ink I will look at
it.
ps. sorry for the direct mail, I can't get used to one mailinglist
always replying to the list, and the other replying to the user by
default ;-)
With regards,
- Jorgen
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:00 AM, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 5, 4:23 am, &qu
es, I can help.
>
> thx. Edwin
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Jorgen Bodde
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: python-list@python.org
> Subject: UnicodeDecodeError, how to elegantly deal
Hi All,
I am relatively new to python unicode pains and I would like to have
some advice. I have this snippet of code:
def playFile(cmd, args):
argstr = list()
for arg in appcfg.options[appcfg.CFG_PLAYER_ARGS].split():
thefile = args["file"]
filemask = u"%file%"
th
Maybe the interpreter remembered the values of some objects you used?
If you type in the interpreter, the objects you create have a lifetime
as long as the interpreter is active, which means it can get a state
behaviour that otherwise is not present if you start a new interpreter
instance. To be sa
Hi,
It depends on how your printer can be accessed. Is there a driver for
it? The most simple way might be using ShellExecute (under windows)
but I found no way to supress the print dialog.
Another way is using win32com module and instantiate an IE automation
object, which you feed a HTML page a
Hi All,
I am at a loss. This is slightly OT because it concerns Windows and
HTML printing. I would like to print a HTML document from Python, but
not showing the printing dialog. After numerous searches and trials I
came to the conclusion that ShellExecute with the "print" command and
a HTML docum
y COM. By sending an XML script to it, I can set
the variables for that label and issue a print command.
With kind regards,
- Jorgen
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorgen Bodde schrieb:
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am tryi
Hi All,
I am trying to automate a 3rd party application, and all I have to
work on is the type library and some documentation. I hope a Python /
COM guru can answer this or put me on the right path because I don't
know why it does not work.
First I imported the typelib with comtypes like;
>> fro
Hi Larry,
Sorry for accidentally mailing you personally. I fixed the problem, it
was a problem with the search path, and once that was fixed it works
fine!
thanks again,
- Jorgen
On Feb 8, 2008 9:26 AM, Jorgen Bodde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> > Sure there is
Hi all,
This is slightly OT but it drives me nuts. Whenever I create a
shortcut in the start menu (in Windows) of a python script, it will
only execute it when the path where the script resides in contains no
spaces. For example;
d:\src\app\app.py
If I drag that to the Start Menu it can be execu
Hi All,
Sorry for the late reply back, I had a busy weekend ... it seems there
is no clear way to do it and maybe that is why I was / am so confused.
Eventually I searched for *.py files, and like I said most apps seem
to install in /usr/share/{app} I believe that location is for data
only that i
Hi Jeroen,
Thanks for the advice.
> Personally I'd be loathe to put app.py in /usr/bin. This directory is normally
> reserved for OS-specific binaries. For personal/system-extended stuff I'd use
> /usr/local/bin or whatever your system mandates. (But hey, that's the typical
> mentality difference
Hi All,
I am trying to make a debian package. I am following the tutorial by
Horst Jens
(http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=linuxJensMakingDeb&fromSeriesID=37)
and it is very informative. However one thing my app has and his
doesn't, is multiple python files which need to be executed. For
exam
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-11-20, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jorgen Bodde wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, A.T.Hofkamp (sorry for not knowing your first name ;-),
>
> Well Jorgen, it is at the bottom of each post (usually)... ;-)
>
> &g
Hi Paul,
Like I said, I do not want to limit my end users into installing
something in Apache or some other solution in order to get my tool
working. On the end user side (which also are the people who are
creating the repositories for others) there must be no burden
whatsoever. Your thoughts are
ected.
thanks for pointing that out..
Regards,
- Jorgen
On Nov 20, 2007 12:41 PM, Jorgen Bodde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Diez ,
>
> I fail to see that. If I am the one that can only put new "archive
> files" on my server by FTP or HTTP upload or whatever, and I upd
Hi Diez ,
I fail to see that. If I am the one that can only put new "archive
files" on my server by FTP or HTTP upload or whatever, and I update
the file which contains the information about what updates are present
on my site as last, there is no data corruption or loss of data.
There are two ro
Hi A.T.Hofkamp,
Using svn still requires the people wanting to offer updates to have a
svn server installed, or use one of the svn services available and
that is simply too limiting.
