Re: The Modernization of Emacs

On 17 июн, 19:13, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the following, i describe some critical changes that are also very > easy to fix in emacs. If emacs officially adopt these changes, i think > it will make a lot people, at least programers, like emacs and choose > emacs as their text editor.

Re: Trivial string substitution/parser

Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Samuel wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:00:58 +, Duncan Booth wrote: >> >>> The elegant and lazy way would be to change your specification so >>> that $ characters are escaped by $$ not by backslashes. Then you can >>> write: >>> >> from string

Re: global destructor not called?

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> def __del__ (self): >> >> try: >> >> os.remove (self.name + '.old') >> >> except: >> >> pass >> >> >> And setting: >> >> sys.stderr = logger(...) >> >> >> It seems my cleanup (__del__) is never called,

Re: Windows XMLRPC Service

En Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:25:25 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm trying to serve up a simple XMLRPC server as a windows service. I > got it to run properly, I'm just not sure how to stop it properly. > Most of the documentation/examples I found for this was from forums, > so I'd love some

Re: Matrix Multiplication

sturlamolden wrote: > Use numpy: www.scipy.org > > NumPy has a matrix type that overloads the * operator. Just a tiny followup, which may be important unless you carefully read the documentation. The "*" operator doesn't do matrix multiplication for normal numpy arrays - you do need to use its s

Re: PyRun_String with Py_single_input to stdout?

En Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:45:38 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I'm using PyRun_String with Py_single_input for a python interpreter > embedded in my application. I'm using Py_single_input. Py_single input > is what I want, but it seems to output to stdout. Before when I wa

Using a web service [newbie]

I am working with Python 2.5 and would like to use of a web service. What shall I install on my setup (or import in my Python script)? I read about Zolera Soap Infrastructure, which seems to be the preferred Python web service framework (http:// pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/). However, its document

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

> > > * Reduce the use of the word "buffer" in the emacs documentation. > > Call it "opened file" or "unsaved document". > > As far as I understand the concept of buffer is much much wider than > of "unsaved document" or "file". Should we call dired buffer as > "unsaved document"? > It is much

Re: using Mac OS X CoreGraphics via ctypes

Daniel wrote: >> > # the next line causes a segfault - what's the right way to do this? >> > #GCS_RGB = cglib.kCGColorSpaceGenericRGB() >> >> Usually, things in the OSX lib that start with k* are a constant - not a >> function. As is this. >> >> Diez > > That's what I thought too. But when I try

Re: xmlrpclib hangs execution

I think a better fix than the one I posted below is using the HTTPConnection library, as opposed to the HTTP library from httplib. A patch can be found below: --- /sw/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py 2006-11-29 02:46:38.0 +0100 +++ xmlrpclib.py2007-06-15 16:03:17.0 +0200 @@

Re: Do U have anything to share with this students

"Josh Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:06:23 -, Milt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Jun 15, 1:00?pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> This is a network of students. Find the people of your kind there >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/33uvla

Re: a_list.count(a_callable) ?

On 2007-06-15, Ping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> sum(1 for i in a_list if a_callable(i)) >> >> -- >> Carsten Haesehttp://informixdb.sourceforge.net > > This works nicely but not very intuitive or readable to me. > > First of all, the generator expression makes sense only to > trained eyes. Sec

Re: Using a web service [newbie]

On Jun 18, 7:55 pm, Alchemist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working with Python 2.5 and would like to use of a web service. > > What shall I install on my setup (or import in my Python script)? > > I read about Zolera Soap Infrastructure, which seems to be the > preferred Python web service fra

XMLRPC and SSL

I have a web service that I built and it requires using SSL. I have found a few examples of clients using SSL but none that allow me to change the client's certificate or the chain of certificates the client will use to authenticate the server. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good example

fetching text from the screen

Hello list, I'm thinking about a python script which fetch some text from the screen independent of what application provides the text on the screen. In this regard it should be similar to the babylon software: www.babylon.com Here my thoughts: 1) getting the mouse position 2) calculate a ade

