Re: Anomaly in time.clock()

2008-03-21 Thread Godzilla
Just found out that win32api.GetTickCount() returns a tick count in milli-second since XP started. Not sure whether that is reliable. Anyone uses that for calculating elapsed time? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Anomaly in time.clock()

2008-03-20 Thread Godzilla
Thanks Ross and John for your help. I apologise for the code I posted earlier not being the full picture of what I was trying to achieve. I had instantiated multiple instances of elapseTime class and each of them gets called approximately the same time. Below is the updated code: import time

Re: Anomaly in time.clock()

2008-03-19 Thread Godzilla
Hi John, I am using time.clock to calculate the elapsed time. Below is an example of what I was trying to do: import time import thread class elapseTime: def __init__(self, name=''): self.name = name self.timeStamp = None self.checkTimeFlag = False

Re: Anomaly in time.clock()

2008-03-18 Thread Godzilla
Thanks Roel. If there is a way to pass in the PRESERVE_PRECISION constant in the python time.clock library, that would be great. But I'm afraid it's not possible. I think I will change away from using time.clock() from now on... seems too edgy to me. Thank you for sharing your experience with me

Anomaly in time.clock()

2008-03-17 Thread Godzilla
Hello, I have been reading a thread about time.clock() going backward, which is exactly what I am seeing... the thread generally leaning toward the problem is caused by multi-processor machines. But I am seeing it at a single CPU computer, and running XP. The error I am seeing between two very

Re: Memory leak when creating lots of object

2007-08-16 Thread Godzilla
On Aug 16, 1:13 am, Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14 Aug, 05:57, Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a program that create and pop an object off a queue, but it is experiencing some memory leakage. I have been unable to detect where the memory leakage occur

Memory leak when creating lots of object

2007-08-13 Thread Godzilla
Hello, I have a program that create and pop an object off a queue, but it is experiencing some memory leakage. I have been unable to detect where the memory leakage occur. The strange thing is when i replace the object creation with a plain integer/string, the leak goes away... Here's the code I

Deleting objects on the fly

2007-08-09 Thread Godzilla
Hello, I wish to know whether I should delete objects created on the fly via the del obj statement. I noticed the RAM usage increased whenever the application is being run for a long time. I am creating lots of objects (messages) on the fly for communication between threads. Rather than having

Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-12 Thread Godzilla
Hello, I'm trying to find a way to convert an integer (8-bits long for starters) and converting them to a list, e.g.: num = 255 numList = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] with the first element of the list being the least significant, so that i can keep appending to that list without having to worry about the

Re: Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-12 Thread Godzilla
On Jul 13, 9:54 am, Matimus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 12, 3:34 pm, Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to find a way to convert an integer (8-bits long for starters) and converting them to a list, e.g.: num = 255 numList = [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1] with the first

Re: Fastest way to convert a byte of integer into a list

2007-07-12 Thread Godzilla
On Jul 13, 11:13 am, bsneddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 12, 8:49 pm, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 13, 10:28 am, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: num = 255 numlist = [num i 1 for i in range(8)] Thanks matimus

how to use cx_Oracle callfunc

2007-05-10 Thread Godzilla
Hi all, I need to know how to use the method callfunc in cx_Oracle. I am trying to get a primary key after an insert via a function call, but I do not know how to pass the return value from the function via the callfunc method. Can anyone help? I also tried the execute(), and callproc(), but to

Re: how to use cx_Oracle callfunc

2007-05-10 Thread Godzilla
On May 11, 11:51 am, Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need to know how to use the method callfunc in cx_Oracle. I am trying to get a primary key after an insert via a function call, but I do not know how to pass the return value from the function via the callfunc method. Can

Re: Queue get timeout parameter question

2007-04-10 Thread Godzilla
On Apr 10, 2:20 pm, Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the time sync, say 15 seconds backward, the thread is sitting on that get() method for a total of 17 seconds. We can only sync the device once per day and the time can drift up to 15

Re: Queue get timeout parameter question

2007-04-10 Thread Godzilla
On Apr 10, 5:38 pm, Thomas Krüger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla schrieb: I have been using the queue module for a multithreaded environment and things seem to work well... until we had a requirement for the application to be able to time sync to the server. With the time sync

Queue get timeout parameter question

2007-04-09 Thread Godzilla
Dear all, I have been using the queue module for a multithreaded environment and things seem to work well... until we had a requirement for the application to be able to time sync to the server. With the time sync, it actually disorientated the timeout in the queue's get() method... e.g.

Create new processes over telnet in XP

2007-03-23 Thread Godzilla
Hello, How do you create/spawn new processes in XP over telnet using python? I.e. I would like to create a new process and have it running in the background... when I terminate the telnet connection, I would what the spawned processes to keep running until I shut it off... I got the os.popen

Re: Create new processes over telnet in XP

2007-03-23 Thread Godzilla
On Mar 24, 12:57 am, Rob Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla wrote: Hello, How do you create/spawn new processes in XP over telnet using python? I.e. I would like to create a new process and have it running in the background... when I terminate the telnet connection, I would what

Re: Create new processes over telnet in XP

2007-03-23 Thread Godzilla
On Mar 24, 12:57 am, Rob Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla wrote: Hello, How do you create/spawn new processes in XP over telnet using python? I.e. I would like to create a new process and have it running in the background... when I terminate the telnet connection, I would what

Python Oracle 10g odbc blob insertion problem

2007-03-22 Thread Godzilla
Dear all, I cannot find a solution for my problem with inserting a blob object (4000 in length) into an ORACLE database via ODBC. I have tried the two ways of inserting the blob object (a zip file): 1) fp = open(c:/test/test.zip, r+b) data = fp.read() s = odbc.odbc(cs) qry = s.cursor()

Re: Python Oracle 10g odbc blob insertion problem

2007-03-22 Thread Godzilla
On Mar 22, 10:56 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla wrote: Dear all, I cannot find a solution for my problem with inserting a blob object (4000 in length) into an ORACLE database via ODBC. I have tried the two ways of inserting the blob object (a zip file): 1) fp

Re: Python Oracle 10g odbc blob insertion problem

2007-03-22 Thread Godzilla
On Mar 23, 4:38 am, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Mar 2007 05:36:46 -0700, Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Steve, I think I've tried what you have suggested without any luck as well... The statement works fine, but what inserted

Re: Python Oracle 10g odbc blob insertion problem

2007-03-22 Thread Godzilla
On Mar 23, 4:38 am, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Mar 2007 05:36:46 -0700, Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Steve, I think I've tried what you have suggested without any luck as well... The statement works fine, but what inserted

Re: Python Oracle 10g odbc blob insertion problem

2007-03-22 Thread Godzilla
On Mar 23, 9:50 am, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Godzilla wrote: On Mar 23, 4:38 am, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Mar 2007 05:36:46 -0700, Godzilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: Steve, I think I've tried what you have

Python on WinXP Embedded

2006-01-11 Thread Godzilla
Has anyone install Python on Windows XP Embedded? We wish to evaluate the possible solution of installing Python with WinXPE on a PC/104 plus module. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python on WinXP Embedded

2006-01-11 Thread Godzilla
Hello rtilley, thanks for replying so soon. I wish to install WinXP Embedded on a PC/104 module and install Python on WinXP Embedded, not WinPE... The hardware which is to be acquired is about a celeron 400MHz but we just not sure how well Python will work under WinXPE... --