Python dot-equals (syntax proposal)

2010-04-30 Thread Jabapyth
At least a few times a day I wish python had the following shortcut syntax: vbl.=func(args) this would be equivalent to vbl = vbl.func(args) example: foo = "Hello world" foo.=split(" ") print foo # ['Hello', 'world'] and I guess you could generalize this to vbl.=[some text] # vbl = vbl.[some

Re: urllib.urlopen

2005-12-18 Thread JabaPyth
Thanks, guys. I tried on a different computer, and it worked fine.I then found out that my computer thyought i had a proxy server, and after i cleaned that up, it worked. Thanks again -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: urllib.urlopen

2005-12-17 Thread JabaPyth
I tried using urllib2 and this is what i got: >>import urllib2 >>the_url = 'http://www.google.com' >>req = urllib2.Request(the_url) >>handle = urllib2.urlopen(req) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen return _opener

urllib.urlopen

2005-12-17 Thread JabaPyth
Hello, I'm trying to use the urllib module, but when i try urllib.urlopen, it gives me a socket error: >>import urllib >>print urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com/').read() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib.py", line