Re: [Tutor] Design Question: File Object used everywhere

2010-05-13 Thread Luke Paireepinart
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Jan Jansen wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm working on a code to read and write large amounts of binary data > according to a given specification. In the specification there are a lot of > "segments" defined. The segments in turn have defintions of datatypes and > what

[Tutor] Design Question: File Object used everywhere

2010-05-13 Thread Jan Jansen
Hi there, I'm working on a code to read and write large amounts of binary data according to a given specification. In the specification there are a lot of "segments" defined. The segments in turn have defintions of datatypes and what they represent, how many of some of the data values are pres

Re: [Tutor] raw_input a directory path

2010-05-13 Thread Hugo Arts
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Dave Angel wrote: > The other approach is to have the user type in the text according to some > escaping language (like the one used for literals), and explicitly decode > that after the raw_input().  I thought there was a way in the stdlib, but I > can't seem to f

Re: [Tutor] raw_input a directory path

2010-05-13 Thread Hugo Arts
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Spencer Parker wrote: > In these files I also have some special characters I need to remove, but I > cannot figure out how to specify this. > I need to remove a vertical tab and a formfeed character.  How would I > specify to remove these characters?  I have tried

Re: [Tutor] raw_input a directory path

2010-05-13 Thread Spencer Parker
In these files I also have some special characters I need to remove, but I cannot figure out how to specify this. I need to remove a vertical tab and a formfeed character. How would I specify to remove these characters? I have tried \v and \f On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Spencer Parker wrot

Re: [Tutor] raw_input a directory path

2010-05-13 Thread Spencer Parker
I figured out the issue...for some reason it works with the trailing slash, but not without it. Once I do that...everything is all good... On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > > > Spencer Parker wrote: > >> Here is the code: >> http://dpaste.com/hold/193862/ >> >>

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-13 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
Thanks for all of the feedback. The work continues. Unfortunately I think the admin interface is only for internal lists, not emails outside the server. Thanks matt Matthew Pirritano, Ph.D. Research Analyst IV Medical Services Initiative (MSI) Orange County Health Care Agency (714) 568-5648 --

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-13 Thread Pirritano, Matthew
I appreciate the effort to help! I work for the county. If we were a business, or maybe just in better economic times maybe we could afford a program that does email distribution lists. I believe that is the way the companies probably deal with this. Here's what Microsoft says about the size o

Re: [Tutor] Character creator program

2010-05-13 Thread Ben Millane
> > Ok, thank you everyone for the helpful replies. I am currently very new to > both Python and programming (started looking into the whole business about 2 > weeks ago) and I know how awful my coding skills are at the moment. But, > thanks to lists like these, I hope I can improve my skills. I wi

Re: [Tutor] creating distribution lists in outlook

2010-05-13 Thread Alan Gauld
"Luke Paireepinart" 1000+ contacts in one contacts folder. When you create the distribution lists a number get cut off if you try to put too many into the list. But there is no indication of how many went into the list. I think Luke made a good point. This is usually done by businesses at