problems with Methods in Python 3.4.2

2014-12-21 Thread Marcus Lütolf
Hello Dears, I solved the problem: There are two underscore key strokes required. Marcus. Hello Dears, 1)I am trying to do this: >>> dir(_builtins_) I am getting this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in dir(_builtins_) NameError: name

problems with Methods in Python 3.4.2

2014-12-18 Thread Marcus Lütolf
ceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in -3 .abs() AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'abs' 4) finally, after printing >>>abs._doc_() I am getting this (and so on) : Traceback (most recent call last): File ""

Re: Iterate through a list and try log in to a website with urllib and re

2014-03-03 Thread Marcus
It's not that hard to find a program that does this already. But I'm trying to learn how to use these modules to create this. I've started it and now i want to complete it so I can create another program and learn more about other stuff, maybe a Twitter script or something. How do I learn when n

Re: Iterate through a list and try log in to a website with urllib and re

2014-03-03 Thread Marcus
Yes, it's only for my own use on my local WordPress installation. Only educational use. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Iterate through a list and try log in to a website with urllib and re

2014-03-03 Thread Marcus
This is the code right now: http://pastebin.com/pE1YZX2K -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Iterate through a list and try log in to a website with urllib and re

2014-03-03 Thread Marcus
Hello, I'm trying to use urllib and urllib2 to open an url + login_data in a for loop. How can I display when successfully logged in and how to show when the login is denied? I've tried use this: html_content = urllib2.urlopen(url).read() re.findall('ERROR: The password you entered for the us

Re: threads and timeout -> running a shell command / want to guard against infinite loops

2013-02-10 Thread marcus . liddle
On Tuesday, 19 August 2003 15:01:01 UTC+12, Marcus Liddle wrote: > > > Hi > > I'm trying to get a really simple python program to > run a bash testing script and kill itself if its > been running to long (ie infinite loop) > > create the thread object

Re: What is the difference between 'except IOError as e:' and 'except IOError, e:'

2009-11-18 Thread Marcus Gnaß
See also http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/2.6.html#pep-3110-exception-handling-changes -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A beginner question about GUI use and development

2009-11-13 Thread Marcus Gnaß
uap12 wrote: > When i givet the program away i like to pack it, so the enduser > just run it, i don't like to tell the user to install Python, and/or > som GUI package. is this possible. So Tkinter would be your choice, cause its shipped with Python ... > In the beginning it is okej to code the

Re: Tax Calculator--Tkinter

2009-11-09 Thread Marcus Gnaß
Someone Something wrote: > > from Tkinter import *; Try to avoid this. Better import Tkinter. And don't forget to import Tkconstants too! > > rate=Frame(root) > > income=Frame(root) > > result=Frame(root) Why do you use three frames? You only need one. And you can make your class TaxCalc inherit

Re: Overlap in python

2009-08-06 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 8/5/2009 10:56 AM, nn wrote: On Aug 5, 7:13 am, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 8/4/2009 6:09 PM, MRAB wrote: >>> parts = [(5, 9, "a"), (7, 10, "b"), (3, 6, "c"), (15, 20, "d"), (18, 23, "e")] >>> parts.sort() >>&

Re: Overlap in python

2009-08-05 Thread Marcus Wanner
parts[pos - 1 : pos + 1] = [(p[0], max(p[1], q[1]), p[2] + "." + q[2])] else: # They don't overlap, so try the next pair. pos += 1 >>> parts [(3, 10, 'c.a.b'), (15, 23, 'd.e')] That's th

Re: Using Python to automate builds

2009-08-05 Thread Marcus Wanner
ghly recommend scons. At dolphin-emu, we use it to daily compile a project containing over 500,000 lines of c/c++ code, which is modified very frequently. It works like a charm, and is seamlessly cross- platform (in my experience). However, it might not be exactly the thing you're looki

Re: Is it possible to have the python color in the terminal ?

