Re: Pass 'this' to a python script in an extended application

I figured it out. I just made my main class a singleton and it worked fine... it always works right after I post a message =) Stou Stou Sandalski wrote: > Hi, > > I have an application consisting of a main C++ class (and other > classes) stored inside a DLL. The application uses a small main >

Re: Units of measurement

Paul Rubin wrote: > >I'm sure this has been done before, but it just struck my fancy, an >example of Python's "emulating numeric types", inspired by the old >Unix "units" utility, and the Frink language. >... ># could include more units but you get the idea >... >c = 18

Re: Is it possible to fasten the import of cgi?

Cecil Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a cgi-script dat uses the modules cgi, os, sys and time. Offcourse I >can not time the time used to import time, but os and sys do not take more >as a millisecond. My script itself takes 3 or 4 milliseconds. But importing >cgi takes 95 millisecon

Re: How to read and write huge binary files

"Lad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What is a good way to read binary data from HUGE file and write it >to another file? How huge? I regularly process 100-megabyte MPEG files in Python, both by reading the whole thing in as a string, and by using "mmap" to map the file into memory. -- Tim Rob

Login Form

Hello python-list, I need to make a login form, if possible without cookies. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or are there any examples? Thanks. -- Best regards, Ghirai. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: PyODBC Stored proc calling

No one is using pyodbc ?? :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

error when import gtk.glade

hello when I import gtk.glade I got this error : Traceback (most recent call last): File "MainWindow.py", line 20, in ? import gtk.glade ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. I setup gtk and when I create my interface in my code my gtk window open correctly t

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Re: Is it possible to fasten the import of cgi?

On 1/18/07, Cecil Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a cgi-script dat uses the modules cgi, os, sys and time. Offcourse I > can not time the time used to import time, but os and sys do not take more > as a millisecond. My script itself takes 3 or 4 milliseconds. But importing > cgi takes

Re: Why this script can work?

Jm lists wrote: > Please help with this script: > > class ShortInputException(Exception): > '''A user-defined exception class.''' > def __init__(self,length,atleast): > Exception.__init__(self) > self.length=length > self.atleast=atl

Re: Match 2 words in a line of file

Rickard Lindberg wrote: > I see two potential problems with the non regex solutions. > > 1) Consider a line: "foo (bar)". When you split it you will only get > two strings, as split by default only splits the string on white space > characters. Thus "'bar' in words" will return false, even though

Re: Why this script can work?

Thanks for all the helps. I'm not habitual for this usage of 'else',other languages seem don't support this syntax. i.g,writting the codes below by Perl would get an error: # perl -le 'for $i (1..10){print $i} else{print "finished"}' syntax error at -e line 1, near "}else" Execution of -e aborte

Re: Match 2 words in a line of file

Rickard Lindberg wrote: > I see two potential problems with the non regex solutions. > > 1) Consider a line: "foo (bar)". When you split it you will only get > two strings, as split by default only splits the string on white space > characters. Thus "'bar' in words" will return false, even though

Re: How to find out if another process is using a file

js wrote: > How about using lock? > Let writing process locks the files before writing, and unlock after > the job's done. Is locking mandatory or co-operative? I don't have any control over the process which is doing the writing, so if it's co-operative it's no good to me. If it's mandatory, th

Re: Match 2 words in a line of file

Rickard Lindberg, yesterday I was sleepy and my solution was wrong. > 2) If you have a line something like this: "foobar hello" then "'foo' > in line" will return true, even though foo is not a word (it is part of > a word). Right. Now I think the best solution is to use __contains__ (in) to quic

Re: selective logger disable/enable

Gary Jefferson wrote: > Suppose I have 3 modules that belong to a project, 'A', 'A.a' and 'B', > and each module has its own logger, created with: > > module1logger = logging.getLogger('project.A') > > and > > module2logger = logging.getLogger('project.A.a') > > and > > module3logger = logging.get

Re: How to find out if another process is using a file

Tom Wright wrote: > js wrote: >> How about using lock? >> Let writing process locks the files before writing, and unlock after >> the job's done. > > Is locking mandatory or co-operative? I don't have any control over the > process which is doing the writing, so if it's co-operative it's no good

Re: Why this script can work?

