Re: Trouble using XML Reader

2008-03-04 Thread Mike D
On 3/3/08, Mike D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using XML Reader (xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader) to create an rss > reader. > > I can parse the file but am unsure how to extract the elements I require. > For example: For each element I want the tit

Re: Command line arguments in Windows

2008-03-03 Thread Mike Walker
\>ftype python.file python.file="C:\Python25\python.exe" "%1" %* I am using Python 2.5.2 from http://www.python.org/ running on Windows Vista. Would ActiveState's version be a better choice here? ~Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Command line arguments in Windows

2008-03-03 Thread Mike Walker
> If you run a python file, ie. just double clicking it the only > argument you will have will be the filename of the script. If you > create a shortcut to the script and in the target box add your > arguments (if you have quotation marks place them after not inside) > you will see your arguments

Command line arguments in Windows

2008-03-03 Thread Mike Walker
I am having some problems with command line arguments in Windows. The same code under Linux works fine. In Windows I only get one argument no matter how many arguments are passed on the command line. I think there is some problem with the way the .py files are associated causing this. I'm just

Re: Talking to a usb device (serial terminal)

2008-03-03 Thread Mike Kent
> So my question is this - what is the easiest way to interface to this > "serial" device? > http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ or perhaps http://pyusb.berlios.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Regex loop question

2008-03-03 Thread Mike P
match.groups()[0] = "Activity_Time" time_manips = ("""COMPUTE %s = SUBSTR(%s,(INDEX(%s,'T'))+1) . COMPUTE %s = number(%s, TIME8). VARIABLE LABEL %s. VARIABLE LEVEL %s (SCALE). FORMATS %s (TIME8). VARIABLE WIDTH %s (8). EXECUTE.""") %(Var, Var, Var,time_variables[Var],Var,time_variables[Var],time_variables[Var],time_variables[Var],time_variables[Var]) print(time_manips) All help welcome, or if a different approach is better please let me know Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Trouble using XML Reader

2008-03-03 Thread Mike D
Hello, I'm using XML Reader (xml.sax.xmlreader.XMLReader) to create an rss reader. I can parse the file but am unsure how to extract the elements I require. For example: For each element I want the title and description. I have some stub code; I want to create a list of objects which include a

Re: Run wxPython app remotely under XWindows

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Driscoll
the server? > > Just to close the loop I think think this is a problem with the ssh > server. > > ~Sean If it's not the server, then please post the issue to the wxPython list. They can probably help: http://wxpython.org/maillist.php Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Portable linux python install

2008-02-26 Thread Mike M
simple as installing the appropriate compat-* libraries. Is this possible? If so, what are the steps to do it? Has anyone ever tried to do something similar? I apologize if this is a ridiculously simple question, but things like this always throw me for a loop. Thanks in advance for any assi

Re: Windows System Administration: State of the Art on Python?

2008-02-26 Thread Mike Driscoll
c.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html Tell us what you want to do and we'll tell you if (and maybe how) you can do it with Python. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python code for 2.5 and 2.4?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
th the code that Robert gave you. I'm not sure of the exact syntax, but I would think you could do an IF statement that creates the custom definition and returns it if Python 2.4 or less is installed and return the normal version for 2.5 if it is installed. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python code for 2.5 and 2.4?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
at the beginning of your file by importing the sys module. Something like this: # untested import sys version = sys.version.split(' ')[0] if '2.5' not in version: # use custom all() script HTH Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Reading a keypress

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
his in a cross-platform way: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/134892 And a Windows only module: http://effbot.org/librarybook/msvcrt.htm HTH Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: simpleparse - what is wrong with my grammar?

2008-02-25 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
7;s sat on my "would be nice" list for a long time. Unlike separate lexing/parsing systems, it's a little more involved for SimpleParse to do that without losing the generality of the parsing approach (i.e. the flexibility of a non-lexed approach). HTH, Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
efer exiv2 as it is much > faster:http://picurl.net/development/wiki/Exiv2vsExifTool > > I hope this gives enough pointers for people to bring EXIF & IPTC > support to Python and Phatch. > > Good luck, > Stani > -- > Phatch - PHoto bATCH processor -http://photobatch.stani.be > SPE- Python Editor & IDE -http://pythonide.stani.be I'll keep you posted, Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: simpleparse - what is wrong with my grammar?

