No shortcut Icon on Desktop
Dear Sir, I have successfully downloaded Python into my laptop but the shortcut icon is not appearing on the desktop. I am using Windows 10 with the PC specifications as per snap shot attached below. Can you advise what to do? Thank you Tim Deke [image: image.png] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Suggestion for Linux Distro (from PSA: Linux vulnerability)
On 2022-04-12 21:03:00 +0200, Marco Sulla wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 00:10, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > They are are about a year apart, so they will usually contain different > > versions of most packages right from the start. So the Ubuntu and Debian > > security teams probably can't benefit much from each other. > > Well, this is what my updater on Lubuntu says to me today: > > Changes for tcpdump versions: > Installed version: 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 > Available version: 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 > > Version 4.9.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2: > > * SECURITY UPDATE: buffer overflow in read_infile > - debian/patches/CVE-2018-16301.patch: Add check of > file size before allocating and reading content in > tcpdump.c and netdissect-stdinc.h. > - CVE-2018-16301 > * SECURITY UPDATE: resource exhaustion with big packets > - debian/patches/CVE-2020-8037.patch: Add a limit to the > amount of space that can be allocated when reading the > packet. > - CVE-2020-8037 > > I use an LTS version. So it seems that Ubuntu benefits from Debian > security patches. Why do you think so? Because the release notes mention debian/patches/*.patch? This may be an artefact of the build process. The build tools for .deb packages expect all kinds of meta-data to live in a subdirectory called "debian", even on non-debian systems. This includes patches, at least if the maintainer is using quilt (which AFAIK is currently the recommended tool for that purpose). OTOH tcpdump would be one of the those packages where Ubuntu could use a Debian patch directly: 4.9.3 has been the latest version for quite some time (I have it in Debian 9, Ubuntu 18, Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20, but not in Debian 11 (4.99.0)), so if any of those is patched, the others can (almost certainly) use the patch with little or no changes). I think this is rare, though: Packages with frequent security patches tend to have frequent feature updates, too. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer| Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) || | | | [email protected] |-- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!" signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: No shortcut Icon on Desktop
On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:38:11 +1000, Tim Deke declaimed
the following:
>Dear Sir,
>
>I have successfully downloaded Python into my laptop but the shortcut icon
>is not appearing on the desktop. I am using Windows 10 with the PC
>specifications as per snap shot attached below. Can you advise what to do?
>
>Thank you
>
>Tim Deke
>
>[image: image.png]
Text only group -- if you need to reference a binary file you will have
to post it on some hosting service and include a link (URL) to that file.
CAVEAT: many of us will not click on random/ad-hoc links -- if the link
does not explicitly end in a recognized file name it will be considered
dangerous [as it could transfer anything, including mal-ware]; at least
with a "safe" file name, it may be considered for examination)
As for the main question?
WHAT did you download -- where from, what name, etc. ...and where on
your computer did you download it?
Python normally does not create "shortcut icon"s -- one downloads an
installer (which on my system would be saved in %userprofile%\downloads),
and executes the installer (once). Python is not an all-in-one GUI
development environment (ie; it is not something like Lazarus/FreePascal,
Visual Studio, etc.). It is an interpreter for script files and depending
upon how the installer sets up the environment, one may never need to
directly invoke the Python interpreter -- one just invokes .py script files
and the OS activates the correct interpreter.
C:\Users\Wulfraed>rem direct invocation; python.exe is found in %PATH%
C:\Users\Wulfraed>python
Python ActivePython 3.8.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
C:\Users\Wulfraed>rem "py launcher" (which I don't trust as it has been
known to pick a different Python at times
C:\Users\Wulfraed>py
Python ActivePython 3.8.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
C:\Users\Wulfraed>
C:\Users\Wulfraed>type junk.py
print("Let me out of here!")
C:\Users\Wulfraed>rem invocation of python providing a script file
C:\Users\Wulfraed>python junk.py
Let me out of here!
C:\Users\Wulfraed>rem direct invocation of script file, .py linked to
Python by OS
C:\Users\Wulfraed>junk.py
Let me out of here!
C:\Users\Wulfraed>rem direct invocation -- with .py defined as an
"executable" extension on my system
C:\Users\Wulfraed>junk
Let me out of here!
C:\Users\Wulfraed>
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
[email protected]://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/
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Re: No shortcut Icon on Desktop
On 14/04/2022 05.38, Tim Deke wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have successfully downloaded Python into my laptop but the shortcut icon > is not appearing on the desktop. I am using Windows 10 with the PC > specifications as per snap shot attached below. Can you advise what to do? https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html -- Regards, =dn -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: No shortcut Icon on Desktop
> On 13 Apr 2022, at 19:46, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > C:\Users\Wulfraed>rem "py launcher" (which I don't trust as it has been > known to pick a different Python at times > C:\Users\Wulfraed>py > Python ActivePython 3.8.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on > on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Py.exe is deterministic. You can edit an .ini file to configure it if the defaults do not work for you. Use py -0 to see what python’s it can find. Barry -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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MS Edge settings are displayed in the first picture, the error I encountered is the second picture...not sure how I get around this!I reloaded the browser after checking the settings for JavaScript...confused. Kevin Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory tooverlook an offense. Proverbs 19:11 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 11:00, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote: > > > > > > MS Edge settings are displayed in the first picture, the error I encountered > is the second picture...not sure how I get around this!I reloaded the browser > after checking the settings for JavaScript...confused. > > Kevin > No attachments here. What's the actual issue? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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On 2022-04-14 02:07, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 11:00, Kevin M. Wilson via Python-list wrote: MS Edge settings are displayed in the first picture, the error I encountered is the second picture...not sure how I get around this!I reloaded the browser after checking the settings for JavaScript...confused. Kevin No attachments here. What's the actual issue? I've tried it myself: 1. Go to https://docs.python.org/3/ 2. Type something into the Quick search box 3. Click Go I think the problem is that the panel on the left is empty, and it's not obvious how to navigate out of the search results page. (The answer is to click on the "Documentation" part of "Documentation » Search".) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