Jm lists wrote: > Thanks for all the helps. > I'm not habitual for this usage of 'else',other languages seem don't > support this syntax. > i.g,writting the codes below by Perl would get an error: I personally consider this part of python also somewhat obscure. But I just don't use it and don't b

Re: Traversing the properties of a Class

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:03:41 +, Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2007-01-18, EdG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For debugging purposes, I would like to traverse the class >> listing out all the properties. > > This is the first thing that came to mind. > > def show_properties(cls): > for attr in di

Re: How to find out if another process is using a file

Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > A better solution is to name or place files which are begin written in a > which is recognizable and only rename or move them to their final location > when they have been completely written. > > For example, name files ".new" as they are being written. When they are

Re: Iterator length

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:55:39 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote: > What's your point? Maybe you mean that it consumes the given iterator? > I am aware of that, it's written in the function docstring too. But > sometimes you don't need the elements of a given iterator, you just > need to know how many ele

when format strings attack

http://www.ddj.com/184405774;jsessionid=BDDEMUGJOPXUMQSNDLQCKHSCJUNN2JVN I saw a warning from homeland security about this. I only comment on the because I am trying to use os.system('command1 arg') and it doesn't work but I do see examples with % that is borrowed from the c language. Seems like

Re: Determining when a file is an Open Office Document

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:22:04 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > tubby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Silly question, but here goes... what's a good way to determine when >> a file is an Open Office document? I could look at the file >> extension, but it seems there would be a better way. > > Yes, the

Standard streams

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Re: Standard streams

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, raghu wrote: > what is standard streams in case of python? Do you mean `sys.stdin`, `sys.stdout` ans `sys.stderr`? Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Why do I have to call del explicitly for com objects?

Hi, I'm creating objects in my python script belonging to a COM object which I dispatch using win32com.client.DispatchEx. Hence, dllhost.dll is the concerned process. The problem is that the objects destructor within the com object is not called if the object lives past a certain number of seconds

Re: Iterator length

Steven D'Aprano: > > s = "aaabaabb" > > from itertools import groupby > > print [(h,leniter(g)) for h,g in groupby(s)] > > s isn't an iterator. It's a sequence, a string, and an iterable, but not > an iterator. If you look better you can see that I use the leniter() on g, not on s. g is th

how to mimik a main() function to start a program with entry point?

hello all. I have one simple query and may be that's to stupid to answer but I am not finding the answer any ways. I have a set of modules in my package and out if which one is my actual starting point to my entire program. say for example I have an entire database application ready and I want a m

Re: variable scope

gonzlobo a écrit : Please keep this on clpy... > Sorry, but I don't understand. I *should* pass firstMsg to the > function like I did (PID_MinMax(firstMsg)), correct? Yes. > Then I should > pass the variable back to the main loop by 'return firstMsg', correct? s/variable/value/ Yes, you have

Re: How to find out if another process is using a file

> > Yes, that would work very neatly but I don't have any control over the > writing process. I think the modification time route might be the best > option, but thanks to all for their replies. Its not pythonic, but may be "lsof" on POSIX can be helpful: see: http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/Computi

Re: how to mimik a main() function to start a program with entry point?

krishnakant Mane wrote: > I have a set of modules in my package and out if which one is my > actual starting point to my entire program. say for example I have an > entire database application ready and I want a main (as in java or c) > to initiate the program and may be bring up a login screen

Re: how to mimik a main() function to start a program with entry point?

def main(): print "Hello" if __name__ == "__main__": main() Simply verify __name__ and run any function from there. This will cause main() to be run if the script is run directly. I haven't used py2exe, so I'm not sure if it still applies. --Kevin krishnakant Mane wrote: > hello all.

