creating a python program to control the cursor and click a location on the screen at specified delay interval?

2010-01-21 Thread John Haggerty
HiSo just testing the feasibility of doing this but I was interested in creating a primitive way of scripting gui applications w/o using a remote network client by having the application up and then almost just using the pointer position to figure out where it is and then click it and any

Re: Persistent Distributed Objects

2009-10-11 Thread John Haggerty
Does pyro work inside of stackless? On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Simon Forman sajmik...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:11 AM, John Haggerty bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested in seeing how it would be possible in python to have persistent objects (basically be able

Persistent Distributed Objects

2009-10-08 Thread John Haggerty
I am interested in seeing how it would be possible in python to have persistent objects (basically be able to save objects midway through a computation, etc) and do so across multiple computers. Something that would allow for memory, disk space, processing power, etc to be distributed across the

Re: Incremental project based programming guide

2009-09-15 Thread John Haggerty
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Hendrik van Rooyen hend...@microcorp.co.za wrote: On Tuesday 15 September 2009 04:43:46 bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone had actually designed their programming text around incremental parts of a project and then taken the results of the

Re: Thread Pool

2009-08-30 Thread John Haggerty
twisted? I don't get it On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Hansen apt.shan...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Vitaly Babiy vbabi...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Any one know of a good thread pool library. I have tried a few but they don't seem to clean up after them selfs

Re: Sending email

2009-08-30 Thread John Haggerty
I would concur On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:49 AM, 7stud bbxx789_0...@yahoo.com wrote: On Aug 28, 8:18 am, Fencer no.i.d...@want.mail.from.spammers.com wrote: 7stud wrote: [snip] Thanks for your reply. After consulting the sysadmins here I was able to get it to work. - Fencer

Re: What python can NOT do?

2009-08-29 Thread John Haggerty
Theoretically a microkernel could be used to do the stuff python directly couldn't do and the rest could be done once an interpreter was loaded in theory. On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:37 PM, qwe rty hkh00...@gmail.com wrote: i know that an interpreted language like python can't be used to make an

Re: Modules/packages by GvR?

2009-08-28 Thread John Haggerty
How is writing code like a language maintainer going to go towards a philosophic ideal? And more principally why would this be of a benefit. In the philosophic world dressing and acting like Socrates isn't necessarily the same as following his ideals and isn't necessarily being Socratic. On Fri,

Re: OT Signature quote [was Re: Unrecognized escape sequences in string literals]

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
I guess the problem is---does it actually matter? On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Steven D'Aprano st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:07:31 -0700, Aahz wrote: I saw `cout' being shifted Hello world times to the left and stopped right there. --Steve

redoing libgmail interface to smtplib blah?

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
The following program is theoretically supposed to use a supported library. Issues have come up where the library is not working and now another interface is being requierd to be used. At this point I'm looking at just changing the send commands but don't feel confident in doing so. Wondering

Re: random.gauss vs. random.normalvariate

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
What does the term thread safe mean exactly. I never had to program with threads before On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.comwrote: On Aug 15, 12:49 pm, Alan G Isaac alan.is...@gmail.com wrote: Quotinghttp://docs.python.org/3.1/library/random.html#random.gauss:

Re: ignored test cases in unittest

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
So you are saying you have several hundred tests you have to do on your program? On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Terry terry.yin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have some 100s unittest cases with my python program. And sometimes, I did quick-and-dirty work by ignoring some test cases by adding an

Re: Python or ActionScript 3.0

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
If it were me I'd go with python at least based on the fact that it's more supported and more popular, enough so that it has o'reiley soruces on it. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Jaseem jas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is python similar to actionscript 3.0 Which is better to create a rich gui

Re: random.gauss vs. random.normalvariate

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.comwrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:34:36 -0600, John Haggerty bouncy...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: What does the term thread safe mean exactly. I never had to program with threads

Re: random.gauss vs. random.normalvariate

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
Erlang I assume is a computer programming language? On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Paul Rubin http://phr...@nospam.invalidwrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com writes: No language can guard against independent access of a shared/global object by multiple threads...

Re: redoing libgmail interface to smtplib blah?

2009-08-15 Thread John Haggerty
I did detect one problem thus far File test.py, line 152 if len(args) == 1 and args[0] = -c: On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.comwrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:23:26 -0600, John Haggerty bouncy...@gmail.com declaimed the following

Re: getting a simple program to work

2009-08-14 Thread John Haggerty
this would be my 5th program language to solve a simple problem I think this is solveable w/o having to resort to the equivalent to a half semester of CS I in python imho. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:41 PM, John Haggerty bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: Just checking to see if this is more adequate to what you

Re: getting a simple program to work

2009-08-12 Thread John Haggerty
Just checking to see if this is more adequate to what you would have wanted to see I didn't get any feedback so I wasn't quite sure of this at the present time. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:02 PM, John Haggerty bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Chris Rebert c

Re: getting a simple program to work

2009-08-11 Thread John Haggerty
just checking to see if there is any input that may have been misdirected to a spam filter. Would love to see some feedback if I may On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:42 PM, John Haggerty bouncy...@gmail.com wrote: ok so I know this is one of those weird requests but here me out. So far I have an issue

Re: getting a simple program to work

2009-08-11 Thread John Haggerty
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:42 PM, John Haggertybouncy...@gmail.com wrote: ok so I know this is one of those weird requests but here me out. So far I have an issue with a package for python called libgmail which is