Re: Python on Intel A110?

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Roberts
think about this. I don't know what >these processors are compatible with at the binary level. Binary compatibility isn't so important. Python can be built from source. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Roberts
he exe in D:\ and did not create a Python25 directory. Where did you get the installer? I've installed Python on Windows many, many times, and have never seen this issue. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: win32com.client documentation?

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Roberts
ation of Excel spreadsheets and >> Word documents, interract with Access data bases, and so forth. >> >You might download and install Mark Hammond's PythonWin. (Ummm, win32com.client is PART of Mark Hammond's PythonWin, now called PyWin32.) -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: win32com.client documentation?

2007-10-24 Thread Tim Roberts
bsolutely invaluable for those occasions. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: local variable referenced before assignment

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Williams
On 25/10/2007, A.T.Hofkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-25, Pete Bartonly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, brackets around conditions (in the if) are not needed, and comparing > against None is usually done with 'is' or 'is not' instead of '==' or '!='. > The result is then > > if

Re: Delete all not allowed characters..

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Chase
> I want to delete all now allowed characters in my text. > I use this function: > > def clear(s1=""): > if s1: > allowed = > [u'+',u'0',u'1',u'2',u'3',u'4',u'5',u'6',u'7',u'8',u'9',u' ', u'Ş', > u'ş', u'Ö', u'ö', u'Ü', u'ü', u'Ç', u'ç', u'İ', u'ı', u'Ğ', u'ğ', 'A', > 'C', 'B', 'E', 'D

elementtree w/utf8

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Arnold
sic, but I tried installing cElementTree, but while I could compile with setup.py build, I didn't end up with a cElementTree.py file anywhere. The directory structure on my system (HPux, but no root access) doesn't work well with setup.py install. thanks, --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: elementtree w/utf8

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Arnold
"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:15:36 -0400, Tim Arnold wrote: > >> Hi, I'm getting the by-now-familiar error: >> return codecs.charmap_decode(input,errors,decodin

Re: Python Windows Installation

2007-10-26 Thread Tim Roberts
rivers if the source code lives in a path with spaces. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

2007-10-27 Thread Tim Chase
> Even clearer is not to allow octal literals :) Is there *any* use for > them? +1 I find that anything I have even the remotest inkling of using octal for can be done just as easily with hex. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

2007-10-27 Thread Tim Chase
>> Even clearer is not to allow octal literals :) Is there *any* use for >> them? > > The mode argument to os.chmod. You mean instead of import this os.chmod(filename, os.R_OK | os.W_OK | os.X_OK) which explicitly (rather than implicitly) spells it out? -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: iterating over the other and finding the greatest

2007-10-28 Thread Tim Chase
> have carry out a process a>b then i should print the line and if b>c then i > should print the line and c>d then i should print... like this i have to > continue.say for eg: 43<387 so the first row is omitted, 387 is greater then > 98 so i can print the line second row... > my code: > fh = o

Re: Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

2007-10-28 Thread Tim Roberts
3_oct : constant := 8#27#; x23_dec : constant := 10#23#; x23_hex : constant := 16#17#; The opportunities for obfuscated coding by writing all constants in base 7 boggle the mind. I'm not convinced you need delimiters on both ends; I think 16'fffe_3777 would be just as good. Alth

Re: Proposal: Decimal literals in Python.

2007-10-28 Thread Tim Roberts
t amongst the Brits who cut their teeth on 24 bit ICT/ICL >equipment... As a long-time Control Data employee, I know that 60-bit words and 18-bit addresses meant that I could do octal arithmetic nearly as fast as decimal. On the other hand, Python doesn't run on the 6000s... -- Tim Rober

Re: Built-in functions and keyword arguments

2007-10-29 Thread Tim Chase
>> >> While we're at it, you should avoid using builtin's names for >> identifiers - here, using 'object' as the arg name shadows the builtin >> 'object' class). >> > > I think you are being a little bit unfair here: help(len) says: > > len(...) > len(object) -> integer > > Retur