Re: how to mimik a main() function to start a program with entry point?

Hi, >From a python module you could use subprocess and start the exe. Normally one must leave it to the OS to load a binary module, because there are certain things done during loading. Nevertheless the location of the entry point is coded in the binary file format (e.g. PE for windows or ELF

Re: Login Form

Ghirai wrote: > Hello python-list, > > I need to make a login form, if possible without cookies. > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or are there any > examples? > > Thanks. > > -- > Best regards, > Ghirai. You'd do pretty good using the 'cgi' module, which is documented at http://www.py

PQueue and Python 2.5

Hello, Recently I was looking for a Priority Queue module, and I've found Pqueue by Andrew Snare [1]. When I use it with Python 2.4 everything works okay, at least on the two system I've tested it on (Debian based AMD 64) and OS PPC. However, when I use it with Python 2.5 - again on the same mach

Re: Would a Dutch speaker please check this wiki page please?

"Martin P. Hellwig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stef Mientki wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Got a note about a new page on the Python Wiki: > >> > >>> "Wade" == Wade McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Selcuk_Altun > >> > >> I suspect it's

Re: How can I create a linked list in Python?

"Jorgen Grahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, I oppose the idea (paraphrased from further up the thread) that linked > lists and other data structures are obsolete and dying concepts, obsoleted > by Python and other modern languages. > > 99% of the time. a Python list is the right tool for

Re: Wierd M2Crypto bug - phony "peer did not return certificate" error

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:54:42 GMT, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Heikki Toivonen wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> That's a problem for me. I need short timeouts; I'm accessing sites >>>that might or might not have SSL support, and I need to quickly time >>>out when there's no SSL

Re: Why this script can work?

"Jm lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not habitual for this usage of 'else',other languages seem don't > support this syntax. > i.g,writting the codes below by Perl would get an error: > > [[[censored example]]] If all languages had the same features,

Re: PyMeld for html templates?

Sean Schertell wrote: > > Of course I'm going to try them all but I wonder if anyone has any > thoughts on PyMeld as a template system for churning out general > websites? > meld3 evolved from pymeld. I use meld3 - http://plope.com/software/meld3/ this whole style of templating is known as push

Re: when format strings attack

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ddj.com/184405774;jsessionid=BDDEMUGJOPXUMQSNDLQCKHSCJUNN2JVN > > I saw a warning from homeland security about this. I only comment on > the because I am trying to use os.system('command1 arg') and it doesn't > work b

My first try using logger didn't work. Why?

Greetings! I want to write messages into the Windows event log. I found sevicemanager, but the source is always "Python Service", and I'd like to be a bit more descriptive. Poking around on the Internet revealed the existence of the logging module. It seems to have easily understood methods wit

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Re: Iterator length

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:04:01 -0800, bearophileHUGS wrote: > Steven D'Aprano: >> > s = "aaabaabb" >> > from itertools import groupby >> > print [(h,leniter(g)) for h,g in groupby(s)] >> >> s isn't an iterator. It's a sequence, a string, and an iterable, but not >> an iterator. > > If you l

Re: when format strings attack

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje |> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> |> > http://www.ddj.com/184405774;jsessionid=BDDEMUGJOPXUMQSNDLQCKHSCJUNN2JVN |> > |> > I saw a warning from homeland security about this. I

Re: My first try using logger didn't work. Why?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings! > > I want to write messages into the Windows event log. I found > sevicemanager, but the source is always "Python Service", and I'd like > to be a bit more descriptive. Poking around on the Internet revealed > the existence of the logging module. It seems

Re: Why do I have to call del explicitly for com objects?

