Re: Obtaining a full path name from file

2011-05-24 Thread Michael Kent
If a filename does not contain a path component, os.path.abspath will prepend the current directory path onto it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: portable multiprocessing code

2011-05-17 Thread Michael Kent
You could also install Python 2.7 on that RedHat machine. It can be done without interfering with the 2.5 that RedHat depends on. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: skipping one unittest assertion?

2011-05-01 Thread Michael Kent
I agree that each test should test only one 'thing', but it's also true that testing one 'thing' sometimes/often involves multiple assertions. But in the OP's case, it does sound like the assertion he wants to skip should be broken out into its own test. --

Re: optparse eats $

2011-04-19 Thread Michael Kent
Try this on your *nix command line: echo $100 On a *nix command line, the '$1' part of $100 will be seen as 'give me the value of the shell variable 1', and since it has no value, will result in an empty string. So it's not optparse, or Python, because the literal string you intend to pass as