Re: passing command line arguments

2007-09-07 Thread darren kirby
' % \ (sys.argv[0], string.join(sys.argv[1:])) any help would be greatly appreciated -Brian -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

My 'time' module is broken, unsure of cause

2007-08-23 Thread darren kirby
-- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: My 'time' module is broken, unsure of cause

2007-08-23 Thread darren kirby
/python2.4/lib-dynload/time.so Jean-Paul Ahh, so it was pebkac. Thanks Jean-Paul, I can be thick sometimes... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson

Re: Can a low-level programmer learn OOP?

2007-07-14 Thread darren kirby
? http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PHP5 programmer learning Python

2007-05-27 Thread darren kirby
into Python. [2] Have fun, -d [1] http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June

Re: Reading (and writing?) audio file tags

2007-05-24 Thread darren kirby
suitable, I'll probably go back to dumping the tags via a generic MP3 tag reader program, then manipulate them as a text file, then try to do some sort of bulk reload. Thanks, Paul. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations

Re: help - python can't find file

2007-05-21 Thread darren kirby
that you could use some reading on Linux CLI usage. You say you have some Linux books? I say this as my reading of your message indicates your problems lie with misunderstanding the shell/paths etc, not with Python itself... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http

Re: stock quotes

2006-09-14 Thread Darren Kirby
On 9/13/06, Donlingerfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to download stock quotes from the web, store them, do calculations and sort the results. However I am fairly new and don't have a clue how to parse the results of a web page download. I can get to the site, but do not know how

Re: Twisted vs POS (Plain-old sockets)

2006-09-04 Thread Darren Kirby
On 9/3/06, Jean-Paul Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 00:19:17 -0700, Darren Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I have a (FOSS) project here that I am about to start that requires TCP networking support, and in fact, will require me to design and implement a (text

Twisted vs POS (Plain-old sockets)

2006-09-03 Thread Darren Kirby
really just fishing for opinions here...If it makes a difference: Depending on performance parts of this app may well end up as a prototype for a final (...alternative?) C++ implementation.Thanks for consideration,-d-- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org

Re: Favorite flavor of Linux? (for python or anything else)

2005-12-04 Thread darren kirby
a network of similar systems. emerge from source on your staging server, build a bin package, and push it to the rest of the systems. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org/ ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis

Re: exception KeyboardInterrupt and os.system command

2005-11-28 Thread darren kirby
if I could find a reason for this behavior, and the site tells me the package is unmaintained, and has security flaws which will not be fixed. So I guess I will find a new mp3 decoder... -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX

exception KeyboardInterrupt and os.system command

2005-11-27 Thread darren kirby
is Linux, if it matters. If you need to see the code it is here: http://badcomputer.org/unix/dir2ogg/dir2ogg.bot Although, this code is the program as it stands, not the code I am testing. Thanks, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX

Re: Windows vs Linux [was: p2exe using wine/cxoffice]

2005-10-26 Thread darren kirby
will be indebted to them and it will increase my chances of switching to Linux a bit! (Although not at work where I have no choice!) Try ctrl-r in bash, then type your first few letters... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has

Re: output from external commands

2005-10-24 Thread darren kirby
-- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgpPYTSvHOmSy.pgp Description: PGP signature -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[OT] Re: output from external commands

2005-10-24 Thread darren kirby
get over this silly stage I seem to be stuck in... it just doesn't seem worth it. I am not trying to sound like a whiner here, I just wish you experts would go easy on us novices... -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations

Re: Formatting Time

2005-06-03 Thread darren kirby
seconds? This will only work if 'seconds' is an int ( al la ' 44342865') but maybe it could help you? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-05-02 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Reinhold Birkenfeld: Somehow writing '[a-z]{1}' is strange... Reinhold t = /text of page source.../ re.findall('[a-z][A-Z]{3}[a-z][A-Z]{3}[a-z]', t) Sorry dude! When it comes to logic puzzles I am easily frustrated, and that leads to unclear thinking... -d -- darren kirby

Re: Python Challenge ahead [NEW] for riddle lovers

2005-04-29 Thread darren kirby
* but the thing said 'exactly' right, well there are 10 results in the form *sBBBsBBBs* None of them seem to work... I quit ;) -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken