Re: [Tutor] Question on a select statement with ODBC

2014-10-23 Thread Al Bull
-Original Message- From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+a.bull=pubdmgroup@python.org] On Behalf Of Alan Gauld Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:13 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Question on a select statement with ODBC On 22/10/14 16:06, Al Bull wrote: I don't think I

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Steven D'Aprano !Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:03 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part ! !On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:54:49PM -0700,

Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL

2014-10-23 Thread Wilson, Pete
It's working! I don't understand the line rx_buf = (c_uint8 * rx_buf_size).from_buffer_copy(string_buf) or where .from_buffer_copy() came from but it works... I promise I will not knowingly pass Python strings to C. Thanks. -Original Message- From: eryksun [mailto:eryk...@gmail.com]

Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL

2014-10-23 Thread Wilson, Pete
No worries, if I could spell I would have been a Lawyer. Pete -Original Message- From: eryksun [mailto:eryk...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:36 PM To: Wilson, Pete Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Passing Data to .DLL On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:05 PM,

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Dave Angel
Clayton Kirkwood c...@godblessthe.us Wrote in message: (Somehow, your email program seems to be using the exclamation point to identify quoted lines, instead of the standard greater-than symbol. Is that something you can correct, prrhaps using settings?) !-Original Message-

Re: [Tutor] Question on a select statement with ODBC

2014-10-23 Thread Peter Otten
Al Bull wrote: Quick question then... Does this do the trick? I may have misunderstood your original question; do you want to delete records from the database or from the Python list? Your code below will do the latter, once you have fixed the bugs. Currentrecord = 1 While

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Alan Gauld
On 22/10/14 19:48, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: Regarding the index out of range, I know what it meant, I was just kind of surprised that Python didn't automatically create the node and stuff a value in. But what should Python do in this case aNewList[100] = 42 Should Python create a 1

Re: [Tutor] yet another misunderstanding on my part

2014-10-23 Thread Dave Angel
Dave Angel da...@davea.name Wrote in message: Clayton Kirkwood c...@godblessthe.us Wrote in message: Second question, why can't a numeric index be used to make assignment to a specific location like a[1] = some value? If the mechanism is to use a.index(1,some value), The index()

[Tutor] Is there a convenient table of Python 3.4 exceptions?

2014-10-23 Thread boB Stepp
I am reading a brief intro to exception handling in Mark Summerfield's Programming in Python 3, 2nd ed. He gives the basic syntax as: try: try_suite except exception1 as variable1: exception_suite1 ... except exceptionN as variableN: exception_suiteN My current understanding is that

Re: [Tutor] Is there a convenient table of Python 3.4 exceptions?

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
boB Stepp robertvst...@gmail.com writes: My current understanding is that exception1, ... , exceptionN should match one of Python's exception classes or subclasses in order to perform a match and execute the corresponding exception suite. Correct. Bear in mind that “… or subclasses” covers

Re: [Tutor] Is there a convenient table of Python 3.4 exceptions?

2014-10-23 Thread Danny Yoo
I have so far been unable to find a list of these class/subclass names. Of course I can force an error to occur in the interpreter and see what comes up for each type of error I wish to catch. Is there such a table or list? Hi Bob, You can find the ones used in the Standard Library here:

Re: [Tutor] Is there a convenient table of Python 3.4 exceptions?

2014-10-23 Thread Ben Finney
(Danny, please preserve attribution lines for the quoted text.) Danny Yoo d...@hashcollision.org writes: Of course I can force an error to occur in the interpreter and see what comes up for each type of error I wish to catch. Is there such a table or list? […] Usually the documentation