2008-02-24 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
t;&"/"@") word:= [a-zA-Z], [a-zA-Z0-9_]* the ?- lookahead is reasonably inefficient, but lookahead is always going around discarding partial results anyway, so it's no worse than most other formulations. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 22, 2:39 am, "SPE - Stani's Python Editor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 22, 1:41 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Feb 20, 4:19 am, Stani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Even without python-pyexiv2 Phatch feat

Re: OT: Ideas for a first course using Python

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
guy's been doing it for a while now as a college course: http://mcsp.wartburg.edu/zelle/python/python-first.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python on Windows Help

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
import servicemanager > > servicemanager.LogInfoMsg("aservice - Recieved stop signal") > self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) > self.isAlive = False > > if __name__ == '__main__': > win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(BlobCheck) I would recommend cross-posting this to the PyWin32 mailing list. They'll either know what to do or tell you you can't. You can sign up here: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: Phatch = PHoto bATCH processor and renamer based on PIL

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
can give me advice. > > But... Phatch is designed with flexibility in mind. If someone can point me > to a > free python library for Windows for EXIF and other metadata, I'll be happy to > integrate support for it in Phatch. Ideas anyone? > > Or you could write a python wrapper around the executable. > > Stani > -- > Phatch -http://photobatch.stani.be > SPE -http://pythonide.stani.be Thanks, Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython Plot always comes to focus on redraw

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
he wxPython list where you'll get wx geeks to answer your question and you can learn a lot from them too. Here's a link where you can sign up: http://wxpython.org/maillist.php Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: understaning "self"

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
nvention, this argument is always named self. In the __init__ method, self refers to the newly created object; in other class methods, it refers to the instance whose method was called. Although you need to specify self explicitly when defining the method, you do not specify it when calling the method; Python will add it for you automatically." Hope that helps. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pmw Use and Grayson's Book

2008-02-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
ut the > > lib he includes? Same folder as the example? > > Library modules (like Pmw) generally belong in site-packages (/usr/lib/ > python2.x/site-packages in most unixes... not sure about windows). > > HTH, > > Pete On Windows, most packages go here (adjust as needed for your setup): C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pmw Use and Grayson's Book

2008-02-17 Thread Mike Driscoll
think is now included with Python be default from 2.4 on up. It should be noted that PMW is not included with the standard Python distro though. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Cleaning Up an Application When the Window is Closed

2008-02-17 Thread Mike Driscoll
DELETE_WINDOW" in Tkinter. The following article details its usage near the bottom of the page under the heading "Protocols": http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/events-and-bindings.htm It actually mentions your problem specifically. I've never done it as I

Re: basic wxpython help

2008-02-17 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 16, 3:06 pm, Vamp4L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Mike, > Simple enough! I was wandering about the close method too, I had to > hack that together from what I knew about python already. I'll be > sure to join that mailing list. If you get the chance, che

Re: Pop-up Menu of a Graphics Image?

2008-02-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
Wayne Watson (Nevada City, CA) > > Web Page: wxPython can do a right-click menu like that and I know that PIL has been integrated into it as well. They have a Demo on the wxPython.org website that shows off all the official widgets as well as some custom scripts. If yo

Re: basic wxpython help

2008-02-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
parent Then change your close event handler to this: def OnButtonClose(self, evt): dlg = wx.MessageDialog(self, "Are you sure you want to exit?", "Exit", wx.YES_NO | wx.ICON_QUESTION) if dlg.ShowModal() == wx.ID_YES: self.frame.Close() dl

Re: Help Parsing an HTML File

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
-4 > > > --HTML Example End-- Pyparsing, ElementTree and lxml are all good candidates as well. BeautifulSoup takes care of malformed html though. http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm http://codespeak.net/lxml/ Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: win32com.client question

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 13, 8:05 am, Juan_Pablo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > import win32com.client > is posible in linux ? No. It's a Windows only Python extension. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Recommended data structure/ implementation

2008-02-12 Thread Mike D
I have a simple requirement: A user belongs to groups and groups contain items. Based on user/group I want to display items. Based on user I want to display groups. What would be the best method of implementing this? A dictionary of objects? I'd usually just use a database but I feel it's quite

Re: IDLE Won't Start w/o Socket Error--Win XP

2008-02-12 Thread Mike Driscoll
flag IDLE when I first installed Python, so if you upgraded it recently, the firewall may be an issue. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CSV Reader