Re: labeled break/continue

On Jun 18, 12:35 am, Matt Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I was wondering if there had ever been an official decision on > the idea of adding labeled break and continue functionality to Python. > > I've found a few places where the idea has come up, in the context of > named code blocks:

Re: Matrix Multiplication

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any direct function for matrix multiplication in Python or > any of its packages? or do we have to multiply element by element? If you want a pure Python module for 4x4 matrices, then you may want to look at Game Objects http://code.google.com/p/gameo

Re: using Mac OS X CoreGraphics via ctypes

On Jun 18, 6:07 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel wrote: > >> > # the next line causes a segfault - what's the right way to do this? > >> > #GCS_RGB = cglib.kCGColorSpaceGenericRGB() > > >> Usually, things in the OSX lib that start with k* are a constant - not a > >> functi

Re: smtp server simulation using Python

On 17/06/07, William Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a (web) development computer w/o an SMTP server and want to test > form generated e-mail using a dummy SMTP server that delivers the mail > message to a file, or better yet, to a text editor instead of actually > sending it. Is it possi

Having lots of fun passing parameters ... help!

I've defined a single method in Python using: def funcAdjacents(inputWord, outputFile): ... lots of boring stuff ... and then called it using: funcAdjacents("SampleWord","outputFile.file") Which works OK in Python - I get the results I want. But what I'm trying to do is get inputWord

Re: Having lots of fun passing parameters ... help!

DAC wrote: > I've defined a single method in Python using: > > def funcAdjacents(inputWord, outputFile): >... >lots of boring stuff >... > > > and then called it using: > > funcAdjacents("SampleWord","outputFile.file") > > Which works OK in Python - I get the results I want. But

Binary code

Can python maky a binary code for exemple .hex for microcontrolor. tks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, I'm writing this to have your opinion on what tools I should use > to do this and what technique I should use. Take a look at parsing example on this page: http://wiki.python.org/moin/SimplePrograms -- HTH, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-l

Re: Having lots of fun passing parameters ... help!

On 18 Jun, 14:57, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DAC wrote: > > I've defined a single method in Python using: > > > def funcAdjacents(inputWord, outputFile): > >... > >lots of boring stuff > >... > > > and then called it using: > > > funcAdjacents("SampleWord","outputFi

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Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work at this company and we are re-building our website: http://caslt.org/. > The new website will be built by an external firm (I could do it > myself, but since I'm just the summer student worker...). Anyways, to > help them, they first asked me to copy all the text f

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SIMPLE CHANGES > > In the following, i describe some critical changes that are also very > easy to fix in emacs. If emacs officially adopt these changes, i think > it will make a lot people, at least programers, like

Re: Binary code

On 2007-06-18, getgroup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can python maky a binary code for exemple .hex for microcontrolor. Are you asking if a Python program can be compiled into a binary executable which is to run on a microcontroller? The answer to that is no. Are you asking if a Python program c

copy locked files

Hello, do you know of any way to copy locked / opened files under win xp? I know there is something like "Volume Shadow Copy" but I don't know how to use it. Maybe someone already has a python solution? Many thanks Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

Alex Martelli wrote: > PL/1 is basically gone, but its legacy of "take what you need and leave > the rest" is unfortunately alive in other languages that are blind to > the enormous advantages of simplicity and uniformity. Reminds me of RUP... No wonder Ivar Jacobson gave up and started all over.

Re: sqlite3 bug??

On Jun 17, 9:16 am, mark carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I also explicitly close the cursor and connection, or is that > taken care of "automagically"? > Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the Cursor and Connection objects properly clean themselves up when deallo

Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

Hi, I work at this company and we are re-building our website: http://caslt.org/. The new website will be built by an external firm (I could do it myself, but since I'm just the summer student worker...). Anyways, to help them, they first asked me to copy all the text from all the pages of the sit

Re: sqlite3 bug??

