Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for python?

2007-03-09 Thread Dick Moores
At 05:04 PM 3/9/2007, Dick Moores wrote: >At 04:22 PM 3/9/2007, ALAN GAULD wrote: > >http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html > >An Alice in Wonderland world of weirdness! Now here's a world I like: >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for python?

2007-03-09 Thread Dick Moores
At 04:22 PM 3/9/2007, ALAN GAULD wrote: >http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html An Alice in Wonderland world of weirdness! Dick ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for python?

2007-03-09 Thread ALAN GAULD
> >I'd have thought it was pretty self evident. >> The lazier you are the more automation and assistance you >> want the IDE to provide. > > Maybe, but watch your logic. Wanting more automation and assistance > does not imply laziness. Wanting a washing machine for washing Ah, but remember that

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for python?

2007-03-09 Thread Rob Andrews
It may be worthwhile to note that "laziness" isn't necessarily a derogatory term in programming circles. To quote Eric S. Raymond, who turned me on to Python as much as any other (in _The Art of Unix Programming_), "Constructive laziness is one of the cardinal virtues of the master programmer." -R

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for python?

2007-03-09 Thread Dick Moores
At 02:02 PM 3/9/2007, you wrote: >"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > >>Which IDE to use is no more than a matter of taste and laziness. > > > > Wow! Care to support that statement? > >I'd have thought it was pretty self evident. >The lazier you are the more automation and assistance you >

Re: [Tutor] building an interactive deamon

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Thanos Panousis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > How can I make a daemon that does not need to be restarted > every time a configuration is changed? There are several ways to do this. Simplest if you are sleeping for periods is simply to re-read the config after every wake-up. Other options incliu

Re: [Tutor] Parsing Word Docs

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Stephen Nelson-Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Now... I want to convert this to a cgi-script... how do I grab > $QUERY_STRING in python? Have you looked at the cgi module and the web topic guides? The examples are fairly complete. http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts -- Alan Gauld Aut

Re: [Tutor] Best IDE for python?

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >>Which IDE to use is no more than a matter of taste and laziness. > > Wow! Care to support that statement? I'd have thought it was pretty self evident. The lazier you are the more automation and assistance you want the IDE to provide. But if you are a tra

Re: [Tutor] recommendation for good OO book?

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Gauld
"Jeff Peery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I really don't utilize this object oriented stuff in a good way. > Does anyone have a favorite book regarding the basics/intro > to object oriented programming, how to write good OO code?? There are lots of books tackle this and it depends on your preferre

Re: [Tutor] How do to an svn checkout using the svn module?

2007-03-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > On 3/9/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Did you find the pysvn Programmer's Guide that comes with pysvn? It has >> this example: > > Ah.. no I haven't got pysvn installed... but will take a look. Seems like a good idea. What package are you using

Re: [Tutor] Parsing Word Docs

2007-03-09 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On 3/8/07, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simplest thing's probably antiword (http://www.winfield.demon.nl/) > and then whatever text-scanning approach you want. I've gone for: #!/usr/bin/env python import glob, os url = "/home/cherp/prddoc" searchstring = "dxpolbl.p" worddocs = [] f

Re: [Tutor] How do to an svn checkout using the svn module?

2007-03-09 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
On 3/9/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you find the pysvn Programmer's Guide that comes with pysvn? It has > this example: Ah.. no I haven't got pysvn installed... but will take a look. What I do have is: >>> import sys >>> import svn.core >>> import svn.client >>> import

Re: [Tutor] How do to an svn checkout using the svn module?

2007-03-09 Thread Kent Johnson
Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > Hello, > > I want to do a simple svn checkout using the python svn module. I > haven't been able to find any/much/basic documentation that discusses > such client operations. Did you find the pysvn Programmer's Guide that comes with pysvn? It has this example: imp

[Tutor] How do to an svn checkout using the svn module?

2007-03-09 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith
Hello, I want to do a simple svn checkout using the python svn module. I haven't been able to find any/much/basic documentation that discusses such client operations. This should be very easy, I imagine! What do I need to do? S. ___ Tutor maillist -

Re: [Tutor] please unsubscribe me

2007-03-09 Thread Luke Paireepinart
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