2008-02-12 Thread Mike P
I was just trying to do it with the CSV module -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CSV Reader

2008-02-12 Thread Mike P
Hi Chris that's exactley what i wanted to do, Many thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: CSV Reader

2008-02-12 Thread Mike P
just saw i needed to change record.startswith to row.startswith but i get hte following traceback error Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework \scriptutils.py", line 310, in RunScript exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__ File "Y:\te

Re: CSV Reader

2008-02-12 Thread Mike P
dule description but i can't find anything that i hould be using? Can anyone offer an advice? Cheers again Mike working_CSV = "//filer/common/technical/Research/E2C/Template_CSV/ DFAExposureToConversionQueryTool.csv" save_file = "//filer/common/technical/Research/E2C/Templa

Re: wxpython file dialog

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Feb 11, 2008 12:14 PM, Guilherme Polo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/2/11, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Feb 10, 6:41 am, Janwillem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Guilherme Polo wrote: > > > > 2008/2/10, Janwillem &l

Re: wxpython file dialog

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
(it's pascal and freepascal has a problem I have to dive > into). What is your application supposed to do? In the meantime, I recommend looking at this control: http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/ThumbnailCtrl.html You can probably get what you need from it. I also highly recom

Re: CSV Reader

2008-02-11 Thread Mike P
Cheers for the help, the second way looked to be the best in the end, and thanks for the boolean idea Mike working_CSV = "//filer/common/technical/Research/E2C/Template_CSV/ DFAExposureToConversionQueryTool.csv" save_file = open("//filer/common/technical/Research/E2C/Template

Re: CSV Reader

2008-02-11 Thread Mike P
nes number where i can see Transaction ID and then write out everything from this point into a new datafile. Would a better solution be just to use readlines and search for the string with a counter and then write out a file from there? Any help is greatly appreciated Mike working_CSV = "

CSV Reader

2008-02-11 Thread Mike P
obvioulsy this doesn't work but any help would be great. import csv f = file(working_CSV, 'rb') new_data = 0 # a counter to find where the line starts with "Transaction ID" reader = csv.reader(f) for data in reader: read data file write new CSV Cheers Mike -- http:/

Re: wxpython thread question

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Driscoll
t; Any help and explanation or code sample GREATLY appreciated. > > Do I have to rewrite class I am using (CLI client) to work with > threads to make this happen > > Thanks, This is a confusing post as Dennis pointed out. I am glad he was so analytical. Anyway, if you had post

Re: Paramiko SFTP autologon using id_dsa.pub

2008-02-06 Thread Mike Hjorleifsson
sorry i meant a code example that i pass the id_dsa.pub file contents too so i am not reliant on the host system to have the ssh-agent. On Feb 6, 3:09 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Hjorleifsson wrote: > > Thanks for the response, is there an exam

Re: Paramiko SFTP autologon using id_dsa.pub

2008-02-06 Thread Mike Hjorleifsson
Thanks for the response, is there an example bit of code somewhere i could digest ? On Feb 6, 1:35 pm, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote a lil module using paramiko's module to send a file via > > sftp.. it works great using the username and password. > > I would prefer to u

Paramiko SFTP autologon using id_dsa.pub

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Hjorleifsson
I wrote a lil module using paramiko's module to send a file via sftp.. it works great using the username and password. I would prefer to use id_dsa.pub to have an autologon and not save the password anywhere on the disk.. I cant find a good example of this. Can anyone help ? -- http://mail.python.

Re: What does % mean/does in this context?

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Hjorleifsson
At first glance it looks like a replace for _button_cart with the dictionary items listed in the curly braces and stuffing them into a list item (cartitems) On Feb 2, 8:47 am, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for item in cart.values(): > > v = _button_cart % {"idx": idx,

Re: How to autorun a python script when a specific user logs on?

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Hjorleifsson
on windows you can put this in HKEY_Local_Machine\Software\Microsoft \Windows\Current Version\Run and it will run at logon (or fast user switch) for each user or if you only want to do it for a specific user you need to determine their CSLID and put it in the same locale under the HKEY_USERS\Users

Re: Broke my IDLE!

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Hjorleifsson
Anyone know how to get idle working on OSX 10.5 (Leopard) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: IronPython vs CPython: faster in 1.6 times?

2008-02-05 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
maller problem domain than optimising *every* language). > And is it possible to use IronPython in Linux? > Yes, running on Mono, though again, I don't believe Mono has had the optimisation effort put in to make it competitive with MS's platforms. Just my view from out in the boonies, Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Removing the Close, Min, Maximize and frame with ANY gui toolkit

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Driscoll
o that there's some Linux variant out there that will display the minimize button regardless. If all you want is a non-modal dialog, you might look at the wx.Dialog widget or one of the popup widgets. There's also a Toaster widget... I found this link about Tkinter: http://mail.

Re: PyOpenGL

2008-02-04 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
ur import until after you have the context setup and see if that lets glGetString return a valid pointer. HTH, Mike -- Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

What should I use under *nix instead of freeze?

2008-02-01 Thread Mike Kent
In a comment Guido made on a recent bug report for the 'freeze' utility, he stated: "I think nobody really cares about freeze any more -- it isn't maintained." That being the case, what is the preferred/best replacement for freeze on a *nix platform? I'm looking for something that, like freeze,

Re: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Mike D
ugh it would be much safer. I'll continue to investigate, thanks for your input. On Feb 1, 2008 11:00 AM, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike D wrote: > > Steve, > > > > Thanks for the response. My question really comes down to, as you > > suggest

RE: Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-31 Thread Mike D
? Really? I think I should have said process start up, for example a long running process that can supply the object to new ones, loaded on webserver start up. I appreciate comments, It is purely so I can understand python and program design better. Regards, Mike On Feb 1, 2008 12:09 AM, S

Design question - Sharing of single object by multiple processes

2008-01-30 Thread Mike D
ble, what would be a good way of providing a new structure as it is updated. If anyone could give me some advice or point me in the correct direction I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Mike. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: event handling

2008-01-30 Thread Mike Driscoll
n a file or "file-like" object and have your other thread read from it periodically. I'm not sure that the link above mentions that. Hope that helps! Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Question on importing wxPython

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
't a hypothetical question? > steveo at syslang.net I think the issue is that you are using the old style of wxPython. The new style is wx.Something, so in this case, you want wx.NewId(). See sample code below: import wx new_id = wx.NewId() This helps the developer know what library that funct

Re: wx.EVT_RIGHT_UP strangeness?

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Driscoll
7.1 What OS and wxPython version are you using? You may want to post to the wxPython user's group too. They can tell you if it is an OS dependent bug or not: http://wxpython.org/maillist.php Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: raw_input(), STRANGE behaviour

2008-01-26 Thread Mike Kent
On Jan 26, 7:23 am, Dox33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran into a very strange behaviour of raw_input(). > I hope somebody can tell me how to fix this. ===CUT=== > *** Thirst, redirect stderr to file, STRANGE behaviour.. > From the command prompt I run: > python script.py 2> stderr_catch.txt

Re: Ideas for Python Programming

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
gt; Could anyone suggest any really good program ideas and information on > how to implement them? I heartily welcome any good ideas. Why not do a search on SourceForge and see what's being programmed in Python? Then you could get ideas and/or join some of those projects. Mike -- htt

Re: Python ADO Date Time database fields

2008-01-25 Thread Mike Driscoll
:00 AM" - (the trick for the date types in Perl is to add: "use > Win32::OLE::Variant;" > > There has to be a way:^) > > snip You could try posting to the PyWin32 group too. They would probably know. http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32 Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python ADO Date Time database fields

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
:00:00 > > What do I to get exactly what's in the field? > > Thanks, > > Lee G I don't know for sure, so I practiced my Google-Fu and found this recipe which might be of use to you: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52267 I also found this script, w

Re: Reporting Python bugs (was: Can someone explain this unexpectedraw_input behavior?)

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Kent
On Jan 24, 5:13 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ben Finney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Mike Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > A bug issue has been opened in the Python Trac

Re: Can someone explain this unexpected raw_input behavior?

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Kent
> If it weren't for the documentation... > > "If the prompt argument is present, it is written to *standard output* > without a trailing newline." > > -- > mvh Björn I have reported this issue to the python-dev mailing list, and Guido agrees that this is a bug in Python. It turns out that the ke

Re: Ignore exceptions

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
ember of > something like that in C++ but I cant find anythin like that for python. > > SMALLp See the try statement: http://docs.python.org/ref/try.html http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/pytut/HandlingExceptions.html http://docs.python.org/api/exceptionHandling.html Mike -- http://

Re: Which reportlab version for python 2.1.3?

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
k you can just use the latest version. Just download it, unzip it somewhere convenient and then navigate to that location using the command line. Then type the following (as long as Python is in your system path): python setup.py install or if Python isn't on your path: path\to\python\python

Re: Connecting to Sql Server from Python

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
ia perl, > > Thanks, > > Barry. If you want to do this in Perl, then why are you asking on a Python list? In Python, there are many ways to accomplish this task. Take a look at SQLAlchemy, SQLObject, pymssql or the adodb package. http://pymssql.sourceforge.net/ www.sqlalchemy.org http

Re: wxpython

2008-01-24 Thread Mike Driscoll
pen exes or pictures, but most files that are in plain text it opens with no problem. Editra has its own site: http://editra.org/ The mailing list for wxPython can be found here: http://wxpython.org/maillist.php Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Can someone explain this unexpected raw_input behavior?

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kent
Gabriel, thank you for clarifying the source of this behavior. Still, I'm surprised it would be hard-coded into Python. Consider an interactive program, that asks the user several questions, and displays paragraphs of information based on those questions. The paragraphs are output using print, a

Can someone explain this unexpected raw_input behavior?

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kent
It's often useful for debugging to print something to stderr, and to route the error output to a file using '2>filename' on the command line. However, when I try that with a python script, all prompt output from raw_input goes to stderr. Consider the following test program: === Start test.py ===

Re: Processing XML that's embedded in HTML

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jan 22, 5:31 pm, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 10:57 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Hi, > > > I need to parse a fairly complex HTML page that has XML embedded in > > it. I've done parsing before with the xml.dom.minid

Re: Processing XML that's embedded in HTML

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
0, in -toplevel- for row in tree.iterfind("//Row"): AttributeError: 'etree._ElementTree' object has no attribute 'iterfind' Is there some kind of newer version of lxml? Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Processing XML that's embedded in HTML

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Driscoll
John and Stefan, On Jan 23, 5:33 am, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > I got lxml to create a tree by doing the following: > > > from lxml import etree > > from StringIO import StringIO > > > parser = etree

Re: How avoid both a newline and a space between 2 print commands?

2008-01-23 Thread Mike Kent
On Jan 23, 9:03 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > print "foo" > print "bar" > > has a newline in between "foo" and "bar" > > print "foo", > print "bar" > > has a space in between "foo" and "bar" > > How prevent ANYTHING from going in between "foo" and "bar" ?? > > (Without defini

Re: translating Python to Assembler...sorry if this is duplicated...it's unintentional

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
fUnseparablePythonSymbols I can't get it to load unless I use Google's cached version though. Hope that helps and that I'm not too far off the mark! Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: get the size of a dynamically changing file fast ?

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jan 22, 3:35 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Driscoll wrote: > > On Jan 17, 3:56 pm, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> hello, > > >> I've a program (not written in Python) that generates a few thousands >

Re: Processing XML that's embedded in HTML

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
l import etree from StringIO import StringIO parser = etree.HTMLParser() tree = etree.parse(filename, parser) xml_string = etree.tostring(tree) context = etree.iterparse(StringIO(xml_string)) However, when I iterate over the contents of "context", I can't figure out how t

Re: Boa constructor debugging - exec some code at breakpoint?

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
; > Joel > > P.S. Please CC a copy of reply to my email ID if possible. IDLE does breakpoints...you might fine the ActiveState distro more to your liking too. It's a little bit more fleshed out as an IDE than IDLE is. Or you could go full blown and use Eclipse with the Python plug-in. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Processing XML that's embedded in HTML

2008-01-22 Thread Mike Driscoll
. Can someone give me some pointers? I am currently using Python 2.5 on Windows XP. I will be using Internet Explorer 6 since the document will not display correctly in Firefox. Thank you very much! Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to use py2exe ...

2008-01-21 Thread Mike Driscoll
y files? You should also check out the py2exe website as it has a tutorial, a link to their mailing list, etc: http://www.py2exe.org/ Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: TopSort in Python?

2008-01-20 Thread Mike C. Fletcher
ore I knew the name IIRC)). > P.S. we have revived a thread started in 1999! > For some of us 1999 is well into our Pythonic life-cycle :) Have fun, Mike -- ____ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http:

Re: What is a shortcut to the Default home directory in Windows

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
that > in windows. Or to get to their "Documents and Settings" directory? > > Thanks in advance for the help. > > -Daniel Folkes I personally use Tim Golden's excellent win32 API wrapper, the winshell script. You can find it here: http://timgolden.me.uk/python/winshell.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Core Python Programming . . .

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
hink the OP may be referring to this: 6-11 Conversion. (a) Create a program that will convert from an integer to an Internet Protocol (IP) address in the four-octet format of WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ (b) Update your program to be able to do the vice verse of the above. It could be a 12 digit

Re: Pythonland documentation

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
ux user #458601 -http://counter.li.org. Well, there's DocUtils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ And here are some others: http://peak.telecommunity.com/protocol_ref/protocols-example1.html And finally, there's this: http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/doc-sig/otherlangs/ Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: get the size of a dynamically changing file fast ?

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Driscoll
ges.html This old post also mentions something similar: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-October/463065.html And here's a cookbook recipe that claims to do it as well using decorators: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/426620 Hopefully that will get you going. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A question about event handlers with wxPython

2008-01-16 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jan 16, 12:45 pm, "Erik Lind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mike Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Jan 15, 2:20 pm, "Erik Lind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That

Re: Restart crashing modules in windows

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jan 15, 2008 5:08 PM, Astan Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mike Driscoll wrote: > On Jan 14, 9:02 pm, Astan Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > I have a python module that keeps on crashing with various windows > errors (not BSOD but the les

Re: A question about event handlers with wxPython

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
On Jan 15, 2:20 pm, "Erik Lind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That all looks cool. I will experiment more. I'm a bit slow on this as only > two weeks old so far. > > Thanks for the patience No problem. I'm pretty slow with some toolkits too...s

Re: Open existing Word document, modify and save.

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
te has a special version of Python that includes a COM browser and you can install it without harming your current installation. At least, I've had no problems. Other than that, you'll probably be spending a lot of time on MSDN. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A question about event handlers with wxPython

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
ample, "press any button to stop" > > def HandleSomething(self, event): > . > while generating_control: == something: > run > else > stop I forgot to provide a link to a fairly straight-forward explanation of event propagati

Re: A question about event handlers with wxPython

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
print 'Stop!' event.Skip() def onDone(self, event): print 'Done!' if __name__ == '__main__': app = wx.PySimpleApp() Closer().Show() app.MainLoop() FYI: There is an excellent wxPython group that you can join over on the wxPython.org website. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Restart crashing modules in windows

2008-01-15 Thread Mike Driscoll
al program > to restart python everytime it crashes? > Thanks again for all the help. > Astan If you're not going to catch the error that is causing the crash, then I think your only option is to restart your application with an external program. However, maybe someone else will have a b

Re: wxpython-wx.CheckListBox: changing item bacgkground color

2008-01-14 Thread Mike
python's user group, which you can find at the wxPython website: www.wxpython.org Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: super, decorators and gettattribute

2008-01-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:45:25 -0800 (PST) Richard Szopa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am playing around w/ Python's object system and decorators and I > decided to write (as an exercise) a decorator that (if applied to a > method) would call the superclass' method of the same name

Re: where do my python files go in linux?

2008-01-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:13:08 +0100 "Jorgen Bodde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Normally you'd split up the bulk of the code into a module which gets > > installed into site-packages and a piece of stand-alone front-end code which > > imports the module and executes whatever you need to do and get

Re: Import and execfile()

2008-01-12 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:55:07 -0800 (PST) George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 11, 5:24 pm, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:05:11 -0800 (PST) George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I mainta

Re: Great Python books for the beginner

2008-01-12 Thread Mike
ot;If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing | > `\ is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. | > _o__) You see, we build to that." -- Jack Handey | > Ben Finney I would recommend Lutz's other book, the wonderfu

Re: Newbie Q: modifying SQL statements

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:11:41 -0500 "Faber J. Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/01/08 22:53 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Personally, I think it would be more pythonic to not try and use two > > different APIs to walk the list of jobs (... One Way To Do

Re: encrypting python modules

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:47:26 +1100 Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Sijben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I know that I can not stop a dedicated hacker deconstructing my code. > A direct consequence of this is that you can not stop *anyone* from > deconstructing your code if it's in t

Re: for loop without variable

2008-01-11 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:18:22 GMT Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marty: > > I recently faced a similar issue doing something like this: > > data_out = [] > > for i in range(len(data_in)): > > data_out.append([]) > > Another way to write this is > data_out = [[]] * le

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