On Jun 18, 11:01 am, Hyuga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, I have code in which references to a > db connection are passed around, so I have to be careful about > explicitly closing the connection, lest it be in use by some other > method somewhere. > Hate to reply to myself, but I should cl

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

On 2007-06-18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work at this company and we are re-building our website: http://caslt.org/. > The new website will be built by an external firm (I could do it > myself, but since I'm just the summer student worker...). Anyways, to > help them, they fi

Re: Do U have anything to share with this students

Josh Hill wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:06:23 -, Milt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Jun 15, 1:00?pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> This is a network of students. Find the people of your kind there >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/33uvla >>> >>> Click and register to access millions of studen

Re: smtp server simulation using Python

> I have a (web) development computer w/o an SMTP server and want to test > form generated e-mail using a dummy SMTP server that delivers the mail > message to a file, or better yet, to a text editor instead of actually > sending it. Here's a quick and dirty script I use this for email testing pur

Re: PyRun_String with Py_single_input to stdout?

I found a solution using sys.displayhook here: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/593cd28e568c32e1/1e0f930e7ac5ebb2?#1e0f930e7ac5ebb2 On Jun 18, 4:24 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:45:38 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMA

Re: Custom wxPython Widget

On Jun 15, 10:24 pm, Jens Thiede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best source code to read? Any tips; suggestions? > > Thanks in advance > Jens Thiede I would recommend reading the wxPython demo source code. Also, this website has some custom widgets written in "pure wxPython", some of whi

getting the size of an object

is there a way to find out the size of an object in Python? e.g., how could i get the size of a list or a tuple? -- You're never too young to have a Vietnam flashback -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

Joel J. Adamson wrote: > people aware of it; as soon as I became aware of Emacs (from reading > Wikipedia, ironically), I began using it and I knew I was stuck with > it. It's not even important for the survival of Emacs that it be more many others get stuck with a preferred editor/system/languag

Re: getting the size of an object

On Jun 18, 11:07 am, "filox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to find out the size of an object in Python? e.g., how could > i get the size of a list or a tuple? "Size" can mean a lot of things, len(my_list) len(my_tuple) Although I have the feeling you mean "how many bytes does this

Re: Matrix Multiplication

On Jun 18, 11:20 am, Jeremy Sanders wrote: > > NumPy has a matrix type that overloads the * operator. > Just a tiny followup, which may be important unless you carefully read the > documentation. The "*" operator doesn't do matrix multiplication for normal > numpy arrays That's what I wrote: "

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

Neil Cerutti wrote: > You could get good results, and save yourself some effort, using > links or lynx with the command line options to dump page text to > a file. Python would still be needed to automate calling links or > lynx on all your documents. OP was looking for a way to parse out part of

RE: copy locked files

Do you mean files marked in-use by the OS, like DLLs used by an open application? There shouldn't be anything preventing you from copying in-use files, or even read-only files if that's what you meant: import shutil shutil.copy('C:\\my_application\\test.dll', 'C:\\new_folder\\test.dll') Alth

suggestion: recursive collections.defaultdict

It seems like x = defaultdict(defaultdict(list)) should do the obvious, but it doesn't. This seems to work y = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(list)) though is a bit uglier. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

avoid script running twice

I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, but can take too long. My simplistic script looks like ... def main(): fn = 'MARKER' if os.path.isfile(fn): log('%s: hourly job running already' % formatTime()) else: f = open(fn,'w')

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

Jay Loden wrote: > Someone else mentioned lxml but as I understand it lxml will only work if > it's valid XHTML that they're working with. No, it was meant as the OP requested. It even has a very good parser from broken HTML. http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/parsing.html#parsing-html Stefan -- htt

Re: copy locked files

Hi Adam, On 18 Jun., 18:41, "Adam Pletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you mean files marked in-use by the OS, like DLLs used by an open > application? I dont know the exact name, but some programs totally lock the files, like Visual Studio shutil.copy('C:\\a\\test\\test.ncb','C:\\b\test.n

Re: avoid script running twice

On 6/18/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, but > can take too long. > > My simplistic script looks like > > > ... > def main(): > fn = 'MARKER' > if os.path.isfile(fn): > log('%s: hourly job

Re: avoid script running twice

Robin Becker wrote: > I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, but > can take too long. > > [snip] > but it occurs to me that I might be killed with prejudice during the long > running work(). Is there a smart way to avoid running simultaneously. > Well I can