Re: two file into a single file

2007-10-29 Thread Tim Chase
>I have a two file, > file 1: > 17097 > 17186 > 1723 > 17895 > 17906 > 18295 > 18311 > 1880 > 19160 > 19629 > > file 2: > 17097 > 17186 > 1723 > 17895 > 17906 > 18295 > 18311 > 1880 > 19160 > 19629 > h

Re: simple try/except question

2007-10-29 Thread Tim Chase
> Is the behavior below expected? > If so, why is the exception not caught? > Thanks, > Alan Isaac > x,y='','' try: x/y > ... except TypeError: print 'oops' > ... > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'str' and 'str'

Re: elementtree w/utf8

2007-10-29 Thread Tim Arnold
"Stefan Behnel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tim Arnold wrote: >> On a related note, I have another question--where/how can I get the >> cElementTree.py module? Sorry for something so basic, but I tried >> installing >&

Re: "and" and "or" on every item in a list

2007-10-29 Thread Tim Chase
> Is this the best way to test every item in a list? > > def alltrue(f,l): > return reduce(bool.__and__,map(f,l)) > > def onetrue(f,l): > return reduce(bool.__or__,map(f,l)) > alltrue(lambda x:x>1,[1,2,3]) > False alltrue(lambda x:x>=1,[1,2,3]) > True As of Python2.5, there's

Re: two files into an alternate list

2007-10-29 Thread Tim Chase
> i have a file : > file 1: > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > > file2: > a > b > c > d > e > f > how do i make the two files into list like this = > [1,a,2,b,3,c,4,d,5,e,6,f] from itertools import cycle def serialize(*sources): while True: for source in sources: yield

Re: appending into a list; dictionary and list

2007-10-30 Thread Tim Chase
>A B C D E [snipped yet another column of random data] > I need to append the column D and E into a list: > in such a way that the list should have > [D,E,D,E,D,E] > How do i do it. You start by writ

Re: Python Interview Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Tim Chase
> I have used Python for a couple of projects last year and > I found it extremely useful. I could write two middle size > projects in 2-3 months (part time). Right now I am a bit > rusty and trying to catch up again with Python. > > I am now appearing for Job Interviews these days and I am

Re: Python Interview Questions

2007-10-30 Thread Tim Chase
>> Good luck with your interviewing and hope this helped, >> >> -tkc > > Well, I was looking exactly for this. Many thanks to you Tim. After > going through your list I came to know that I know nothing in Python > and have to catch up a whole lot. It was certainly

Re: clear shell screen

2007-10-30 Thread Tim Roberts
ythonwin? If so, then what you are looking at is not a "shell screen" in any way. It's a simulation, and I don't know of any way to clear it. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why did these companies choose Tcl over Python

2007-10-30 Thread Tim Roberts
lly, I chose Python (and wxPython), and both the client and I are quite happy with the result. (Actually, I did a Tcl binding for them as well, and just writing the text scripts reinforced my dislike for it...) -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: shouldn't 'string'.find('ugh') return 0, not -1 ?

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Chase
> if I check a string for for a substring, and this substring isn't found, > should't the .find method return 0 rather than -1? > this breaks the > > if check.find('something'): > do(somethingElse) > > idiom, which is a bit of a pity I think. That idiom is spelled: if 'something' in ch

Re: shouldn't 'string'.find('ugh') return 0, not -1 ?

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Chase
> Well, I this is another idiom in itself, right? > Your checking if something is part of an iterable. > I'm checking truth before entering a conditional expression. I'm not sure I follow. I simply replaced your if check.find('something') with if 'something' in check: which (1) is more

Re: python at command prompt

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Chase
> D:\>python > 'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > operable program or batch file. [snip] > For some strange reason, python is not recognized at the command > prompt. Sounds like your path isn't set correctly. See the first section here[1] on "Finding python.exe" -t

Re: python at command prompt

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Chase
>> [1]http://www.imladris.com/Scripts/PythonForWindows.html > > I set the pythonpath to where the python interpreter is located C: > \Python24 > However I still get the same error message. Is there something else > that must be configured? Make sure you're setting your PATH, not your PYTHONPATH v