I will explain a bit more where I will use this for. I am writing a
tool that takes a repository (e.g. a bunch of
20, 2007 10:48 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorgen Bodde wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I want to provide my users the ability to download a repository from
> > the web, and after that check for updates. I thought of a mechanism
> > that could
Hi all,
I want to provide my users the ability to download a repository from
the web, and after that check for updates. I thought of a mechanism
that could do that, but since there is patch and diff readily
available I wondered if there is a python solution that allows me to
download a file, and l
Dear list,
Thanks for the suggestions and clarification. After playing with XML
for a while I noticed whitespaces can indeed be more important then I
thought. I did came to the following conclusions;
1. Removing whitespaces was done by my code, not by the
xml.dom.minidom so I regret the fact I sa
Hi Paul,
> This seems like a reasonable explanation without having looked at the
> source code myself.
It's by thorough investigation ;-)
> Which part of the standard is this? Here's the XML 1.0 specification's
> section on whitespace:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-white-sp
serve it and mess up the formatting in
the end?
Regards,
- Jorgen
On 10/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 2, 11:43 am, "Jorgen Bodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I parse an XML file, replace a node with a ne
Hi all,
I parse an XML file, replace a node with a new one (like updating
cache) and write it back. Every write, new spaces are added. For
example, first read - update - write cycle;
My First App
Second cycle:
Awesome! Thanks you!
As for why caring if they are bools or not, I write True and False to
the properties, the internal mechanism works like this so I need to
make that distinction.
Thanks again guys,
- Jorgen
ps. Sorry TheFlyingDutch for mailing you personally, I keep forgetting
this mailinglis
Hi All,
I have a dictionary with settings. The settinfgs can be strings, ints
or bools. I would like to write this list dynamically to disk in a big
for loop, unfortunately the bools need to be written as 0 or 1 to the
config with WriteInt, the integers also with WriteInt and the strings
with a si
Hi all,
I am looking into using Python to introduce dynamic behavior in my
C++, e.g. something like a simulation where objects can interact with
eachother. I know Python can be called from C++, but is it possible to
call a binary compiled Python file / array from C++ ? The reason I ask
is that if
Hi all,
I want to make a small batch copy tool that scans for certain files,
and copies them to a specified directory. Since the files are huge
(AVI / DIVX) typical 300 to 700 Mb, I want to provide the user with
some feedback during the file copy.
Here is my dillemma; When I use shutil.move(..,..
I had the same feeling when I started, coming from a C++ background, I
forgot about self a lot, creating local copies of what should be an
assign to a class instance, or methods that could not be found because
I forgot 'self' .
Now I am 'kinda' used to it, as every language has some draw backs
(yo
self.list_box_1_copy.Append( your_item )
In the wxWidgets help:
http://www.wxwidgets.org/manuals/2.8.0/wx_wxcontrolwithitems.html#wxcontrolwithitems
And in the wxPython help:
http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.ItemContainer-class.html
Regards,
- Jorgen
On 6/12/07, Marcpp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 6/6/07, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorgen Bodde wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wanted to solve a small problem, and I have a function that is
> > typically meant only as a function belonging inside another function.
> >>From the i
Hi all,
I wanted to solve a small problem, and I have a function that is
typically meant only as a function belonging inside another function.
>From the inner function I want to access a variable from the outer
function like;
def A():
some_var = 1
def B():
some_var += 1
B()
But this
@ Larry,
As much as I like to follow the idiom that Python has, I do not see
the usefulness of making an add function that checks the interface
that other objects might need. Besides the fact it is a bit overhead
and not to mention performance draining, in an application that I
develop myself, wit
Hi Gabriel,
Yep that basically covered my implementation as well. It was rather
trivial to make it, and even for a python newbie it was simple which
says enough about the language itself. ;-)
Although I understand the opinions that you should not care about
types, I do believe putting a constrain
Hi,
Thanks. I agree that it is only 'me' that is the one doing it wrong.
But consider this scenario:
- Somewhere in my app I add a wrong type to an open regular list
- The app continues like it should
- After a (long) while I need to perform some search on the list, or whatever
- Exception occurs
Hi Bruno,
Thanks for your answer.
Well what I am after is a list of relations to some class type. And in
that list I do not wish to have accidentally put ints, strings, only
one type of object, or interface. Now I can make the list interface
safe, but it is only meant for relational purposes only
Well wxPython offers all of the above. They use XRC which is a XML
file which can be loaded inside the GUI, that auto-creates the
components + layout for you. It also supports creating the gui
programatically, which might be very handy when your layout is
undetermined or changes when users select o
Hi all,
I have been slowly progressing with my application written in
wxPython. I love the freedom, speed and lack of the compiling run. I
still have to get used to the lack of (strong) types, and it sometimes
frustates me to no end that a wrongly given argument explodes
somewhere deep inside my a
great! Thanks it makes perfect sense, but before attempting some code
rewrite I just wanted to be sure ;-)
Regards,
- Jorgen
On 5/13/07, Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:41:12AM +0200, Jorgen Bodde wrote:
> > I am wrestling with some archite
Hi All,
I am wrestling with some architecture inside my app. Let's say I have
a tunings collection, which contains e.g. 23 types of guitar tunings.
