Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Tiziano Bettio
PLEASE HELP... What the hell do i have to pronounce in puzzle 5 Some useful hints would be awesome thx -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-03 Thread Tiziano Bettio
Tim Peters wrote: [Tiziano Bettio] PLEASE HELP... What the hell do i have to pronounce in puzzle 5 Some useful hints would be awesome That's a funny one: I didn't understand the pronounce it hint until long after I solved that one. Then again, Guido I implemented PEP 307, so I

Re: dynamically generating temporary files through python/cgi

2005-04-28 Thread Tiziano Bettio
poisondart wrote: Is there a way to dynamically generate temporary files (such as an html, xml or text file) in Python? I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself clearly as I've no clue how to describe this mechanism. I've seen it on certain websites that will generate a file under certain parameters

Re: newbie question

2005-04-20 Thread Tiziano Bettio
Cameron Laird wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tiziano Bettio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . If u want to achieve high performance you'd rather use c++ and directly access libs like nvidias cg, ms directx or opengl... . . . Yes. Well, maybe. Python-coded programs

Re: newbie question

2005-04-19 Thread Tiziano Bettio
Just a few days earlier someone posted me the link to panda3d (www.panda3d.org) This is actually a gamengine/renderingengine on which u can develop games in python. If u want to achieve high performance you'd rather use c++ and directly access libs like nvidias cg, ms directx or opengl... for

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-14 Thread Tiziano Bettio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And how do you get the data back ? 1+0=0 == 0+0=0 0+1=1 == 1+1=1 let's say you have the end key : 0 then you want to decompress it , but in what ? 0 0 or 1 0 ;) hi there could someone please tell me that this thread wasn't a aprilsfoll day joke and it is for real... i'm

Re: Socket Error

2005-04-14 Thread Tiziano Bettio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to open a socket with python i get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ./mailer, line 3, in ? sock = socket.socket(socket.PF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) NameError: name 'socket' is not defined the code is: #!/usr/bin/python sock =

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-14 Thread Tiziano Bettio
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Tiziano Bettio wrote: could someone please tell me that this thread wasn't a aprilsfoll day joke and it is for real... i'm pretty much able to go down to a single bit but what would be the reverse algorithm as stated by martin... magic? I suggest running my script

Re: Supercomputer and encryption and compression @ rate of 96%

2005-04-14 Thread Tiziano Bettio
R. C. James Harlow wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2005 22:18, Tiziano Bettio wrote: Actually your script doesn't work on my python distribution... Works fine here - did you decompress the first bit of the python executable? You have to do that before Fredrick's script works... well i

win32 shell extension (virtual drive)

2005-03-14 Thread Tiziano Bettio
Hi there I'm looking for a simple solution of a win32 shell extension (virtual drive). It should make available a new drive with letter, which will be read-only. Instead of a network drive or similar it then should query a server application for directory/file listing. Would be nice to have a lib