Reedy wrote: Part of the reason that Python does not do tail call optimization is that turning tail recursion into while iteration is almost trivial, once you know the secret of the two easy steps. Here

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:42:32 -0700, feedthetroll wrote: Learning for personal pleasure and business server can't be true both. Utter nonsense. Some people are fortunate enough to be paid to do

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-10-02, Ravi Sahni ganeshsahn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: And what about the impuls control and the maturity of people who

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux server? Yes, it is possible. Is that what might have happened and someone managed to

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread Robin Becker
On 02/10/2013 13:05, Dave Angel wrote: On 2/10/2013 07:28, Robin Becker wrote: The actual is this code from _renderPM.c https://bitbucket.org/rptlab/reportlab/src/fa65fe72b6c2aaecb7747bf14884adb996d8e87f/src/rl_addons/renderPM/_renderPM.c?at=default at the end of the lines etc

Re: Efficency help for a Calculator Program

2013-10-02 Thread JonDoe297
On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:31:03 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, JonDoe297 wrote: Is there any way to make it smaller? It does it's job, but I want it to look smaller, more efficient. Yes, it is, but let me first clarify something: Smaller and

Re: python function parameters, debugging, comments, etc.

2013-10-02 Thread Rotwang
On 02/10/2013 11:15, Oscar Benjamin wrote: On 2 October 2013 00:45, Rotwang sg...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: So the upside of duck-typing is clear. But as you've already discovered, so is the downside: Python's dynamic nature means that there's no way for the interpreter to know what kind of

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 10/2/13 9:41 AM, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux server? Yes, it is possible. Is that what might have

Re: I haev fixed it

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/10/2013 00:28, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 1:57 πμ, ο/η Mark Lawrence έγραψε: On 01/10/2013 23:46, Νίκος wrote: If only there was a log file that could show the connection made by the hacker's host, so to post it here. I'd write a serious letter of complaint to all of your customers

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be wrote: Op 02-10-13 09:02, Ravi Sahni schreef: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef:

Re: Tail recursion to while iteration in 2 easy steps

2013-10-02 Thread random832
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013, at 9:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Python is not as aggressively functional as (say) Haskell, but it is surely an exaggeration to suggest that the failure to include tail call optimization means that Python rejects functional programming styles. You can still write you

Re: Lowest Value in List

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 3:34 PM, subhabangal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Group, I am trying to work out a solution to the following problem in Python. The Problem: Suppose I have three lists. Each list is having 10 elements in ascending order. I have to construct one list having 10 elements

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος
Στις 2/10/2013 4:58 μμ, ο/η Ned Batchelder έγραψε: On 10/2/13 9:41 AM, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Alister
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:41:40 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux server? Yes, it is possible. Is

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread ishish
Am 02.10.2013 15:46, schrieb Νίκος: But i need to know what happened and how this .html file got uploaded. This is not a python question, but this happened from this pythons NG. ... ... Who says that?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Rod Person
On 10/2/2013 9:30 AM, Νίκος wrote: You learn and you are forced to solve problems better when you deal with real time problems. https://tinyurl.com/44teepw -- Rod The guide of millers uses only the finest grains: true Roman breads, for true Romans. --

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Ned Batchelder
On 10/2/13 10:46 AM, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:58 μμ, ο/η Ned Batchelder έγραψε: On 10/2/13 9:41 AM, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to

Re: PyDoc_STRVAR error in msvc compile

2013-10-02 Thread MRAB
On 02/10/2013 12:28, Robin Becker wrote: On 02/10/2013 11:49, Dave Angel wrote: conditional string or then MSVC 9 seems to be ok with it. MSVC and other compilers do not not see eye to eye on the preprocessor semantics. I no longer use MSVC so I can't experiment. I can only try to recall

Running code from source that includes extension modules

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Schwarz
Hi I've just started looking into distutils because I need to write an extension module in C (for performance reasons) and distutils seems to be the most straight-forward way. I've had success building a C file into a Python extension module using python setup.py build but I am wondering what

Re: I haev fixed it

2013-10-02 Thread Denis McMahon
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:01:31 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: I want a full apology to this entire group now for your behaviour, and a very specific formal apology to myself for your completely unfounded allegations. I expect to see this by 23:59 2nd October 2013 BST. Honestly? Or you'll do what?