2009-08-04 Thread Marcus Wanner
You might try posting to this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/58df7b77394e4666/f4c13766a1e09380 I don't know much about the question myself, though. Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Overlap in python

2009-08-04 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 8/4/2009 2:46 PM, Ann wrote: On Aug 4, 11:31 am, Marcus Wanner wrote: On Aug 4, 2:15 pm, Jay Bird wrote: Hi everyone, I've been trying to figure out a simple algorithm on how to combine a list of parts that have 1D locations that overlap into a non- overlapping list. For example,

Re: Overlap in python

2009-08-04 Thread Marcus Wanner
#x27;') listofvaluepairs = string.split(values, ',') listofvalues = [] for pair in listofvaluepairs: twovalues = string.split(pair, '-') listofvalues.append(int(twovalues[0])) listofvalues.append(int(twovalues[1])) return listofvalues v

Re: Is python buffer overflow proof?

2009-08-03 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 8/3/2009 3:45 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Marcus Wanner schrieb: On 8/2/2009 10:43 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: I believe that python is buffer overflow proof. In fact, I think that even ctypes is overflow proof... No, ctypes isn't buffer overflow proof. ctype

Re: Is python buffer overflow proof?

2009-08-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 8/2/2009 10:43 AM, Christian Heimes wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: I believe that python is buffer overflow proof. In fact, I think that even ctypes is overflow proof... No, ctypes isn't buffer overflow proof. ctypes can break and crash a Python interpreter easily. Christian I s

Re: Seeding the rand() Generator

2009-08-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
= random.rand()) Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is python buffer overflow proof?

2009-08-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
probably by design and raises the topic in question. Am curious to see the opinions of people who know. TIA. I believe that python is buffer overflow proof. In fact, I think that even ctypes is overflow proof... Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

2009-08-02 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 8/1/2009 9:31 PM, sturlamolden wrote: - Python and C programmers use lists and arrays similarly. I'm guessing that's because of the brackets... Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to read webpage

2009-08-01 Thread Marcus Wanner
l with Sockets (directly anyway). If memory serves correctly, it's where the system can't name resolve the required address. So best guess is it's either a temporary glitch, or an issue with your routing. Jon. Jon. 'getaddrinfo failed' means that the nameserver can't be found, or that it has no records of that address (I'm 90% sure of that). Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: threads check socket

2009-07-31 Thread Marcus Wanner
tcp or udp? Is it a local socket or a remote one? What is controlling the socket? Define "open". Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Regexp problem

2009-07-30 Thread Marcus Wanner
\w+)-is-listening", text) print "Captured '%s'" % m.group(1) print "Matched from %d to %d" % (m.start(), m.end()) Ok, thank you all, it was very helpful! Wow, I really need to learn more about regexp... Any tutorials you guys can recommend? Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does python have the capability for driver development ?

2009-07-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
userspace environment and pyusb which uses that and provides an interface to Python. iicr pyusb uses a c interface to libusb, not python... Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: about analyze object's stack usage

2009-07-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
ed by gcc) If you're talking about a c program, almost certainly not. What you should do is just use gdb and disas each function and look at what it subtracts off of %esp at the third instruction in the function. I can explain it to you if you are not very experienced in gdb and assembly..

Re: simple splash screen?

2009-07-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 7/28/2009 11:58 PM, NighterNet wrote: I am trying to make a simple splash screen from python 3.1.Not sure where to start looking for it. Can any one help? Trying to make a splash screen for python? Or trying to do image processing in python? Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: fast video encoding

2009-07-29 Thread Marcus Wanner
if this counts as help, but you're welcome! Gregor Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: len() should always return something

2009-07-25 Thread Marcus Wanner
t useful, because the latter can be got with len(str(42)). However, the former can also be (/slightly/ less)easily got with len(bin(42))-2... I also think that "Explicit is better than implicit." says that there should be no return value in this case, as any return value would be

Re: len() should always return something

2009-07-25 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 7/25/2009 5:34 AM, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: On Friday 24 July 2009 22:09:15 Marcus Wanner wrote: First one to correctly decompress the value 0 into an ASCII character wins the title of the world's most capable hacker :p that is easy. the xor of 0 and 1 is 1, which is ASCII soh,

Re: len() should always return something

2009-07-24 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 7/24/2009 4:18 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: Marcus Wanner wrote: On 7/24/2009 3:04 PM, Roy Smith wrote: In article <0279f596$0$5185$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:50:03 +0200, superpollo wrote: Nah. 7 contains three bits, so le

Re: len() should always return something

2009-07-24 Thread Marcus Wanner
bit is easy. It's the uncompressing that's tricky. I assume you mean ord("7")%2? First one to correctly decompress the value 0 into an ASCII character wins the title of the world's most capable hacker :p Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: any suggestions to synchronize typed text and speech ?