Re: A Python 3000 Question

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Roberts
dent that I wasn't being serious. > >Ooh, now I'm curious. Seriously? You didn't know that $#x in perl returns the length of the array @x, minus 1? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why did these companies choose Tcl over Python

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Roberts
ked it enough that they've asked for another. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: os.readlink returning value

2007-11-01 Thread Tim Roberts
be relative if the symbolic link is relative, and absolute if the symbolic link is absolute. ln -s ../../over/there here1 ln -s /home/timr/spot here2 "here1" is a relative link. "here2" is an absolute link. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: new style class

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Chase
gert wrote: > On Nov 2, 12:27 pm, Boris Borcic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> gert wrote: >>> class Test(object): >>> def execute(self,v): >>> return v >>> def escape(v): >>> return v >>> if __name__ == '__main__': >>> gert = Test() >>> print gert.m1('1') >>> pri

Re: Syntax coloring in Python interpreter

2007-11-02 Thread Tim Golden
Neil Cerutti wrote: > On 2007-11-01, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 1, 2007 3:01 PM, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 2007-11-01, Lee Capps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:45 PM, braver wrote: > Greetings -- as a long time user of both Pytho

tkinter Ignoring Certain Key Presses?

2007-01-09 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Windows. Ctl 1-5: FreeBSD, Cygwin/X (local or connected to FreeBSD), Windows - i.e. Does not seem to work anywhere. Ideas anyone? -- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com

Re: Maths error

2007-01-10 Thread Tim Peters
[Tim Peters] ... >> Huh. I don't read it that way. If it said "numbers can be ..." I >> might, but reading that way seems to requires effort to overlook the >> "decimal" in "decimal numbers can be ...". [Nick Maclaren] > I wouldn'

Re: how to clean sys.path

2007-01-10 Thread Tim Roberts
n by "used during a lot of trials and errors"? sys.path is recreated from scratch every time Python starts. It doesn't accumulate over time, other than from new packages that you install. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

RE: py2exe: zipfile=None raised ImportError

2007-01-11 Thread Tim Wise
I clean before a compile. The exe contains all the modules (pyc) listed in the trace back message (linecache, zipextimporter, and optparse), except boot_common.py. Should that be in the exe? I'm trying to build on Windows XP using Python 2.4.4 and py2exe 0.6.5 Thanks. -- Tim Wise -Ori

Re: parsing a file name

2007-01-12 Thread Tim Williams
On 12 Jan 2007 09:16:51 -0800, CSUIDL PROGRAMMEr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a filename > cairo-2.3.4.src.rpm > Is there any way i can only get 2.3.4 from this file name Is this a one off, or do you have to process multiple files with similar names? -- Tim Wi

Re: how to clean sys.path

2007-01-12 Thread Tim Roberts
ngs\User\My Documents\My Python files\wxDemos'. And AnalogClock.py >does work when residing in that directory. wxDemos contains the demos. The "wx" module lives in site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-ansi. Did you leave that in? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: WMI Python, writing remotely and retrieving env variables values

2007-01-13 Thread Tim Golden
Thierry Lam wrote: > I'm using the WMI library for python and I was able to connect to > another computer on the network with the following line: > > c = wmi.WMI(computer="the-network-computer", user="hello", > password="hello") > > Is there a way to write information to a file on that computer? >

Re: WMI Python, writing remotely and retrieving env variables values

2007-01-13 Thread Tim Williams
On 13 Jan 2007 02:01:11 -0800, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thierry Lam wrote: > > I'm using the WMI library for python and I was able to connect to > > another computer on the network with the following line: > > > > c = wmi.WMI(comput

Re: Maths error

2007-01-13 Thread Tim Peters
[Nick Maclaren] >> ... >> Yes, but that wasn't their point. It was that in (say) iterative >> algorithms, the error builds up by a factor of the base at every >> step. If it wasn't for the fact that errors build up, almost all >> programs could ignore numerical analysis and still get reliable >> a

