Wrong exist status for os.system, os.poepen, etc.

2007-03-06 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Subject: python2.4: Wrong exist status for os.system, os.poepen, etc. Package: python2.4 Version: 2.4.4-2 Severity: normal -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'stable'), (60, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh

Building C extensions

2006-11-06 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Well I'm just courious: if I want to buid a C extension, I shoul use the same compiler that has been used to build python (right?). Since python has been built using Visual C, how can I build an extension if I don't have Visual Studio? PAolo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

A py2exe like tool for Linux

2006-10-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, is thre something like py2exe for Linux? I don't need to build a standalone executable (most Linuxes have python instaled), but at least I need to provide all the needed libraries togheter with my source code, so users just need to download one file, and not several libraries. PAolo --

Re: Screen capture on Linux

2006-10-23 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
about nothing about X programing] 2006/10/22, Theerasak Photha [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 22 Oct 2006 09:06:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: Hi, I need to capture a screen snapshot in Linux. PIL has a module IageGrab, but in the free version it only

Screen capture on Linux

2006-10-21 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, I need to capture a screen snapshot in Linux. PIL has a module IageGrab, but in the free version it only works under Windows. Is there any package to capture the screen on Linux? Thnx PAolo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

locals() and globals()

2006-10-14 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi this exaple: def lcl(): n=1 x=locals() x[n]=100 print n in lcl() is: +str(n) #This will say Name error #x[new]=1 #print new n=1 x=globals() x[n]=100 print gobal n is: +str(n) x[new]=1 print new is: +str(new) lcl() produces gobal n is:100 new is:1 n in lcl()

Tk: filling a frame with a widget

2006-10-04 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I have this code from Tkinter import * root=Tk() Button(root).pack(fill=BOTH) root.mainloop() I would expect the button filling all the client draw area of the Frame, but when I resize the root window the button becomes wider, but not higher ( I get some empty space under the button). How could

VIdeo Converence Software: Tk and thread synchronization

2006-10-02 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, I am going on writing my video conference software. I wrote the video grab, code/decode, and netwoark (multicast) transport. I have one thread doing this: [thread 1] while True: for some times: my_socket.recv() #blocking here store data compute image #here we have a complete new

Re: Writing Video conference software for Windows

2006-09-22 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Thnx everybody for the precious help :) Someone said about VNC... I'll take a look, but since it is an exercise I need to do it, I can't just say someone else arelady did that :) Everything seems quite useful. I forgot two specifications: 1. Screen should be split in small squares and only the

Re: Writing Video conference software for Windows

2006-09-22 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/9/22, Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thnx everybody for the precious help :) Someone said about VNC... I'll take a look, but since it is an exercise I need to do it, I can't just say someone else arelady did that :) Everything seems quite useful. I forgot two specifications: 1

Re: Writing Video conference software for Windows

2006-09-21 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
19 Sep 2006 09:42:51 -0700, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you're going to need win32 system access use the win32all python extension (very, very good extension). Do you need single frame image capture, or constant video stream? PIL can be used for the first, it might also be usable for video,

Writing Video conference software for Windows

2006-09-19 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, I need to write a software that allow to see the desktop and hear the microphone capture of a remote PC across a network. I need to do that for a unviresity assignement. The software must run on Windows. Since I like Python very much I am thinking to write that software in Python. Do you

Re: avoiding file corruption

2006-08-27 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
27 Aug 2006 00:44:33 -0700, Amir Michail [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Trying to open a file for writing that is already open for writing should result in an exception. It's all too easy to accidentally open a shelve for writing twice and this can lead to hard to track down database corruption

Re: Python daemon process

2006-08-27 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/26, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm writing a program, using popen4(gnuchess), The problem is, that gnuchess keeps running after program exit. I know about the atexit module, but in java, you could make a process a daemon process, and it would only run as long as the

Python chess

2006-08-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Well Python is not a good language for writing a chess engine (even if a chess engine exists: http://www.kolumbus.fi/jyrki.alakuijala/pychess.html), but it could be grat for chess interfaces, for drawing boards, and similar things. I foudn out a library for these things