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Denis McMahon
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:22:25 +0300, Νίκος wrote: I was even mocked because all i wanted to do was to optimize code and use the best solution there is to it. No. You were mocked because you insisted that your broken one line code was a better looking solution than anyone elses working multi

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Denis McMahon
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:46:08 +0300, Νίκος wrote: But i need to know what happened and how this .html file got uploaded. The html file started out in an editor on on another machine, and was created by someone typing at the keyboard. It was then saved to hard disk as a file. The other machine

Re: I haev fixed it

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 02/10/2013 16:48, Denis McMahon wrote: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:01:31 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote: I want a full apology to this entire group now for your behaviour, and a very specific formal apology to myself for your completely unfounded allegations. I expect to see this by 23:59 2nd

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-10-02, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: When I kill-file somebody, I tell them, and I always make it temporary. This is not a matter of elitism, it is a matter of responding to bad behaviour and sending a message that it is inappropriate -- if you behave

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Alister alister.w...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:41:40 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread rurpy
On 10/01/2013 08:24 AM, Daniel Stojanov wrote: On 02/10/2013 12:05 AM, Νίκος nikos.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for visting my website: you help me increase my google page rank without actually utilizing SEO. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list 1) You need links,

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread rurpy
On 10/02/2013 01:02 AM, Ravi Sahni wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated forum, so we have occasional spates of persistent

Rounding off Values of dicts (in a list) to 2 decimal points

2013-10-02 Thread tripsvt
am trying to round off values in a dict to 2 decimal points but have been unsuccessful so far. The input I have is like this: y = [{'a': 80.0, 'b': 0.0786235, 'c': 10.0, 'd': 10.6742903}, {'a': 80.73246, 'b': 0.0, 'c': 10.780323, 'd': 10.0}, {'a': 80.7239, 'b': 0.7823640, 'c': 10.0, 'd':

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος Ακεξόπουλος
Στις 2/10/2013 6:13 μμ, ο/η Ravi Sahni έγραψε: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Alister alister.w...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:41:40 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for

Re: Rounding off Values of dicts (in a list) to 2 decimal points

2013-10-02 Thread Skip Montanaro
def roundingVals_toTwoDeci(): global y for d in y: for k, v in d.items(): v = ceil(v*100)/100.0 return roundingVals_toTwoDeci() But it is not working - I am still getting the old values. You're not assigning the rounded value

Re: Running code from source that includes extension modules

2013-10-02 Thread Gisle Vanem
Michael Schwarz michi.schw...@gmail.com wrote: So how do I run my code so it will find the built extension module? Do I pass the output directory on the command line manually or is there some other solution? I would like to still be able to run the code from the source directory as I'm using

Re: Rounding off Values of dicts (in a list) to 2 decimal points

2013-10-02 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
trip...@gmail.com writes: am trying to round off values in a dict to 2 decimal points but have been unsuccessful so far. The input I have is like this: y = [{'a': 80.0, 'b': 0.0786235, 'c': 10.0, 'd': 10.6742903}, {'a': 80.73246, 'b': 0.0, 'c': 10.780323, 'd': 10.0}, {'a':

Re: Rounding off Values of dicts (in a list) to 2 decimal points

2013-10-02 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:01 PM, trip...@gmail.com wrote: am trying to round off values in a dict to 2 decimal points but have been unsuccessful so far. The input I have is like this: y = [{'a': 80.0, 'b': 0.0786235, 'c': 10.0, 'd': 10.6742903}, {'a': 80.73246, 'b': 0.0, 'c':

Re: Rounding off Values of dicts (in a list) to 2 decimal points

2013-10-02 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2013-10-02, trip...@gmail.com trip...@gmail.com wrote: am trying to round off values in a dict to 2 decimal points but have been unsuccessful so far. The input I have is like this: y = [{'a': 80.0, 'b': 0.0786235, 'c': 10.0, 'd': 10.6742903}, {'a': 80.73246, 'b': 0.0, 'c':

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:41:40 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary code on a linux server? Yes, it is possible. Is

ANN: rom 0.21 - Redis object mapper for Python

2013-10-02 Thread Josiah Carlson
Hey everyone, As time progresses, so does my Redis object mapper. The rom package is a Redis object mapper for Python. It sports an interface similar to Django's ORM, SQLAlchemy + Elixir, or Appengine's datastore. The changelog for recent releases can be seen below my signature. You can find

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/02/2013 07:46 AM, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:58 μμ, ο/η Ned Batchelder έγραψε: As others have said in this thread, this is not a Python topic. Find another forum for this question. Do not ask it here again. You've said that you can improve. Show us by not asking non-Python

Re: Can arbitrary code run in a server if someone's know just the MySQL password?

2013-10-02 Thread Νίκος Αλεξόπουλος
Στις 2/10/2013 8:39 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:41:40 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Στις 2/10/2013 4:25 μμ, ο/η Steven D'Aprano έγραψε: On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:20:00 +0300, Νίκος wrote: Is it possible for someone that knows the MYSQL password of a server to run arbitrary

Re: JUST GOT HACKED

2013-10-02 Thread Ravi Sahni
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:14 PM, ru...@yahoo.com wrote: On 10/02/2013 01:02 AM, Ravi Sahni wrote: On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Antoon Pardon antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be writes: Op 02-10-13 00:06, Ben Finney schreef: This is an unmoderated

Re: Running code from source that includes extension modules

2013-10-02 Thread Michael Schwarz
On 2013-W40-3, at 19:15, Gisle Vanem gva...@yahoo.no wrote: Michael Schwarz michi.schw...@gmail.com wrote: So how do I run my code so it will find the built extension module? Do I pass the output directory on the command line manually or is there some other solution? I would like to still

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