Re: [Tutor] Deleting recursive folder definition

2009-01-12 Thread Lawrence Wickline
did you try "rd /s /q" from the root directory command prompt? -L On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: I've managed to do something incredibly stupid on my XP box. I've created a folder that is a link to itself - at least I think that's what has happened, it was a CASE tool that I

Re: [Tutor] Sorting a dictionary on a value in a list.

2008-12-08 Thread Lawrence Wickline
On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Lie Ryan wrote: In most cases, in processing involving networking, the bottleneck is the network speed itself. To speed things up by optimizing your own code might not make your download significantly faster (getting 60 seconds faster is great for scripts that us

Re: [Tutor] Sorting a dictionary on a value in a list.

2008-12-04 Thread Lawrence Wickline
main function and adding: if __name__ == "__main__": main() On Dec 3, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Kent Johnson wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Lawrence Wickline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: how would I sort on bytes sent? You can't actually sort a dictionary; what you ca

[Tutor] Sorting a dictionary on a value in a list.

2008-12-03 Thread Lawrence Wickline
I am working on a reducer that needs to produce a sorted output of files sorted on their overall bandwidth use. I create a dictionary with the file name as the key (it is always unique) and in the values I am populating a list with the two values of bytes and bytes sent. Each entry looks like {fi