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm creating objects in my python script belonging to a COM object > which I dispatch using win32com.client.DispatchEx. Hence, dllhost.dll > is the concerned process. The problem is that the objects destructor > within the com ob

Re: PQueue and Python 2.5

"Berteun Damman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Recently I was looking for a Priority Queue module, and I've found > Pqueue by Andrew Snare [1]. That appears to be rather ancient, from 1999. Is it a pure Python implementation or has some C code too? Python g

Re: when format strings attack

"Nick Maclaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |> > |> Pure Python programs are not affected, but a review of the C > implementation > |> should be made to see if any (variant of

Re: Match 2 words in a line of file

On 18 Jan 2007 18:54:59 -0800, "Rickard Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I see two potential problems with the non regex solutions. > >1) Consider a line: "foo (bar)". When you split it you will only get >two strings, as split by default only splits the string on white space >characters. Thus

Re: nsis and command-line argument

manouchk wrote: > Hi, > > is there a standart way to prepare a single exe with nsis that pass the > command line to an exe created by py2exe on windows? > > py2exe allows to prepare an exe that get the command-line but needs > some lib file so that it is not so elegant to ditribute. I tried a > si

Re: Is it possible to fasten the import of cgi?

BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > On 1/18/07, Cecil Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a cgi-script dat uses the modules cgi, os, sys and time. Offcourse >> I can not time the time used to import time, but os and sys do not take >> more as a millisecond. My script itself takes 3 or 4 millisecon

Re: Is it possible to fasten the import of cgi?

Tim Roberts wrote: > Cecil Westerhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I have a cgi-script dat uses the modules cgi, os, sys and time. Offcourse >>I can not time the time used to import time, but os and sys do not take >>more as a millisecond. My script itself takes 3 or 4 milliseconds. But >>import

Re: Is it possible to fasten the import of cgi?

Gabriel Genellina wrote: > I'll try to explain better: the cgi *protocol* (I'm not talking about the > cgi *module*) requires a *new* python process to be created on *each* > request. Try to measure the time it takes to launch Python, that is, the > time from when you type `python ENTER` on your s

confused on python rpc with apache, is it possible?

hello all. I will like to know if the following combination is possible. I have looked around on google and did not find any thing productive so bothering the list: sorry. I am developing a distributed application which will have 3 layers namely the thin client written in wxpython, an application l

Re: Why do I have to call del explicitly for com objects?

Gabriel Genellina skrev: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió en el mensaje > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I'm creating objects in my python script belonging to a COM object > > which I dispatch using win32com.client.DispatchEx. Hence, dllhost.dll > > is the concerned process. The problem is that the o

Re: Asyncore select statement problem

Thank you for the responses. I have learned considerably more about how Asyncore works because of it. The problem that I see is that Asyncore's poll function does not seem to be thread safe. From what I can tell, I am calling dispatcher.close() properly and the dispatchers are removed from async

Re: confused on python rpc with apache, is it possible?

krishnakant Mane wrote: > hello all. > I will like to know if the following combination is possible. > I have looked around on google and did not find any thing productive > so bothering the list: sorry. > I am developing a distributed application which will have 3 layers > namely the thin client

Re: More M2Crypto issues

Gabriel Genellina wrote: > At Thursday 18/1/2007 04:41, John Nagle wrote: > On a previous version of M2Crypto that line said: map()[self.ctx] = > self, and that failed too ("unhashable object", I think). > I changed the class _ctxmap (the map() above returns an instance of it) > to use str(key)

monitor the start and end of applications

Hello, My purpose is to supervise (from a python program) the launch of some other programs (python or non python programs) as : "I click on the button X and the pg X is launched ..." I want also that my supervision be "wake up" when a pg has exited to check its status or something like that. I sup

Re: when format strings attack

Perhaps it is not as severe a security risk, but pure Python programs can run into similar problems if they don't check user input for % codes. Example: >>> k = raw_input("Try to trick me: ") Try to trick me: How about %s this? >>> j = "User %s just entered: " + k >>> print j % "John" Traceback (

Re: My first try using logger didn't work. Why?

Beautiful! Thank you very much! One of the problems I was laboring under was that I did not know where to go to find the official documentation. Thanks for that link too! Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: when format strings attack

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:51:08 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.ddj.com/184405774;jsessionid=BDDEMUGJOPXUMQSNDLQCKHSCJUNN2JVN > > I saw a warning from homeland security about this. I only comment on > the because I am trying to use os.system('command1 arg') and it doesn't > work What

Re: My first try using logger didn't work. Why?

