How would you go about creating a heap of shortcuts to a batch file?

to apply the icon for an application at n:\path\to\application\app.exe At the moment I am looking like having to do this with VB, but I am trying hard to leave that behind for evermore. TIA googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

A question about searching with multiple strings

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list.join()... re.join()...? Do they exist? (newbie questions...)

Would someone be so kind as to fill me in? TIA! googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

number of characters. I am reading in to a script a bunch of paragraphs formatted for a webpage, but they're all on one big long line and I would like to split them for readability. TIA Googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie regular expression and whitespace question

Thanks for the great positive responses. I was close with what I was trying, I guess, but close only counts in horseshoes and um.. something else that close counts in. :-) googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python CSV writer confusion.

: sequence expected My understanding of this is that I am creating a list of lists and I am iterating over it (for image in images), and that image is a list, and is therefore iterable...? I am a bit new at this, and would greatly appreciate any assistance. TIA googleboy -- http://mail.python.org

Confused newbie needs help with __init__() takes exactly 11 arguments (1 given)

an the code and an example of the csv file in question. TIA googleboy - param1,param2,param3,param4,param5,param6,param7,param8,param9,comments data1,data2,data3,data4,data5,data6,data7,data8,data9,Comments on the item reviewed go here. Sometime, but not all the time, there might be extra

Confused newbie needs help with __init__() takes exactly 11 arguments (1 given)

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cgi form validation problems

be extremely grateful to anyone who helps me through this. TIA Googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parsing a log file

/regular_expressions.html HTH googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Some newbie cgi form questions...

this works pretty much as I expect. TIA Googleboy print 'Content-type: text/html\n\n' print htmlheader for key in form.keys(): if not form.has_key(key): print h1 ERROR! h1BR print Please go back and fill in all fields. All fields are required.br break print You entered

Re: Some newbie cgi form questions...

last): File /var/www/users/senta/html/gobooks/cgi/form.py, line 35, in ? if not form.keys()[key]: TypeError: list indices must be integers As you can see, I am using python 2.3 (my web service provider is responsible for this - I'd use 2.4.1 if I could) TIA googleboy -- http

Re: Some newbie cgi form questions...

will go bang my head against it or a few more days and then hopefully an answer will show up in my brain somewhere. Thanks for your help. Googleboy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: more newbie list questions

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Re: more newbie list questions

. It is finding my search string at teh 47th character of the sTemplate string, which is great. But it doesn't seem to want to replace the search string with the value of the author1 variable. Is there something else I am missing here? Thanks for the advice. regards, googleboy -- http

more newbie list questions

. Is it possible to do some sort of search and replace like that over a command within python? Or is there another way entirely different to accomplish such a task, like maybe assigning the path/filename to a variable... ? TIA! Googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what is the best way to determine system OS?

I did somethign that really seems far brighter... approaching it from a slightly different angle I just search through each line for the right field title, and then take that field's value from teh last line of output. Doesn't matter what OS, doesn't matter what format now. It can cope with it

Re: how can I sort a bunch of lists over multiple fields?

. Is this where using cmd functions instead of keys becomes necessary? Thanks! googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

how can I sort a bunch of lists over multiple fields?

, in ? File interactive input, line 1, in lambda IndexError: string index out of range (I was hoping for similar things) would you be so kind as to point me in the right direction? THanks! googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

what is the best way to determine system OS?

need to be able to determine not simply Linux but to know exactly what unix the script is being run on. What is the best way to determine this? Thanks! googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what is the best way to determine system OS?

very often so it is probably quite lame. B) I will have a look at platform and see what I can come up with. Delving into libraries seems a little bit much for my current level (though lots of fun). Thanks for the responses! googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list