Re: avoid script running twice

On 18/06/07, Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/18/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, > > but > > can take too long. > > > > My simplistic script looks like > > > > > > ... > > def main(): > >

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

Stefan Behnel wrote: > Jay Loden wrote: >> Someone else mentioned lxml but as I understand it lxml will only work if >> it's valid XHTML that they're working with. > > No, it was meant as the OP requested. It even has a very good parser from > broken HTML. > > http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/parsi

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

Stefan Behnel wrote: > Jay Loden wrote: >> Someone else mentioned lxml but as I understand it lxml will only work if >> it's valid XHTML that they're working with. > > No, it was meant as the OP requested. It even has a very good parser from > broken HTML. > > http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/parsi

Re: avoid script running twice

On 18/06/07, Wildemar Wildenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > > I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, > > but > > can take too long. > > > > [snip] > > but it occurs to me that I might be killed with prejudice during the long > > running

A patch to support L.count(value, cmp=None, key=None)

Hi, I patched Objects/listobject.c to support L.count(value, cmp=None, key=None). I tested it with the same script above by replacing slist with built-in list. It worked correctly with this small test. The patch is below (126 lines, I hope that's not too big to be pasted here). This is the fi

IPV6 Fatal Error

Hello. I am trying to install version 2.5.1 for the first time on our Solaris 10 server (64 bit). When I execute #./config as root user, I get the following error: checking gettaddrinfo bug... buggy Fatal: You must get wroking getaddrinfo() function. or you can specify "--disable-ip

Re: avoid script running twice

On 6/18/07, Tim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/06/07, Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/18/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, > > > but > > > can take too long. > > > > > > My simpl

Re: copy locked files

Adam Pletcher wrote: > Do you mean files marked in-use by the OS, like DLLs used by an open > application? > > There shouldn't be anything preventing you from copying in-use files, or > even read-only files if that's what you meant: > > import shutil > shutil.copy('C:\\my_application\\test.

Re: avoid script running twice

Evan Klitzke wrote: > > Another method that you can use is to open up a socket on some > predetermined port (presumably above 1024), and then have your program > try to connect to that port and "talk" to the other program to > determine whether or not to run (or whether to do some of the

Re: Thunderbird access to this newsgroup

Ben Finney wrote: > Rostfrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What is the news server for this >> newsgroup. > > Usenet newsgroups are redistributed over many servers worldwide. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet> > >> If I ping comp.lang.python it is not resolved. > > That's right. I

Line Wrapping

All, Mail messages should be wrapped at 78 characters (as suggested in RFC 2822). I want my python batch scripts/cron jobs to enforce this behavior, and format the mail that is sent out so that newline characters are inserted as appropriate to keep line lengths at 78 characters or less. I wrote a

csv search and print

I have a csv file containing lot of rows & columns. I wanted to search thru the heading for each column for a string and then print all the headings and the corresponding rows if a match is found. Any advise? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Modernization of Emacs

Joel J. Adamson wrote: > Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> SIMPLE CHANGES >> >> In the following, i describe some critical changes that are also very >> easy to fix in emacs. If emacs officially adopt these changes, i think >> it will make a lot

Re: avoid script running twice

Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Robin Becker wrote: > > Well I can think of a dumb way: create a temporary file during the > transaction and have your script check for that before running its main > body. > > > I think thats the most hassle free way of doing it. > /W I looked at the te

Re: Line Wrapping

Evan Klitzke wrote: > All, > > Mail messages should be wrapped at 78 characters (as suggested in RFC > 2822). I want my python batch scripts/cron jobs to enforce this > behavior, and format the mail that is sent out so that newline > characters are inserted as appropriate to keep line lengths at 7

Re: Line Wrapping

On 6/18/07, TeroV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan Klitzke wrote: > > All, > > > > Mail messages should be wrapped at 78 characters (as suggested in RFC > > 2822). I want my python batch scripts/cron jobs to enforce this > > behavior, and format the mail that is sent out so that newline > > charac

