[Tutor] nul file in Windows

2009-11-15 Thread Timo List
For my program I disable the py2exe log feature by routing output to the nul-file. Code: if win32 and py2exe: sys.stdout = open("nul", "w") sys.stderr = open("nul", "w") This always worked fine. Today, I received an email from a user with the following error: IOEr

[Tutor] Generating unique ID

2009-10-28 Thread Timo List
Hello, I'm writing an application which will hold a database of people. Ofcourse, people can have the same name, so I want to stock them with an unique ID. I've searched and found some things: - uuid.uuid4() - id(name) - os.urandom(n) But they seem overkill to me. Well, maybe not id(). What sho

[Tutor] Python and SQL recommendation

2009-06-19 Thread Timo List
Hello all, At the moment I'm using 3 files as datastorage for my program. One file using ConfigParser and two use the Pickle module. File one contains for example: [ID] option1 = string1 option2 = string2 option3 = string3 And is connected to one of the Pickle files which is like this: {ID : [{k