Re: ntvdm problem on win2k

2005-04-09 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 11:00:08 -0700, Al Christians wrote: > I started having some problems running python programs (python 2.3) from > the Win2k command line. I would get crashes with an NTVDM error. Windows tries to execute the cygwin symbolic link and fails. Correcting your path works (as you

Re: unicode encoding usablilty problem

2005-02-19 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:43:52 +0100, Thomas Heller wrote: >> Eventually, the primary string type should be the Unicode >> string. If you are curious how far we are still off that goal, >> just try running your program with the -U option. > > Not very far - can't even call functions ;-) > def

Re: limited python virtual machine (WAS: Another scripting language implemented into Python itself?)

2005-01-26 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:08:01 +0100, I wrote: sys.safecall(func, maxcycles=1000) > could enter the safe mode and call the func. This might be even enhanced like this: >>> import sys >>> sys.safecall(func, maxcycles=1000, allowed_domains=['file-IO', 'net-IO', 'devices', 'gui'

Re: limited python virtual machine (WAS: Another scripting language implemented into Python itself?)

2005-01-25 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:22:13 -0700, Steven Bethard wrote: > >>This is a serious issue. > >> > >>It's also one that brings Tcl, mentioned several > >>times in this thread, back into focus. Tcl presents > >>the notion of "safe interpreter", that is, a sub- > >>ordinate virtual machine which c

Re: OT: MoinMoin and Mediawiki?

2005-01-12 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On 11 Jan 2005 21:24:51 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: [backlinks] >> Searching instead of indexing makes it very resilient :-) > > How does it do that? It has to scan every page in the entire wiki?! > That's totally impractical for a large wiki. So you want to say that c2 is not a large wiki? :-) K

Re: OT: MoinMoin and Mediawiki?

2005-01-11 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On 11 Jan 2005 08:49:52 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Alexander Schremmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I need to set up a wiki for a small group. I've played with MoinMoin >>> a little bit and it's reasonably straightforward to set up, but

Re: OT: MoinMoin and Mediawiki?

2005-01-11 Thread Alexander Schremmer
On 10 Jan 2005 18:45:16 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > I need to set up a wiki for a small group. I've played with MoinMoin > a little bit and it's reasonably straightforward to set up, but > limited in capabilities and uses BogusMarkupConventions. At which point do you see limitations? And what of