BeautifulSoup - extract the

I'm trying to extract something like this: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/ swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width=640 height=400> http://www.macromedia.com/go/ getflashplayer type=application/x-shockwave-flash width=640 height=400 bgcolor=#00 scale= showall> I d

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

I see there is a couple of tools I could use, and I also heard of sgmllib and htmllib. So now there is lxml, Beautiful soup, sgmllib, htmllib ... Is there any of those tools that does the job I need to do more easily and what should I use? Maybe a combination of those tools, which one is better fo

Re: BeautifulSoup - extract the

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gcmartijn wrote: > I'm trying to extract something like this: > > codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/ > swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width=640 height=400> > > > http://www.macromedia.com/go/ > getflashplayer type=application/x-shockwave-f

Re: avoid script running twice

On 6/18/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan Klitzke wrote: > > > > > > Another method that you can use is to open up a socket on some > > predetermined port (presumably above 1024), and then have your program > > try to connect to that port and "talk" to the other program to

Re: suggestion: recursive collections.defaultdict

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems like > > x = defaultdict(defaultdict(list)) > > should do the obvious, but it doesn't. It *does* the obvious. Parenthesis after a name means: call this object *now*. Any other behavior wouldn't be obvious. Ciao, Marc 'Bl

Re: How to get existing frames in non-current thread?

> > Thanks a lot... I guess I'll have to find another way for versions before > 2.5 ;-) The original idea came from but it uses a compiled C extension, yes. The code is really small and you should not have problems compiling it...

Re: Parsing HTML, extracting text and changing attributes.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I see there is a couple of tools I could use, and I also heard of > sgmllib and htmllib. So now there is lxml, Beautiful soup, sgmllib, > htmllib ... > > Is there any of those tools that does the job I need to do more easily > and what should I use? Maybe a combination o

Re: avoid script running twice

On 18/06/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > > Robin Becker wrote: > . > > > > Well I can think of a dumb way: create a temporary file during the > > transaction and have your script check for that before running its main > > body. > > > > > > I thin

Re: avoid script running twice

Robin Becker wrote: > I wish to prevent a python script from running twice; it's an hourly job, but > can take too long. > > My simplistic script looks like > > > ... > def main(): > fn = 'MARKER' > if os.path.isfile(fn): > log('%s: hourly job running already' % formatTi

Re: A patch to support L.count(value, cmp=None, key=None)

> I patched Objects/listobject.c to support > L.count(value, cmp=None, key=None). > I tested it with the same script above by replacing slist > with built-in list. It worked correctly with this small > test. The patch is below (126 lines, I hope that's not Great! If you want this change includ

Re: avoid script running twice

Tim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also do this by holding a file open in write mode until the > script has finished. > >try: > open('lock.txt','w') > my_script() > except: >#print script is already running That only works under w

Re: avoid script running twice

Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at the temporary files idea, but I'm not certain about the exact > details. Normally your create a file and then remove it whilst keeping the > file > handle; that allows your program to write to it whilst guaranteeing that it > will > van

HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: EOF in middle of construct

Hi, Can someone explain me, what is wrong with this site ? python linkExtractor3.py http://www.noticiasdeaveiro.pt > test HTMLParser.HTMLParseError: EOF in middle of construct, at line 1173, column 1 at line 1173 of test file is perfectly normal . I like to know what I have to clean up before p

Re: Memory problem with Python

Squzer Crawler wrote: > On Jun 18, 11:06 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Jun 17, 8:51 pm, Squzer Crawler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> i am developing distributed environment in my college using Python. I >>> am using therads in client for downloading wepages. Even thou

Re: Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > |>oug writes: >> Scheme has a powerful syntax extension mechanism > I did not and do not see this as relevant to the main points of my > summary above. Python has powerful extension mechanisms too, but > comparing the two languages on this basis is a

Re: avoid script running twice

On 18/06/07, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can also do this by holding a file open in write mode until the > > script has finished. > > > >try: > > open('lock.txt','w') > > my_script() > > except:

Re: getting the size of an object

"Brett Hoerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Jun 18, 11:07 am, "filox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> is there a way to find out the size of an object in Python? e.g., how >> could >> i get the size of a list or a tuple? > > "Size" can mean a lot of things, > >

Re: csv search and print

On Jun 19, 4:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a csv file containing lot of rows & columns. I wanted to search thru > the > heading for each column for a string and then print all the headings and the > corresponding rows if a match is found. > > Any advise? 1. Clarify your requirements: "

Making static dicts?

