Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-17 Thread Johan Geldenhuys
What is this line supposedto do? cmd.run('www.python.org') Christopher Arndt wrote: Alan Gauld schrieb: Thanks, I may use that as one of the example programs if you don't mind? I took the liberty of refactoring Johan's example a bit, to make it more reusable. See

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-17 Thread Christopher Arndt
Johan Geldenhuys wrote: What is this line supposedto do? cmd.run('www.python.org') Run the command that was defined at object creation ('ping -c 10') with the argument 'www.python.org'. Chris ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-17 Thread Johan Geldenhuys
This script was not intended to be used from the command line, but to be called from elsewhere. It was only a test piece of code. If you use the ping command with the args that you are calling it with, there is no need to kill the process, it will terminate after 10 requests. 8-) Johan

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-17 Thread Christopher Arndt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johan Geldenhuys schrieb: This script was not intended to be used from the command line, but to be called from elsewhere. It was only a test piece of code. If you use the ping command with the args that you are calling it with, there is no need

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-16 Thread Johan Geldenhuys
Alan, You may remember that I asked questions on killing a process, a while back, Sice this is relatedto the tutorial that yu are writing, this was the best solution that worked for me to killa process for a command that keeps on running like eg. 'tcpdump'. HTH Johan BTW, There will a be

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-16 Thread Alan Gauld
Thanks, I may use that as one of the example programs if you don't mind? Alan G. - Original Message - From: Johan Geldenhuys [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Gauld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Python Tutor list tutor@python.org Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] new

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-16 Thread Christopher Arndt
Alan Gauld schrieb: Thanks, I may use that as one of the example programs if you don't mind? I took the liberty of refactoring Johan's example a bit, to make it more reusable. See attached file. Chris Wrapper object for external commands, that allows to kill them after later.. ::Author:

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-15 Thread Christopher Arndt
Alan Gauld schrieb: I've just added an incomplete draft copy of my latest tutorial topic on using the Operating System from Python. The material that's there discusses the role of the OS and looks at file handling usng os/os.path/shutil etc.

[Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-14 Thread Alan Gauld
I've just added an incomplete draft copy of my latest tutorial topic on using the Operating System from Python. The material that's there discusses the role of the OS and looks at file handling usng os/os.path/shutil etc. http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutos.htm If anyone would

Re: [Tutor] new topic draft

2005-11-14 Thread Nick Lunt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Gauld I've just added an incomplete draft copy of my latest tutorial topic on using the Operating System from Python. The material that's there discusses the role of the OS and looks at file