Vinay (or anybody else), Well, now that logging is working, how do I stop it from working? I'm developing in PythonWin. When I run my test script, I get one message. When I run it a second time, I get two, a third time gets me three, and so on. I feel like the Sorceror's Apprentice! Rob --

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Re: More M2Crypto issues

John Nagle wrote: > I've been running M2Crypto successfully using Python 2.4 on Windows 2000, > and now I'm trying to get it to work on Python 2.3.4 on Linux. > > Attempting to initialize a context results in > > Traceback (most recent call last): [...] > map()[long(self.ctx)] = self > Va

Re: My first try using logger didn't work. Why?

At Friday 19/1/2007 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the problems I was laboring under was that I did not know where to go to find the official documentation. Thanks for that link too! You already have it installed; look into your python install directory, under "doc" From inside the

Re: More M2Crypto issues

John Nagle wrote: > Actually, at the moment I'm having an M2Crypto problem related > to a SWIG/OpenSSL conflict. Older versions of OpenSSL have an > include file that needs __i386__ defined, which is something GCC > does based on what platform you're on. SWIG uses CPP, but > doesn't set the p

Re: when format strings attack

At Friday 19/1/2007 15:43, John Zenger wrote: Perhaps it is not as severe a security risk, but pure Python programs can run into similar problems if they don't check user input for % codes. Example: >>> k = raw_input("Try to trick me: ") Try to trick me: How about %s this? >>> j = "User %s jus

Re: when format strings attack

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:43:53 -0800, John Zenger wrote: > Perhaps it is not as severe a security risk, but pure Python programs > can run into similar problems if they don't check user input for % > codes. Please don't top-post. A: Because it messes up the order that we read things. Q: Why? A: To

Re: Asyncore select statement problem

At Friday 19/1/2007 14:42, JamesHoward wrote: Thank you for the responses. I have learned considerably more about how Asyncore works because of it. The problem that I see is that Asyncore's poll function does not seem to be thread safe. From what I can tell, I am calling dispatcher.close() pr

Re: when format strings attack

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > os.system('dir -l %s' % 'text.txt') > > > Now, there is a security risk: you might set command1 yourself, and > allow the user to set args. If command1 is an external application > with a security hole, and the user provides arguments that trigger that > bug, then natur

Re: spidering script

4 easy steps to get the links: 1. Download BeautifulSoup and import it in your script file. 2. Use urllib2 to download the html of the url. 3. mash the html using BeautifulSoup 4. [code] for tag in BeautifulSoupisedHTML.findAll('a'): print tag [/code] David Waizer a écrit : > Hello.. > >

Re: Iterator length

Steven D'Aprano: > since g is not an arbitrary iterator, one can easily do this: > print [(h,len(list(g))) for h,g in groupby(s)] > No need for a special function. If you look at my first post you can see that I have shown that solution too, but it creates a list that may be long, that may use a l

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Coz we have fools in the govt, the downfall of the US has only been accelerated !! The are morons who staged 9/11 controlled demolition to kill americans to start their idiotic war. Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:12:20 -0500 Subject: [nsmworld] war with china? a different approach? From: "J. Knowles" <

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Re: Determining when a file is an Open Office Document

tubby wrote: > Now, If only I could something like that on PDF files :) PDF files should begin with "%PDF-" followed by a version number, eg. "%PDF-1.4". The PDF Reference notes that Adobe Acrobat Reader is a bit more flexiable about what it will accept: 13. Acrobat viewers require only that

OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

Greetings: Personally, I don't think top-posting is the most annoying newsgroup habit. I think it's making a big fuss about minor inconveniences. One of the nicest things about being human is the amazing flexibility of our brains. For example, if a block of text isn't arranged in the order we

Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carroll, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Personally, I don't think top-posting is the most annoying newsgroup >habit. I think it's making a big fuss about minor inconveniences. =20 Thing is, nobody will ignore your posts for following standard Usenet convention

Re: PyMeld for html templates?

