Re: Would there be work for a sysadmin who specializes in python?

2009-08-25 Thread Brent Bloxam
walterbyrd wrote: If I took the time to really learn to use python for sysadmin work, would I be able to find jobs, or even contract jobs? From what I am seeing on the job boards etc., I would have to say no. It looks to me as though I could possibly do that with perl, but not python. Of cour

Re: extracting plain text from RTF-file ?

2009-04-07 Thread Brent Bloxam
Stef Mientki wrote: hello, I'm looking for a library to extract plain text from RTF-files. I found these only RTF generation http://pyrtf.sourceforge.net/ should be able to parse, but no download files http://code.google.com/p/pyrtf-ng/ any suggestions ? thanks, Stef Mientki -- http://mail.p

Re: Executing a C program from Python

2009-04-06 Thread Brent Bloxam
vishakha vaibhav wrote: Hi, I am very new to python. I have my cgi script written in Python. My CGI script should call a C program and collect the value returned by this program and pass it to the browser. Can anyone help me out in this. How can I execute the c program and collect the return

Re: Delicious API and urllib2

2009-04-06 Thread Brent Bloxam
Bill wrote: The delicious api requires http authorization (actually https). A generic delicious api post url is "https:// username:passw...@api.api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/add?url=http:// example.com/&description=interesting&tags=whatever". This works fine when entered in the Firefox address bar. H

Re: Sending SMS using python script

2009-04-02 Thread Brent Bloxam
le.com/p/mmsmsd/ (it's BSD licensed) If you go this route, feel free to submit any bug reports or requests. If anyone out there feels like doing a quick audit of the code, that would be appreciated as well :) This is my first project with Python. -- | .-> brent bloxam ~-.