[Tutor] smtp project
I am writing a script that will send an email message. This will run in a windows XP box. The box does not have a smtp server, so the script must crete not merely a smtp client to talk to a MTA, it must BE one for the duration of sending the message- then shut off, we don't need no bloody op0en relays here! I am RTFM and having some heavy sledding, can I get an Elmer on this? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] length of a string? Advice saught
I wrote a program to let me edit web-pages without bothering with ftp; it loads up a simple form with the page guts in it, and saves it through another script. Until yesterday, EditMyPage worked fine. Alas, I had a rather long winded page and it truncated it- completely omitted the last 1/4 of the original file, creating big problems. Looking everything over, I can only conclude that somehow python 2.23 (ok, it's an old server; shoot me, I'm poor) has a limit on a simple string variable. Can I declare the variable as a long winded version and save the trouble, or do AI need a witchdoctor here? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] sqrt?
ok gang, My desktop runs 2.5, and for my college algebra I needed to do som quadratic equation work. This involves squareroots. So I fired uop the interactive idle and imported math. I then tried to play with sqrt. Nothing. Importing math does not import a sqrt function. Now riddle me this: if string.foo makes it do a function FOO on a string, whyfore and howcome does math.sqrt not do square roots on a simple number like 4??? I am now officiciously pissed. Help? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] An interesting situation befalls me
An instructor of mine is about to teach the FIRST EVER class in Python at Saint Petersburg College; knowing I am a snakecharmer, he asked me for referrals to online resources. Oh my. So I sent back this: " Ah, python., my fav obsession. First, the language website itself: http://www.python.org/ Natch, they offer a tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ But this one is better for rank beginniners: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers And there's another one here: http://www.sthurlow.com/python/ And a nice writeup on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 You may care to go teleport to planet python: http://planet.python.org/ And you can swim into it at diveintopython: http://diveintopython.org/toc/index.html " Now here is a chance to help influence this getting off on the right foot. I can use reccomendations for texts for use in an introduction to Python class, and I will condense it down and provide them to the good doctor. -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] An interesting situation befalls me revisited
Well, this has been a fruitful thread! Now here's the next exciting installment; what's a good TEXTBOOK for a class to use on the subject? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Hat lands in ring
I'm Baaacck... -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] It lives...
I'm back. Melted my life, got a divorce, gutted the house, acquired true love, 2 cats, redid house, new job, and dentures. Let's see, I still need a total blood change-out, but other than that, I did it all. Now I can start paying attention to python and wiki's again. And this is good, because the new edition of python does not like my windows wiki very well. Seems when it reads the page in, it creates the data in a list- with everything in one cell, not one line per cell. Hmmm it did not used to do this... bitrot? -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] miniwiki 1.3 BETA bugs
ok, let's post this again. last time went into purgatory instead of the list. hmmm I am working on updating miniwiki. the current beta code has rendering problems with wikiwords and external sites under some circumstances. Here is a link to the latest code: http://www.tinylist.org/MW.txt Blessed Be! - Kirk Bailey Largo FL USA kniht +-+ http://www.mylemonadestand.biz/ - play the lemonade game! | BOX | http://www.tinylist-org/ Freedom software +-+ In HER Service- http://www.pinellasintergroupsociety.org/ think http://www.seaxtradusa.org/ - The Seax Wica Trad in the USA! ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] miniwiki 1.3 BETA bugs
RE leaves me totally confuzzzeddded. Yep, so confuised I'm having trouble spelling it. Sp this one line will replace both words and give a reliable result? Barnaby Scott wrote: [snip] > No idea if it has anything to do with your problem, but it struck me > that the iswikiword() function (and processword() which seems to be a > helper for it) could be replaced with one line, and it would be reliable! > > def iswikiword(word): > return bool(re.match('^([A-Z][a-z]+){2,}$', word)) > > Of course you need to import re, but that seems a small price to pay! > > HTH > > Barnaby Scott > > -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] arrays in python
Just wondering, if I can find a way to do a 2 dimensional array in python. 1 dimension would be a list it would seem; for 2, I could use a list of lists? Strange how I can't think of ever needing one since I discovered snake charming, but so many languages do foo dimensional arrays, it would seem like there ought to be a way to do it in python. -- end Very Truly yours, - Kirk Bailey, Largo Florida kniht +-+ | BOX | +-+ think ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor