Re: operator overloading + - / * = etc...

2006-10-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-10-08 11:44:18 +0100: > That's because assignment isn't an operator - that's why (for example) > > print x = 33 > > would be a syntax error. This is a deliberate design decision about > which, history shows, there is little use complaining. Just to clarify: n

Re: question about deleting records from mysql

2005-07-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-07-27 05:12:46 -0700: > ok. did this > > >>> cursor.execute("DELETE FROM table WHERE autoinc > 1000") > 245L > >>> cursor.commit() > > i got an AttributeError 'Cursor' object has no attribute 'commit' > > hmm. what should i do now? RTFM, e. g. here: http://c

Re: Killing process

2005-05-18 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-05-01 05:07:27 -0700: > I actually tried mapping the PID to an integer value and it still > didn't work. At any rate, I found another way to do it. Thanks anyways. What the kind people have been trying to get through is that the win32api.TerminateProcess() does *

Re: Python or PHP?

2005-04-23 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-23 15:53:17 +0200: > Lad wrote: > > >Is anyone capable of providing Python advantages over PHP if there are > >any? > > I am also new to python but I use php for 4 years. I can tell: > > - python is more *pythonic* than php > - python has its own perfume > http://w

Re: regarding system function

2005-04-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-22 08:35:33 +0100: > > --- Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > praba kar wrote: > > > In Php If I send a command to system function > > > then It will return 1 on success and 0 on failure. > > > So based upon that value I can to further work. > > > > > >

Re: Noobie Question: Using strings and paths in mkdir (os.mkdir("/test/"a))

2005-04-22 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-22 00:13:05 -0700: > Hello! > > I can't seem to get paths and variables working together: > > import os > a = 'books' > os.chdir( '/test') > os.mkdir("/test/"a) > > the last line does not seem to work. os.mkdir(a) makes the directory > books, but i want this direct

Re: To decode the Subject =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... in email in python

2005-04-20 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-20 00:30:35 -0700: > When parsing messages using python's libraries email and mailbox, the > subject is often encoded using some kind of = notation. Apparently, the > encoding used in this notation is specified like =?iso-8859-2?Q?=... or > =?iso-8859-2?B?=. That'

Re: [perl-python] Python documentation moronicities (continued)

2005-04-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-17 14:59:50 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > >>Here's a puzzle for you: Where does this list appear? What's missing? > >> > >>"..., Mullender, Nagata, Ng, Oner, Oppelstrup, ..." > > > > Sorry, I

Re: [perl-python] Python documentation moronicities (continued)

2005-04-17 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-13 08:07:06 +1000: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:06:36 +0200, Roman Neuhauser > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Unfortunately, the python community seems to bathe in the > >misorganized half-documentation, see e. g. > >http:

Re: A little request about spam

2005-04-14 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 09:06:08 -0600: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 08:22:48 -0600: > > > The listowner could turn on the [PYTHON] headers. > > > > I hope they don't. > > > > What'

Re: A little request about spam

2005-04-14 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-14 08:22:48 -0600: > The listowner could turn on the [PYTHON] headers. I hope they don't. > I'm not using spambayes yet, although I'm leaning toward it, but that > step alone could save me some work when trying to decide based on > subject line alone whether or n

Re: Compute pi to base 12 using Python?

2005-04-13 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-13 03:27:06 -0700: > Bengt Richter wrote at 03:19 4/13/2005: > This is not homework, nor am I a student, though I am trying to learn > Python. I'm just trying to help an artist acquaintance who needs (I just > learned) the first 3003 digits of pi to the base 12. > >

Re: [perl-python] Python documentation moronicities (continued)

2005-04-12 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-12 03:25:33 -0700: > QUOTE > compile( > pattern[, flags]) > > Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object, > which can be used for matching using its match() and search() methods, > described below. > > The expression's behaviour can be mo

Re: semicolons

2005-04-11 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-12 00:14:03 +0200: >Hello, > > I amafraid of I will stop using semicolons in other languages after one > or two months of python. Writing in multiple programming languages is just like writing or speaking in multiple human languages: you just need to

Re: Signals and system

2005-04-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-10 20:55:05 +1000: > Hi folks, > > My python program needs to download a number of files. Each file comes > as a list of mirrors of that file. > > Currently, I am using system (os.system) to run wget. The mechanism is > in a loop, so that it will try all the mirr

Re: email and smtplib modules

2005-04-10 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-09 16:42:04 -0500: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm writing a small script that generates email and I've noticed that: > > > > 1) one should add the 'To' and 'CC' headers to the email message > > 2) one needs to specify the recip

Re: Super Newbie Question

2005-04-04 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-04-04 16:39:27 -0700: > In short, how might I go about deleting just the contents of a file? > I tried several methods with my limited knowledge but had no luck. fd = open("your-file") fd.truncate() fd.close() or open("your-file", "w").close() -- How

sys.stdout / sys.stderr, subprocess, redirection

2005-04-04 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hello, I have a piece of code that gets run in a script that has its stdout closed: import sys sys.stdout = sys.stderr c = subprocess.Popen (..., stdin = subprocess.PIPE, stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr =