Re: Newbie: module structure and import question

2005-01-16 Thread Rob Emmons
> yes i know it's related to search path, but i don't know how to set it in a > practical way (beside hard coding). > my concern is, if i want to create a custom module/library, i don't know > what py file will import it and where the working directory should be. Regarding where the current workin

Re: Newbie: module structure and import question

2005-01-13 Thread Rob Emmons
> hi all, > i have question on how to design a module structure. > for example, i have 3 files. > [somewhere]/main.py > [somewhere]/myLib/Base/BaseA.py > [somewhere]/myLib/ClassA.py > > . > It's fine when i run main.py. > however when i run ClassA.py individually, it would fail in import >

Re: The best way to do web apps with Python?

2005-01-08 Thread Rob Emmons
> > > > > > > > What is Just FYI -- the post you posted was in HTML -- you might want to avoid this in the future. 99% of all posts to news groups are in text, not html. Html is hard for everyone to read with normal news readers and not usually of any extra value. It's also more of a se

Re: How do I make Windows Application with Python ?

2005-01-06 Thread Rob Emmons
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 04:49:05 -0800, Fuzzyman wrote: > Couple of corrections - neither pypy nor starkiller are compilers. > Starkiller isn't available yet and *may* be helpful in building > compilers. Pyrex is an alternative language - a python/C hybrid that > can be compiled. > > If you want to r

Re: The Industry choice

2005-01-05 Thread Rob Emmons
> I'd go further. It's not possible to force anyone to share, but the > GPL aims to remove software from a system that instead aims to force > people NOT to share. Well said. I do think the point is -- no one liscence fits all. The GPL is a great tool for those that write software for the pu

Re: The Industry choice

2005-01-04 Thread Rob Emmons
> But the vision of what? Do we have clear, detailed, unambigous vision > _of the process_ or just big ideological axes to grind? I'm afraid > we're close to the latter situation - even though Python is remarkably > different in this area than the "free software": clean, pragmatic, > effective, fre

Re: The Industry choice

2005-01-03 Thread Rob Emmons
> Theoretically. Because even though the source code is available > and free (like in beer as well as in speech) the work of > programmers isn't cheap. > > This "free software" (not so much OSS) notion "but you can > hire programmers to fix it" doesn't really happen in practice, > at least not f

Re: How do I make Windows Application with Python ?

2005-01-03 Thread Rob Emmons
> Well, I programmed a little in MS Visual Studio 2003, and there you have > Console apllication and Windows application (among others). Windows one is > with buttons and other gadgets. So, I want to make applications that > doesn't open console to display result, I want to display it into the > me

Re: The Industry choice

2005-01-01 Thread Rob Emmons
> For managers of companies it's worse: the company makes > VERY substantial investments into any technology it "marries", > and that means big losses if it goes. Long-term stability > of this technology in terms of "we're not going to be left out > in cold alone with this technology to feed it" me