Hello! Just to ask, is it possible to make a static dictionary in python. So that the keys in the dictionary cannot be removed, changed or new ones added, but the value pairs can. Is this possible with python? thanks, Ognjen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: csv search and print

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 13:11 -0700, John Machin wrote: > On Jun 19, 4:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a csv file containing lot of rows & columns. I wanted to search thru > > the > > heading for each column for a string and then print all the headings and the > > corresponding rows if a

Re: avoid script running twice

On 6/18/07, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evan Klitzke wrote: > > Another method that you can use is to open up a socket on some > > predetermined port (presumably above 1024), and then have your program > > try to connect to that port and "talk" to the other program to > > determine wh

Re: avoid script running twice

I've got a rather large log processing job here that has the same requirement. I process and sort Apache logs from an 8-way cluster. I sort and calculate statistics in 15-minute batch jobs. Only one copy should run at once. I open a file and lock it via something like this: import fcntl fhandle

Re: avoid script running twice

Note that in real life, the script exits cleanly if another copy is running... On 6/18/07, Jeff McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a rather large log processing job here that has the same > requirement. I process and sort Apache logs from an 8-way cluster. I > sort and calculate statist

Re: passing arguments to tcpserver classes

Great -- thanks! (and also to J. Ezequiel). Mark T wrote: "Eric Spaulding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there an easy way to pass arguments to a handler class that is used by the standard TCPServer? normally --> srvr =SocketServer.TCPServer(('',port_num),

Re: XMLRPC and SSL

Chaz Ginger schrieb: > I have a web service that I built and it requires using SSL. I have > found a few examples of clients using SSL but none that allow me to > change the client's certificate or the chain of certificates the client > will use to authenticate the server. > > I was wondering if a

Re: using Mac OS X CoreGraphics via ctypes

Daniel wrote: > Thanks Diez. I'll try that if I decide to keep going with ctypes. I > got a bit further but had some problems with memory management (i.e. > retaining and releasing object references). It seemed like Python/ > ctypes was accessing referenced objects after I had released them, > whic

Re: getting the size of an object

On Jun 18, 2:48 pm, "filox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a long answer? what i want is to find out the number of bytes the > object takes up in memory (during runtime). since python has a lot of > introspection mechanisms i thought that should be no problem... There isn't an automatic way

Re: A patch to support L.count(value, cmp=None, key=None)

On Jun 19, 5:17 am, "BJörn Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > persons.count("olle", key = attergetter("name")) > > is longer and just barely more readable than > > sum(1 for x in persons if x.name == "olle")) > The OP's proposal seems to have a very narrow focus, whereas the generator a

Re: avoid script running twice

Jeff McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a rather large log processing job here that has the same > requirement. I process and sort Apache logs from an 8-way cluster. I > sort and calculate statistics in 15-minute batch jobs. Only one copy > should run at once. > > I open a file and

Re: avoid script running twice

Tim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18/06/07, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Windows the open-a-file-for-writing method works well, but as *nix > doesn't work the same way then maybe the socket solution is the best > cross-platform option. Actually you could combine y

Re: Making static dicts?

On Jun 18, 1:46 pm, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > Just to ask, is it possible to make a static dictionary in python. So > that the keys in the dictionary cannot be removed, changed or new ones > added, but the value pairs can. > > Is this possible with python? > > thanks, >

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Re: getting the size of an object

filox wrote: > "Brett Hoerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Jun 18, 11:07 am, "filox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> is there a way to find out the size of an object in Python? e.g., how >>> could >>> i get the size of a list or a tuple? >> "Size" can mean a

cStringIO unicode weirdness

Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Oct 6 2006, 15:24:43) [GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import StringIO, cStringIO >>> StringIO.StringIO('a').getvalue() 'a' >>> cStringI

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