2009-07-24 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 7/21/2009 12:13 PM, Stef Mientki wrote: hi Marcus, That sounds like a very specialized type of thing, Well from an application point of view, with the current netbooks, this looks like a perfect tool for any conversation or meeting. which only the few people with experience with wxPython

Re: Help understanding the decisions *behind* python?

2009-07-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
x27;t think of any real- world cases where you'd use something like that. Actually, that would be very useful in the program from "any suggestions to synchronize typed text and speech ?"...i.e. have a dictionary key of (hour, minute, second). Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Design question.

2009-07-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
in there with them, then that would be good. But if you put bicycle and car and adjustbrakes() in the module with the fruits, or mixed the two groups in several modules, that would be bad. Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: any suggestions to synchronize typed text and speech ?

2009-07-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 7/20/2009 5:34 AM, Stef Mientki wrote: thanks Marcus, Marcus Wanner wrote: On 7/19/2009 4:15 PM, Stef Mientki wrote: hello, I'm using Scintilla as a wxPython widget with great pleasure. I now have an application where I want to make notes during a conversation, but also want to r

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-20 Thread Marcus Wanner
On 7/20/2009 2:13 AM, Paul Rubin wrote: Steven D'Aprano writes: Besides, one can legitimately disagree that 2/3 => 0 is the wrong thing to do. It's the right thing to do if you're doing integer maths. I wonder whether 2/3 => ValueError is preferable. Not for me :( -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: any suggestions to synchronize typed text and speech ?

2009-07-19 Thread Marcus Wanner
just give each note a four-digit ID number at the beginning of it when it's entered and use that in the dictionary (to keep keys shorter). Or you could just do a little hack and increase the number of bookmarks allowed (seeing as source is available) :p Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: Rus Python script interactively

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
le in that session again. If the second one is imported, it will not do anything until you call the main() function, and then you can call it again as many times as you want: {{{ >>> import thefile >>> for i in range(5): ... thefile.main() ... hello world hello world hell

Re: Python graphics / imaging library

2009-07-18 Thread Marcus Wanner
Excellent. From a very brief look it seems like it will be quite simple to use. Pete Yes, it was fun to work with (for me at least). Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Someone enlightened me

2008-07-12 Thread Marcus Low
Can someone explain to me, why the behaviour below is different when u remark "lister" and unremark "self.lister"? #-- class abc : # remark this later and unremark "self.lister" lister = [] def __init__ (self, val): #se

Someone enlightened me

2008-07-12 Thread Marcus Low
Opps here is the mail again, incase my formatting is lost, can someone explain to me why this code behaves differently when "lister" and "self.lister" is swap remarked. class abc : # remark this later and unremark "self.lister" lister = [] def __init__ (self, val): #self.lister

Re: Someone enlightened me

2008-07-12 Thread Marcus Low
Duh, Ok here is the file again ...attached. I give up doing this via the email editor. Sorry! new to the mailing list. Marcus Marcus Low wrote: Opps here is the mail again, incase my formatting is lost, can someone explain to me why this code behaves differently when "lister

Installing PyQt

2008-02-06 Thread Marcus Strube
Hi I was trying to install PyQt, but things don't work as promised. I'm working on OS X 10.5, didn't install another version of Python - so it's 2.5.1 -, installed the latest "qt-mac-opensource-4.3.3.dmg" and the latest sip 4.7.3. But when I then try to run python configure.py for PyQt 4.3.

Monitoring the output of an external program

2007-12-12 Thread Caleb Marcus
I'm writing something that has to invoke an external program, and every time the external program prints something, update a UI. How would I go about doing this? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[SOLVED] Re: os walk() and threads problems (os.walk are thread safe?)

2007-11-14 Thread Marcus Alves Grando
oving "if EXIT" all works fine again. Thanks all Regards Marcus Alves Grando wrote: > I make one new version more equally to original version: > > --code-- > #!/usr/bin/python > > import os, sys, time > import glob, random, Queue > import threading &

Re: os walk() and threads problems (os.walk are thread safe?)