Re: Maths error

2007-01-14 Thread Tim Roberts
utation twice, once to compute the minimum, once to compute the maximum. When you're done, you can be confident that the true answer lies within the interval. For people just getting into it, it can be shocking to realize just how wide the interval can become after some computations. -- Tim R

Re: Python web app. (advice sought)

2007-01-15 Thread Tim Williams
On 15 Jan 2007 00:52:33 -0800, Torabisu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Duncan Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > I find myself in the, for me, unusual (and at the moment unique) > > position of having to write a web application. I have quite a lot of > > existing Python code that will form part of t

Re: Search Queue

2007-01-16 Thread Tim Golden
abcd wrote: > I have a class such as... [... ] > And I am storing them in a Queue.Queue... > > import Queue > q = Queue.Queue() > q.put(Foo('blah')) > q.put(Foo('hello world')) > q.put(Foo('test')) > > how can I search "q" for an instance of Foo which has 'id' equal to say > 2? Typically a queue

Re: Python web app. (advice sought)

2007-01-16 Thread Tim Williams
On 16/01/07, Ralf Schönian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would also like to vote for Karrigell. > > BTW: Does anyone knows how to avoid stopping/starting of the webserver > after changing external libraries? I have some own modules under > /opt/local/python/lib and import them by extending the

Re: Check a windows service

2007-01-16 Thread Tim Golden
awel wrote: > I'm new in python and I would like to know if it's possible to check if > a specific windows service is present and if it's possible how can I > do? This is one way: http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html#automatic_services You'd have to change that example slightly

Re: smtplib question

2007-01-16 Thread Tim Williams
On 16/01/07, gandalf gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I was trying out smtplib and found out that I can email to anyone in my > domain but not to an email address not in the domain. From browsing on the > web, it seems that this has to do with the configuration of the mail serve

Re: Check a windows service

2007-01-17 Thread Tim Golden
awel wrote: > Sorry, but could you give me an example with a real service 'cause I've > tried this script but nothings happened, no error, nothings ; even if I > launch it in cmd prompt. Well, as that example said, it was designed to show automatic services which are not running. If you don't have

Re: generate tuples from sequence

2007-01-17 Thread Tim Williams
On 17 Jan 2007 04:50:33 -0800, Will McGugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will McGugan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'd like a generator that takes a sequence and yields tuples containing > > n items of the sqeuence, but ignoring the 'odd' items. For example > > Forgot to add, for my purposes I will a

Re: Units of measurement

2007-01-19 Thread Tim Roberts
peed of light actually was in furlongs per fortnight. Now I need to figure out how to work that into a cocktail party conversation. "Hey, the deficit isn't the only thing that is approaching 1.8 trillion..." -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2007-01-19 Thread Tim Roberts
ice. You either need to switch to a one of the web frameworks (like CherryPy or Django or WebWare or one of the hundreds of others), or move to PHP. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to read and write huge binary files

2007-01-19 Thread Tim Roberts
"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" t

Re: Help with 'popen'

2007-01-22 Thread Tim Roberts
27;] = 'hello' >py> os.popen('echo $asdfasdf').read() >'hello\n' For completeness, let us anticipate the followup question and point out that "permanent" here means "for this process and any processes that it spawns". Once the Python session ends, the "asdfasdf" will be lost. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python grammar

2007-01-22 Thread Tim Roberts
> >http://docs.python.org/ref/Booleans.html > >In 'expression' rule - what does 'if', 'else' mean? I guess 'if' and >'else' must be keywords, not non-terminals. Yes, those refer to literal keywords. I'd judge both of those as erro

Re: smtplib starttls gmail example - comments?

2007-01-24 Thread Tim Williams
On 24/01/07, py <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love for anybody to comment on this code with regard to > redundancy/efficiency/wordiness or whatever else. > for instance, do i understand correctly that i cant have a try: else: without > an intervening except:? > -dave > > stdout.wri

Re: smtplib starttls gmail example - comments?

2007-01-24 Thread Tim Williams
On 24/01/07, BJ Swope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 1/24/07, Tim Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 24/01/07, py <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would love for anybody to comment on this code with regard to > redun

Re: While loop with "or"? Please help!

2007-01-25 Thread Tim Williams
; But note that 'in' performs a substring search and therefore "yn" and "" > > would be accepted as valid answers, too. > > Mmm, right. Thanks for the correction. > > => >while not usrinp.lower() in ['y', 'n']: or better still while usrinp.lower() not in ['y', 'n']: :):) -- Tim Williams -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: doctest problem with null byte

2007-01-25 Thread Tim Peters
[Stuart D. Gathman] > I am trying to create a doctest test case for the following: > > def quote_value(s): > """Quote the value for a key-value pair in Received-SPF header > field if needed. No quoting needed for a dot-atom value. > > >>> quote_value(r'abc\def') > '"abcdef"

Re: Win XP "Sleep" mode: can Py wake up?

2007-01-26 Thread Tim Golden
> Does anyone have any experience having python deal with sleep mode? I'd > love to run something that would hear a sleep event coming and pickle > some data before sleep, then after coming out of sleep, unpickle... It should, in theory, be possibly by trapping the WMI Win32_PowerManagementEvent

Re: What is the dummy statement that do nothing in Python?

2007-01-31 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Dongsheng Ruan wrote: > I remember that in python there is some kind of dummy statement that just > holds space and does nothing. > > I want it to hold the place after a something like if a>b: do nothing > > I can't just leave the space blank after if statement because there will be > error mes

Re: win32com.client

2007-02-01 Thread Tim Roberts
>Here is a prove:- >>>> import win32com > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in >import win32com >ImportError: No module named win32com >>>> > >you try in your computer It works just fine in my computer, because I

Re: COM makepy util finds multiple versions of my COM object

2007-02-04 Thread Tim Roberts
ating different GUIDs every time you register the thing. If so, you need to unregister the old version before you register a new one. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: excel find last column

2007-02-09 Thread Tim Golden
Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > I ran makepy.py and loaded Microsoft Excel Object Library 11.0 > I have imported: > > import win32com.client > from win32com.client import constants > import re > import codecs,win32com.client > import time > import datetime > import win32com.client.dynamic > > > using t

Re: Database Programming with Python

2007-02-11 Thread Tim Roberts
s Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=x.mdb" ) cmd = win32com.client.Dispatch('ADODB.Command') cmd.ActiveConnection = conn cmd.CommandText = "SELECT firstname,lastname FROM users;" rs = cmd.Execute()[0] while not rs.EOF: # Use elements of rs rs.MoveNext() There are samples on

Re: WindowsNT user authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Tim Golden
billie wrote: > Hi there, > I would like to submit a username/password pair to a Windows NT > workstation and find out if it's valid. > Moreover I would like to get the user's home directory given the > username. > Does it is possible to do that by using pywin32 extension? http://timgolden.me.uk/p

Re: WindowsNT user authentication

2007-02-12 Thread Tim Golden
billie wrote: > Do you got any idea about how getting user's home directory? The answer to that is unfortunately slightly complicated, because Windows has no such thing as a "user's home directory" or, if you prefer, it has several such things. If you want, you can let Python make the decision,

Re: WindowsNT user authentication

2007-02-14 Thread Tim Golden
billie wrote: > Another question, I'm sorry. > Do you got any idea about how to get permissions of a file/directory > given the username? > For example: I would like to know if C:\my_file.ext is readable/ > writable by user 'x' or not. This is an unfortunately messy question. The easiest answer --

Re: WindowsNT user authentication

2007-02-14 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Golden wrote: > billie wrote: >> Another question, I'm sorry. >> Do you got any idea about how to get permissions of a file/directory >> given the username? >> For example: I would like to know if C:\my_file.ext is readable/ >> writable by user 'x&#

Re: How to ping and shutdown a remote computer?

2007-02-14 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is my current setup: > > [... BSD ...] > - Windows XP machine with folder share (What packet is sent over the > network to remotely shutdown a Windows XP machine?) > > My hope is to have a script then when you start it will list all your > remote computers/servers

Re: how do "real" python programmers work?

2007-02-15 Thread Tim Golden
Youth work in Ealing). Tim Golden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Command line prompt broken on XP with Python 2.5 - help!

2007-02-16 Thread Tim Golden
Endless Story wrote: > On Feb 16, 9:56 am, "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 16, 5:52 am, "Endless Story" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are you talking about the Environment Variables-->System Variable-->path? >> You may want to right click on My Computer-->System Properties-->Advanced-->

Re: Group Membership in Active Directory Query

2007-02-16 Thread Tim Golden
Kooch54 wrote: >> Thanks for your response and Uwe I apologize if I misunderstood >> and misinterpreted your comments. I am sorry. >> I have tried Tim's module called active_directory and it works really >> well. But I can't figure out how to connect to a specific group is I >> know the comm

Re: Sorting directory contents

2007-02-20 Thread Tim Williams
On 20/02/07, Wolfgang Draxinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > H folks, > > I got, hmm not really a problem, more a question of elegance: > > In a current project I have to read in some files in a given > directory in chronological order, so that I can concatenate the > contents in those files into a

Re: How can I track/monitor an application and system resources.

2007-02-22 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm a newbie to Python! > > I am trying to develop a program that monitors the performance of an > application. The kind of information I am interested in is the CPU/ > Process/Thread and memory performance. Specifically, I would like to > track the foll

Re: How can I track/monitor an application and system resources.

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The phone reference is actually because the target device is WM 5.0. > I've found a python port Pyce that will run on this platform. We have > a target application that runs on this platform which we would like to > develop some automated tests for. The application is w

Re: CSV(???)

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Golden
Philipp Pagel wrote: > David C. Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a csvlib out there somewhere? > > How about csv in the standard library? > >> (Um: Believe it or not I'm _still_ using >> python 1.5.7. > > I have no idea if csv was part of the standard library backin those > days...

Re: Finding non ascii characters in a set of files

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Arnold
"Peter Bengtsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Feb 23, 2:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm updating my program to Python 2.5, but I keep running into >> encoding problems. I have no ecodings defined at the start of any of >> my scripts. What I'd l

Re: Finding non ascii characters in a set of files

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Arnold
"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Arnold wrote: > > Untested: > > import os, sys, codecs > > def checkfile(filename): >f = codecs.open(filename

Re: Finding non ascii characters in a set of files

2007-02-23 Thread Tim Arnold
"Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Arnold wrote: > >> Here's what I do (I need to know the line number). >> >> import os,sys,codecs >> def c

Re: ez_setup.py

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
Nader Emami wrote: > L.S., > > I have installed locally Python-2.4.4 without any problem. Then I would > install the "ez_setup.py" to be able using of "easy_install" tool, but I > get the next error: > > %python ez_setup.py > Traceback (most recent call last): >File "ez_setup.py", line 223,

Re: ez_setup.py

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
Nader Emami wrote: > Tim Golden wrote: >> Nader Emami wrote: >>> L.S., >>> >>> I have installed locally Python-2.4.4 without any problem. Then I >>> would install the "ez_setup.py" to be able using of "easy_install" >>>

Re: ez_setup.py

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
Nader Emami wrote: >>> How can do the second solution, (take off the home from Python path)? >> >> Depends on your setup. Since you're on *nix, I can't >> test whether $HOME is automatically on sys.path (it >> isn't on Win32). Are you running *in* /usr/people/emami? >> If so, go somewhere else bef

Re: ez_setup.py

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
Nader Emami wrote: > Tim Golden wrote: >> Nader Emami wrote: >> >>>>> How can do the second solution, (take off the home from Python path)? >>>> >>>> Depends on your setup. Since you're on *nix, I can't >>>> test whether

Re: ez_setup.py

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
Nader Emami wrote: > Tim Golden wrote: >> Nader Emami wrote: >>> Tim Golden wrote: >>>> Nader Emami wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> How can do the second solution, (take off the home from Python >>>>>>> path)? >>>