[Sean] > I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on PyMeld as a template > system for churning out general websites? I'm doing that (but then I would be wouldn't I? 8-) http://www.mandant.net is an example - the content of each page comes from a file containing just the content, the layout and sidebar

How to comment code?

Hi all, I've been toying with python for about two years now. Not every day, just when I encounter something in my job (sysadmin) repetitively dull. The amazing thing is that like any other language (natural or not) learning it more gives you power to express your thoughts better and create som

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Re: My first try using logger didn't work. Why?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Vinay (or anybody else), > > Well, now that logging is working, how do I stop it from working? > > I'm developing in PythonWin. When I run my test script, I get one > message. When I run it a second time, I get two, a third time gets me > three, and so on. > > I feel l

RE: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

Hello again. First off, Aahz is absolutely right. It is my choice, just as it is his choice what to read and what to ignore. My reply was about the fuss, not the choice. Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I

Re: How to comment code?

Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been toying with python for about two years now. Not every day, > just when I encounter something in my job (sysadmin) repetitively dull. > The amazing thing is that like any other language (natural or not) > learning it more gives you power to express

RE: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Carroll, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that |> mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like |> to see it. You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG ab

Re: Determining when a file is an Open Office Document

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:22:04 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > >> tubby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Silly question, but here goes... what's a good way to determine >>> when a file is an Open Office document? I could look at the file >>> extension, bu

Re: How to comment code?

I think that doc strings are the most important way in which you should be commenting on your code. Once the code works, you can elimainate most inline comments, leaving only doc string for everything and a few comments on some particularly confusing parts. Other than that, comments usually only cl

Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

On 1/19/07, Carroll, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that > mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like > to see it. For what (very little) it's worth, see RFC 1855. -- Jerry -- http://mail.python.or

Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carroll, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that >mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like >to see it. You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence. >When

Help with creating processes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to create a simple gui wrapper for the handbrake dvd ripper with python 2.4 on a FreeBSD system. My problem is this. I want to scan the dvd to see all the titles and chapters. The handbrake command for this is: handbrake -i /dev/ac

Re: Asyncore select statement problem

Again, thank you for your help. With digging through the Asyncore.py source, I was able to find the poll2 function which is called when the function asyncore.loop(use_poll = True) is enabled. This function does not use a select call, but a poll call to do its looping. It works well for the probl

float comparison confusion

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> cmp(20.10, 20.9) -1 Why is cmp returning -1 instead of returning positive integer? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: float comparison confusion

chrolson> Why is cmp returning -1 instead of returning positive integer? Last time I checked 20.1 was less than 20.9. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT Annoying Habits

"Carroll, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that > mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like You can read RFC 1855. Section 3.1.3 talks about newsgroups. Section 3.1.1 has general guidelines and

Re: How to comment code?

If it's hard to write, it should be hard to read! :) On 1/19/07, Martin P. Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, (snip) > However since I'm learning more of python I've struggled with > commenting, how should I've comment my code (snip) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-li

RE: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

At Friday 19/1/2007 18:43, Carroll, Barry wrote: Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like to see it. There are some guidelines, like RFC 1855 (not a real standard, or enforced in any way): ht

Re: More M2Crypto issues

Heikki Toivonen wrote: > John Nagle wrote: > >>Actually, at the moment I'm having an M2Crypto problem related >>to a SWIG/OpenSSL conflict. Older versions of OpenSSL have an >>include file that needs __i386__ defined, which is something GCC >>does based on what platform you're on. SWIG uses

RE: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

> -Original Message- > From: Aahz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack) > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Carroll, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Secon

nice one

Take a break and try this cool game, this test is apporved by Peugeot for car parking http://www.pixelswall.com/Download/peugeot/peugeot.html Anton www.pixelswall.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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