2007-11-13 Thread Marcus Alves Grando
hon -V Python 2.5.1 # uname -r 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp # python test.py /usr test:0:1311:0 # python test.py /usr test:0:1486:0 # python test.py /usr test:0:1520:0 # python -V Python 2.3.4 I really don't know what's happen. Another ideia? Regards Chris Mellon wrote: > On Nov 13, 2007 1:06

Re: os walk() and threads problems (os.walk are thread safe?)

2007-11-13 Thread Marcus Alves Grando
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Marcus Alves Grando wrote: > >> Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> Marcus Alves Grando wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> I have a strange problem with os.walk and threads in python script. I >>

Re: os walk() and threads problems (os.walk are thread safe?)

2007-11-13 Thread Marcus Alves Grando
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Marcus Alves Grando wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> I have a strange problem with os.walk and threads in python script. I >> have one script that create some threads and consume Queue. For every >> value in Queue this script run os.wa

os walk() and threads problems (os.walk are thread safe?)

2007-11-13 Thread Marcus Alves Grando
ports/*'): POOL.put(i) while not POOL.empty(): time.sleep(1) EXIT = True while (threading.activeCount() > 1): time.sleep(1) except KeyboardInterrupt: EXIT=True --code-- If someone can help with this i appreciate. Regard

Using eggs or py2exe to distribute apps

2007-07-19 Thread Marcus
updates over time, rather than big updates all at once. Any guidance or suggestions are very much appreciated. Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: error return without exception set

2007-07-03 Thread Marcus
Will McGugan wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. It happens when I'm debugging a wxWidgets > application with Komodo, but I can't trap it. I'm guessing it must be a > Komodo issue, because I dont get it if I run it without the debugger. The error happens in PyDev for Eclipse also -- only while de

Third-party libs in version control

2007-06-09 Thread Marcus
y into Python's subdirectories... is that correct? Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: calendar (date) iterator?

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus
On Mar 6, 3:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marcus> I'm looking for useful starting points, suggestions, and sample > Marcus> code, to implement a calendar iterator. > > Have you looked at dateutil? > >http://labix.org/python-dateutil > > &

Re: calendar (date) iterator?

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus
Oops-- the iter needs to work better than I do! :) > > iter = calendarIterator("03-12-2006") > > print iter.next() > >03-12-2006 ^^ 03-13-2006 > > iter = calendarIterator("03-12-2006 01:00:00", "minutes") > > print iter.next() > >03-12-2006 01:01:00 ^^

calendar (date) iterator?

2007-03-06 Thread Marcus
Hi, I'm looking for useful starting points, suggestions, and sample code, to implement a calendar iterator. Simply, the iterator is seeded with an initial calendar date, e.g., "03-12-2006", and then subsequent calls to next return subsequent dates. The seed could be a standard calendar/datetime

Re: probably a stupid question: MatLab equivalent of "diff" ?

2006-12-29 Thread Marcus Goldfish
fo/python-list Stef, Can you provide more context on your use-- are you receiving binary data sequentially, or do you have a list or array of binary values? Are you using numpy/scipy? Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

moinmoin advocacy?

2006-12-12 Thread Marcus
orm? Will Moinmoin be able to keep up with the heated evolution of wikis for corporate and PIM usage? Is there a sense of moinmoin momentum (developer or user)? Is the lack of moinmoin advocacy a consequence of a weak product, or something else? Thanks, Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newb: installing Jython on Windows XP ...

2006-11-10 Thread Marcus Bajohr
exe" jython_21 > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jython_21 > > C:\Jython>"c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_09\bin\java.exe" jython-21 > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jython-21 > > Any hel

Re: newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

2006-02-03 Thread marcus . tettmar
Goodness, you're a nice friendly lot aren't you!? I saw that and I realise that ActivePython COMES with support for Windows. But it doesn't say that it forces scripts you create with it to load modules you haven't implicitly imported yourself! It doesn't say that a script might run in PythonWin

Re: newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

2006-02-03 Thread marcus . tettmar
Hi, Sorry, I'm not trying to make things hard! I just can't figure why it works when run from PythonWin and not from Python - PythonWin MUST load some extra library. Anyway, I have finally fixed it by adding import win32com to the top of the script. Am guessing the DLL uses COM and PythonWin mu

Re: newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

2006-02-03 Thread marcus . tettmar
Unfortunately not. Is there any doc anywhere that shows how to make the script run from the command line the same way it does within PythonWin? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

2006-02-03 Thread marcus . tettmar
Hi, This is all I get: error 250477278 Traceback (most recent call last): File "script1.py", line 5, in ? Inst = lib.Initialize(0) WindowsError: exception code 0xeedfade I get this when running python.exe script1.py ** When run from inside PythonWin it runs beautifully and returns with no

Re: newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

2006-02-03 Thread marcus . tettmar
I'm using ctypes and loading a DLL and running a DLL function. As I say it works perfectly with no errors when I run from PythonWin but gives the following exception when run from command line. WindowsError: exception code 0xeedfade I can use the DLL with no issues in other languages too. It wo

newbie - script works in PythonWin - fails from Python

2006-02-03 Thread marcus . tettmar
Hi, I have a script that runs fine when I run it from within PythonWin but causes a WindowsError: Exception when I try to run it from the command line using python.exe. What is PythonWin doing differently? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Looping Problem (Generating files - only the last record generates a file)

2005-10-26 Thread Marcus Ekelund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a problem with the program that should generate x number of txt > files (x is the number of records in the file datafile.txt). > > Once I execute the program (see below) only one file (instead of x > files) is created. The file created is based on th

Do I need to have site.py available or not ?

2005-08-05 Thread marcus . obrien
python -v command, ie the embedded way. Thanks very much. Marcus. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sending mail from 'current user' in Python

2005-06-12 Thread Marcus Alanen
ry. Then try /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/libexec/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail. You could try using exitcode 127 to detect "program could not be found or executed" but I don't know how portable that is. I can't comment on the Windows side of things. Regards, Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Memory errors with large zip files

2005-05-23 Thread Marcus Lowland
Thank for the detailed reply John! I guess it turned out to be a bit tougher than I originally thought :-) Reading over your links, I think I better not attempt rewriting the zipfile.py program... a little over my head :-). The best solution, from everything I read seems to be calling an unzip

help with binary file io, perhaps with generators?

2005-04-23 Thread Marcus Goldfish
ans I need some form of buffered io wrapper, but I'm not sure where to start with this. Thanks! Marcus Ps -- this seems like a general stream processing problem… if anyone can recommend good refs (web) on stream processing -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: internet explorer/firefox plugin/toolbar

2005-04-22 Thread Marcus Goldfish
> does anyone have any ideas as to how to go about creating a plugin/toolbar > for both/either the IE/Firefox browsers? For IE, checkout Browser Helper Objects (BHOs). Sample python code can be found at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/ctypes-users/2263094 Marcus -

Re: Using python from a browser

2005-04-15 Thread Marcus Goldfish
a web site could read or destroy your > files. Slightly off-topic, it is possible to use browser helper objects (bhos) with Internet Explorer: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/CtypesLinks Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pythonic use of properties?

2005-04-15 Thread Marcus Goldfish
our larger design. So what do you consider when making this decision, and do these factors differ between python and C#/Java? Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

pythonic use of properties?

2005-04-14 Thread Marcus Goldfish
ones be made into full-fledged properties and validated? Should number have no validation? Is it more pythonic to encapsulate tightly, or rely on "responsible use." Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Finding attributes in a list

2005-04-02 Thread Marcus Goldfish
defense = [6, 8, 6] # construct players list here Can you recommend an efficient way to construct the player list? Thanks! Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cpickle module... not in Lib installs

2005-03-25 Thread Marcus Lowland
Arrghh, I forgot about case sensitivities sorry about that guys, I'm so used to not having to think about that. Thanks for having patience with me and thanks for the explanations. import cPickle hehe... damn... tricky getting used to that :-) Thanks again, Marcus --

Re: Cpickle module... not in Lib installs

2005-03-25 Thread Marcus Lowland
Thanks Marc, but... I've searched the file directories for cpickle (not specifying file type) and only came up with test_cpickle.py. Also, if cPickle.so were the correct file and existed in my lib then the following would not happen. >>> import cpickle Traceback (most recent call last): File ""

Cpickle module... not in Lib installs

2005-03-25 Thread Marcus Lowland
l, or in the previous version (pickle.py is present and imports correctly). Is there a seperate module package that must be downloaded and installed... or am I overlooking the obvious. Would appreciate any suggestions on how to acquire/load the module. Regards, Marcus -- http://mail.python.org/ma