In my song object I want to restore a relation between one of the
tuning objects inside the tunings module.
I already figured out I need somethign li
I prefer PsPad.
If you like Notepad++, PSPad might be a better choice. More intuitive.
I've used Notepad++ for a while, I really disliked the fact that every
new install my settings XML file would get overwritten, and what does
that guy have with Comic sans MS? Every default style is hard coded
in
Hi Bruno,
Unfortunately SQLAlchemy will be too involved at this point I will
have to rewrite a lot of code to remove my current DB solution and use
that. Howerver I've learned from my mistake and the next project will
use it, as it seems to be a nice way of mapping objects to databases..
I'v solv
Ok thanks,
I will try this approach. The idea was that I could give a list to the
SQL execute command, so that the results coming back would
automatically be assigned to variables.
With regards,
- Jorgen
On 5/8/07, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorgen Bodde wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to simplify my code, and want to automate the assigning of
variables I get back from a set. I was thinking of putting the
variables I want changed in a list:
L = [self._varA, self._varB ]
self._varA is a variable I want to change when I pass L to a function.
I know doing this;
L
Hi all,
I want to structure my app so that I have two dirs like;
obj/{object files}
gui/{gui files}
Here comes the catch. From the GUI dir, I would like to access the obj
submodule path. I need to go one dir back.. I read there was something
like from .. import x in python 2.5 so that I could a
Hi,
Basically your data model needs to be defined. It depends on your
'problem area'. It is usually good practice to keep your datamodel
free of GUI elements, so that it can be easily reused. The GUI in the
other hand can know everything about the public interface of the data
model.
I've recently
>From what I know, if you place a __init__.py file in the folder that
will become your subfolder, you can make it a module subfolder.
Like;
d:\src\app\submodule\__init__.py (can be empty file)
Then in d:\src\app\main.py simply do;
import submodule
# use your new module like
submodule.somefu
Thanks again,
I will explain what happened. I am a python newbie. The time and
datetime modules are confusing at the beginning, but after diving into
them I started to understand the structure. So what I did was using
the time module for date storage, but I came to understand that time
is actually
Ok thanks, I missed out on datetime where the methods I need are also present.
I'll be refactoring my data a bit, thanks again!
- Jorgen
On 4/15/07, Diez B. Roggisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorgen Bodde schrieb:
> > Hi List
> >
> > I am working on a
Hi List
I am working on an app to store guitar songs I am practicing, and for
the fun of it I want to store the date of songs when they were
originally made. So far so good..
However, my taste of music is "Rag Time Blues" and that os OLD, very
OLD music. So it happened I entered a song from the
heir help!
- Jorgen
On 4/12/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:43 +0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jorgen Bodde
> > wrote:
> >
> > >>>> r = c.execute('select * from s
Hi All,
Now that I am really diving into Python, I encounter a lot of things
that us newbies find difficult to get right. I thought I understood
how super() worked, but with 'private' members it does not seem to
work. For example;
>>> class A(object):
... def __baseMethod(self):
...
Hi all,
I am using sqlite3 in python, and I wonder if there is a way to know
if there are valid rows returned or not. For example I have a table
song with one entry in it. The ID of that entry is 1, so when I do;
>>> r = c.execute('select * from song where id = 1')
>>> for s in r:
... print s
Hi,
Coming from the wx community, I do know that the wx.HtmlWindow is NOT
meant to load full blown web pages with. It has no concept of
javascript, CSS, and other complex DOM properties.
If you really want to display complex web pages in a window, look at
wxMozilla or the wxIE binding.
So the re
With as output;
C:\Documents and Settings\Jorg\Desktop>python New1.py
Hello world
--
Hello world
Hello world
Nice! Thanks a lot for the info!
- Jorgen
On 4/5/07, Mike C. Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorgen Bodde wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> &
Hi all,
Hopefully someone can help me. I am fairly new to Python, and I am
looking into PyDispatcher. I am familiar with the C++ sigslot variant,
and I wonder how similar PyDispatches is. I run in to the following
'problem' (pseudo code, untested here)
import pydispatch.dispatcher
class A:
def
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