[Fwd: Re: ez_setup.py]

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
OK. He's solved it. For the historical record... Tim Golden wrote: > Nader Emami wrote: >> Tim Golden wrote: >>> Nader Emami wrote: >>>> Tim Golden wrote: >>>>> Nader Emami wrote: >>>>> >>>>>&

Re: How can I disable a device in windows using python

2007-02-26 Thread Tim Golden
Phoe6 wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to disable the NIC card (and other cards) enabled in my > machine to test diagnostics on that card. > I am trying to disable it programmatic using python. I checked python > wmi and i could not find ways to disable/enable, (listing is however, > possible). Sinc

Re: Importing WMI in a child Thread throws an error

2007-02-27 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem I have is that since I import WMI, it takes a long time > and we have users complaining about it. So I stuck the import > statement into a separate thread and set it to a daemon so it could do > its thing in the background and the rest of the script would fin

Re: [OT] python notation in new NVIDIA architecture

2007-02-27 Thread Tim Roberts
guage has identifiers >such as __device__, __global__, __shared__, etc. Is it a coincidence? >Probably it is. :) Well, identifiers starting with an underline are reserved for implementation use in ISO standard C++, so the chicken and egg question is an interesting one.. -- Tim Roberts,

Re: Importing WMI in a child Thread throws an error

2007-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> The problem I have is that since I import WMI, it takes a long time >>> and we have users complaining about it. So I stuck the import >>> s

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
[... re getting free disk space ...] Sick Monkey wrote: > Here you are: > > >>> from win32com.client import GetObject wmiObj = GetObject("winmgmts:MGW01641\\root\\cimv2") diskinfo = wmiObj.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_LogicalDisk") for disk in diskinfo: > ...print disk.N

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
kevinliu23 wrote: > Thanks so much for the help guys. I got the code Sick Monkey provided > to work on my computer. Now I"m more confused than ever though. :) I > thought the only standard modules provided by Python are listed here: > > http://docs.python.org/modindex.html > > But it appears that

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
kevinliu23 wrote: > Just tried your solution Tim, worked like a charm. :) > > It's great because I don't even have to worry about the computer name. > A question regarding the rootPath parameter...how would I be passing > it? Would I be passing it as... > >tu

Re: How to check for remaining hard drive space in Windows?

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HI, > > I am new to Python and wanted to know how to check for the remaining > disk space on my Windows machine using Python? I was thinking of using > the command line "dir" and trying to extract the output from there. > But I'm not sure how to extract command line stri

Re: Reading csv files using SQL

2007-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
Pablo was Paolo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: >> If you want to work directly with the files why not just use Python's csv >> module? > > Now, with Java, I use the same class to read several databases and csv > files (with SQL instructions). > I'd like to find a library for using the sam

Re: Python win32 tools

2007-03-02 Thread Tim Golden
Sick Monkey wrote: > I am trying to build a python program that will reset a user's account > (password) on a windows machine. I have been working with win32 > objects and was wondering if this functionality was already built in. I'm going to assume that "win32 objects" is the stuff in the pywin32

Re: python at command prompt

2007-11-03 Thread Tim Roberts
", and that DOES require registering the .py extension and adding .py to the PATHEXT environment variable. A very useful thing to do, by the way. I have many command line tools for which I have forgotten whether they are batch files, small executables, or Python scripts. And that's

Re: Python thinks file is empty

2007-11-05 Thread Tim Chase
loial wrote: > I am writing a file in python with writelines > > f = open('/home/john/myfile',"w") > f.writelines("line1\n") > f.writelines("line2\n") > f.close() > > But whenever I try to do anything with the file in python it finds no > data. I am trying ftp, copying the file...the resultant f

Re: python at command prompt

2007-11-05 Thread Tim Roberts
not an expert here ;-) Yes, that's strictly for COM. And the "App Paths" registry key you mentioned is only for Explorer things, like the Start menu's "Run" box. It doesn't apply to the command line. Try typing "wordpad" in a cmd shell, then try it

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