[Announce] p-gal: photo gallery generator with templating support

2006-08-14 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
his feedback about what is good and what should be improved. Thnx PAolo Pantaleo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: [Announce] p-gal: photo gallery generator with templating support

2006-08-14 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
14 Aug 2006 08:31:06 -0700, Paul Rubin http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid: Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would anyone to take a look at my piece of code, and give me his feedback about what is good and what should be improved. url? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: p-gal: photo gallery generator with templating support

2006-08-14 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
14 Aug 2006 10:16:37 -0700, ajaksu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: www.sf.net/projects/ppgal Ciao Paolo! The homepage (http://paolopan.freehostia.com/p-gal/ ) looks weird in my SeaMonkey 1.0.4, contents appear below GoogleAds instead of at the right. Well... I designed the site

Grammar parsing

2006-08-03 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, How can I write a pareser for a certain gramamr? I found PyPy that does it, is thare any other tool? Maybe something built-in the python interpreter? Thnx PAolo -- if you have a minute to spend please visit my photogrphy site: http://mypic.co.nr --

Re: Grammar parsing

2006-08-03 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/3, Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I write a pareser for a certain gramamr? I found PyPy that does it, is thare any other tool? Maybe something built-in the python interpreter? The standard library gets you partway there, with 'shlex

Behavior on non definded name in Cheetah

2006-08-02 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
[I hope I am posting to the right place] I have a cheetah template something like this: x is: $x y is: $y z is: $z [Actually more complicated] If for example $y is not defined I get an exception and the parsing of the template stops. Is there any way to substitute $y with an emty string and

Re: Behavior on non definded name in Cheetah

2006-08-02 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/2, Stephan Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [I hope I am posting to the right place] I have a cheetah template something like this: x is: $x y is: $y z is: $z [Actually more complicated] If for example $y is not defined I get an exception

Re: Behavior on non definded name in Cheetah

2006-08-02 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/8/2, Peter Otten [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2006/8/2, Stephan Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [I hope I am posting to the right place] I have a cheetah template something like this: x is: $x y is: $y z is: $z [Actually more

Re: python - regex handling

2006-07-05 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/7/4, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi... does python provide regex handling similar to perl. can't find anything in the docs i've seen to indicate it does... -bruce -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-re.html Here is the

Specifing arguments type for a function

2006-06-20 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I have a function def f(the_arg): ... and I want to state that the_arg must be only of a certain type (actually a list). Is there a way to do that? Thnx PAolo -- if you have a minute to spend please visit my photogrphy site: http://mypic.co.nr --

Getting backtrace on an axception

2006-06-10 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
So I have this code try: do something except: do something else In the except block I need to print detailed output about the error occured, and in particular I need to read the backtrace for the line that raised the exception [then modify and print it]. I know about the

Request for comment: programmer starting page (micro knowledge base)

2006-05-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
links to be added. The page is : http://ppp3.co.nr Thnx Paolo Pantaleo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Includeing Python in text files

2006-05-23 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/5/23, Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I am working on this: I have a text file, containig certain section in the form ?py python code here py? I parse the text file and substitute the python code with its result [redirecting

Includeing Python in text files

2006-05-22 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I am working on this: I have a text file, containig certain section in the form ?py python code here py? I parse the text file and substitute the python code with its result [redirecting sys.stdin to a StringIO]. It something like php or embedded perl. So my little toy works not bad, but I

Re: test assignmet problem

2006-04-24 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/4/23, Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So I tried this if(not (attr=global_re.match(line)) ): break it says invalid syntax [on the =] ... because this syntax is not valid ... so

Re: list example

2006-04-23 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
2006/4/22, Edward Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No substantive problems. The str() calls are unnecessary, print calls list.__str__ already. You can replace the loop with list comprehensions or slices. Same result, a bit more succinct. See these pages for more:

test assignmet problem

2006-04-23 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
So I tried this if(not (attr=global_re.match(line)) ): break it says invalid syntax [on the =] so it is not possible to do test and assignment in C style? how can I write this otherwise? Thnx PAolo -- if you have a minute to spend please visit my photogrphy site: