Re: [Tutor] Memory Management etc

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Smith
Hi Thanks for response. Tried this both in IDE and DOS window including under pdb. No docstrings used at present. -i option won't help either as the machine generally reboots - python reports no problems at all. The reason I think it is memory is that the amount of memory available to the

Re: [Tutor] sockets

2006-05-05 Thread János Juhász
Hi Matt, the traceroute can be done from the client side or eigther from the server side. The two ones should give the same result with reverse order. In this case you can do the tracerouting from the server side when the client ask it. I am just thinking about a simple finger deamon, that can

Re: [Tutor] Memory Management etc

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Smith
Hi Thanks for response. I'm pretty sure for one reason and another that hardware is not at fault. I use the windows monitor to track memory usage. I must say I hadn't realised that Python doesn't release memory back to the OS - someone else advised me to try the alpha 2.5 version which cures

Re: [Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 27, Issue 12

2006-05-05 Thread Philip Smith
Hi Thanks for response. The programme is pure python (the point is to develop a programme which is as fast as it can be in python without any tricks and then to translate to C). I've tried 2.5 alpha - thanks for the suggestion. It does indeed seem to appropriately return memory to OS but

Re: [Tutor] Memory Management etc

2006-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
The reason I think it is memory is that the amount of memory available to the programme is the only variable - I'm using two identical hardware/software environments apart from this. I assume from this that you have explicitly turned off virtual memory on both machines? crashes on anything

Re: [Tutor] Memory Management etc

2006-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
realised that Python doesn't release memory back to the OS - someone else That's not at all unusual. In fact in most Unices no program ever releases memory to the OS - one reason you should be very careful when writing daemon processes! One advantage of this approach is that it speeds up

[Tutor] why different

2006-05-05 Thread linda.s
I run a code, which import Numeric module. When I run the code from PythonWin, it is OK. But when I run it from the command line, it reported Importerror: No Module named Numeric. Why the systems perform differently? Linda ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] Memory Management etc

2006-05-05 Thread Liam Clarke
Oh dear, I see Kent already posted that linked. Haha. On 5/6/06, Liam Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a specific Python gotcha involving memory allocation and pymalloc, that'll manifest with large amounts of integers. http://evanjones.ca/python-memory.html And, according to that

Re: [Tutor] Memory Management etc

2006-05-05 Thread Liam Clarke
There's a specific Python gotcha involving memory allocation and pymalloc, that'll manifest with large amounts of integers. http://evanjones.ca/python-memory.html And, according to that article, it's as Kent said, fixed in 2.5 :) Regards, Liam Clarke On 5/5/06, Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Tutor] why different

2006-05-05 Thread Liam Clarke
Hi, Can you please copy and paste the code here? Also, can you please click on Start, select Run, and type cmd.exe, and in the new window that opens type the following command: C:\echo %PATH% and then right click, select Mark, select the text that was outputted and press enter to copu it and

[Tutor] Nested list comprehensions

2006-05-05 Thread John Clark
Hello Tutors, I am having trouble wrapping my mind around nested list comprehensions and am hoping that someone can either verify my thinking or provide insight as to what I am doing wrong. I have a list of objects C1 and each object in the list has a method m() that will return a list of

Re: [Tutor] Nested list comprehensions

2006-05-05 Thread Kent Johnson
John Clark wrote: Hello Tutors, I am having trouble wrapping my mind around nested list comprehensions and am hoping that someone can either verify my thinking or provide insight as to what I am doing wrong. If I weren't trying to use list comprehensions, I would code this as: result

[Tutor] python cgi and html streams

2006-05-05 Thread doug shawhan
I've been a-googling for examples or information on recieving and parsing html streams in a cgi script. I need to send a request like: ''http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/responder.cgi?foo=hibar=therebat=buddyidentifier=myname to a remote server which will then stream a response to my script, similar

Re: [Tutor] why different

2006-05-05 Thread linda.s
I have two drives. The python24 is installed in c: and the code isin d: drive (d:\data). so what I did is: d:\data c:\python24\python test.py On 5/5/06, Liam Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,Can you please copy and paste the code here? Also, can you pleaseclick on Start, select Run, and type

Re: [Tutor] why different

2006-05-05 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 5 May 2006, linda.s wrote: I have two drives. The python24 is installed in c: and the code is in d: drive (d:\data). so what I did is: d:\data c:\python24\python test.py Hi Linda, Can you copy and paste the code to test.py? I suspect that the code does not contain a necessary

Re: [Tutor] python cgi and html streams

2006-05-05 Thread Danny Yoo
I was hoping for something magical like: gulp = cgi.StreamIO( http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/responder.cgi?foo=hibar=therebat=buddy;).read() ... but for some reason not one of the python creators foresaw that I might one day need them to do all the thinking, typing and other hard parts for

[Tutor] Calling one python module from another

2006-05-05 Thread Mitchel Carlsen
Is there an easy way to call on python module (called.py) from another (calling.py)? I have been able to do this using'rc = os.system("called.py")'. Is this the suggested method?Thanks, Mitch___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] Calling one python module from another

2006-05-05 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, 5 May 2006, Mitchel Carlsen wrote: Is there an easy way to call on python module (called.py) from another (calling.py)? I have been able to do this using 'rc = os.system(called.py)' . Is this the suggested method? Hi Mitch, If you are looking for modules, you may want to take a

[Tutor] Malcolm S Britton is out of the office.

2006-05-05 Thread Malcolm . S . Britton
I will be out of the office starting 05/05/2006 and will not return until 05/09/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Nested list comprehensions

2006-05-05 Thread Alan Gauld
I am having trouble wrapping my mind around nested list comprehensions I do too, and usually when that happens I take it as a sign that I'm being too clever for my own good. I unwrap things back to the point where my brain doesn't hurt anymore... I think I've only seen two or three nested

Re: [Tutor] why different

2006-05-05 Thread linda.s
You are right. When I switch to python23 folder, it works.On 5/5/06, Danny Yoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Fri, 5 May 2006, linda.s wrote: I have two drives. The python24 is installed in c: and the code is in d: drive (d:\data). so what I did is: d:\data c:\python24\python test.pyHi Linda,Can you