Re: Can't get Python for Windows to run

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Golden
Tim Rowe wrote: I have Python 2.5 working just fine on my system. I've tried downloading and installing the MS Windows Python extensions, but can't get pythonw.exe (that's the windows executable, right?) to do anything. I double-click it, nothing happens. I run it from a command

Re: Can't get Python for Windows to run

2008-07-04 Thread Tim Rowe
2008/7/4 Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ummm. That's the Python interpreter but without a window so > (unhelpfully, from your point of view) it's doing exactly the > right thing. > > I assume you were trying to run the PythonWin Python > interpreter and de

Re: win32com.client (Howto edit Contacts in Outlook)

2008-07-05 Thread Tim Roberts
ress, and Outlook Express cannot be controlled by COM (although MAPI works). -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python with Ecmascript

2008-07-05 Thread Tim Roberts
with? I mean, what kind of a program is this? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Hands-on HTML Table Parser/Matrix?

2008-07-06 Thread Tim Cook
There are couple of HTML examples using Pyparsing here: http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/Examples --Tim On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 14:40 +0200, robert wrote: > Often I want to extract some web table contents. Formats are > mostly static, simple text & numbers in it, other tags to be

Re: python mysteriously halts

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Golden
Todd wrote: I ran a python script last night which connects to a matlab automation server via DCOM (using win32com). I expected to see the results when I came in this morning. But apparently, not long after I left, python stopped. I hit enter in the console, and it started again. Symptomati

Re: Can't get Python for Windows to run

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Rowe
t; > msiexec /i 'ProgramMenuFolder=C:\Documents and Settings\All > Users\StartMenu\Programs\Programming' Thanks, that looks like just what I need. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to recognize IE window already opened using win32com extension

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Golden
korean_dave wrote: How do I use the win32com API to manipulate IE windows ALREADY open? ie = Dispatch("InternetExplorer.Application") opens a new window. But I'd like to be able to find, of windows already open, a specific window (with a specified property, matching url, etc.) I have this str

Re: SQLite and Python 2.4

2008-07-07 Thread Tim Grove
There is an "SQLite Manager" add-on for Firefox which is pretty neat. Have a look at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=sqlite&cat=all. Might be useful to you! Tim Steffen Mutter wrote: Hi Joe! Am Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:51:35 -0700 schrieb Joe Goldthwaite:

Re: Newbie question

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Golden
A.T.Hofkamp wrote: On 2008-07-09, |e0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, i can't use wmi module on linux? On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Lamonte Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the win32 module is only for windows. Welcome to the world outside MS. Many python modules don't actually

Re: a simple 'for' question

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Cook
> it says: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: > 'Folder/1/myfile.txt' > I believe it's because x is the position marker what you want instead is the contents of folders at x; therefore folders[x] HTH, Tim -- Timothy Cook, MSc Health Informatics Resea

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Cook
em 1' > > > The weather is nice > Item 1 > We will go to the seaside > ... > > Only the lines coming after Item 1 should be read file=open(filename) while True: line=file.readline() if not line: break if &#

Re: start reading from certain line

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Cook
em 1' > > > The weather is nice > Item 1 > We will go to the seaside > ... > > Only the lines coming after Item 1 should be read file=open(filename) while True: line=file.readline() if not line: break if &#

Re: Newbie question

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Golden
|e0 wrote: I did not mean to use WMI on linux, but query win machines *from* linux. Thank you for your clarifications In principle you ought to be able to use some kind of DCOM bridge (since WMI access if via COM/DCOM). I've no idea if anyone's attempted this or even if all the pieces are in pl

Re: Allow tab completion when inputing filepath?

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Golden
Keith Hughitt wrote: I've been looking around on the web for a way to do this, but so far have not come across anything for this particular application. I have found some ways to enable tab completion for program-related commands, but not for system filepaths. This would be nice to have when prom

Re: FOSS projects exhibiting clean/good OOP?

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Cook
es that description. :-) In addition to the two links in the signature below where you can get a description and source code; there is an entry on Ohloh that says it is well documented code. http://www.ohloh.net/projects/oship I would appreciate your feedback. Cheers, Tim PS. The Launchpad an

python scalability

2008-07-09 Thread Tim Mitchell
uble convincing myself, let alone him. If you are involved in this kind of thing please get in touch with me. Thanks, Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a simple 'for' question

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Roberts
es: IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: >> "Folder/['1']/myfile.txt" Just like that. >As far as the Python question of string substitution, "%s" % var is an >appropriate way. Right. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Allow tab completion when inputing filepath?

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Golden
Keith Hughitt wrote: On Jul 9, 10:18 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Keith Hughitt wrote: I've been looking around on the web for a way to do this, but so far have not come across anything for this particular application. I have found some ways to enable tab completion

Re: win32com.client (Howto edit Contacts in Outlook)

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Golden
Bill Davy wrote: I'm not sure OL2003 can read news. I think perhaps some later OL can (added tot he View menu, perhaps?). So I use OL Express to read news. The OL with which I wish to communicate is: Application name Outlook Version 11.0 Build 8217 Product ID 70141-700-0350904-56905 Languag

Re: Python / Windows process control

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Golden
Salim Fadhley wrote: Does anybody know of a python module which can do process management on Windows? The sort of thing that we might usually do with taskmgr.exe or process explorer? For example: * Kill a process by ID * Find out which process ID is locking an object in the filesystem * Find ou

Re: Local User Control

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Golden
Sparky wrote: I don't know how feasible this is, but is it possible to have users log in to access a local database file in such a way that allows the program to know what user name and password they logged in with? This would involve separate user names and passwords for each user. Well, this

Re: Local User Control

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Golden
Sparky wrote: On Jul 10, 9:58 am, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sparky wrote: I don't know how feasible this is, but is it possible to have users log in to access a local database file in such a way that allows the program to know what user name and password they logged in

Re: python scalability

2008-07-10 Thread Tim Mitchell
Thanks for all the replies - they have all been helpful. On reflection I think our problems are probably design and people related. Cheers, Tim Michele Simionato wrote: On Jul 10, 6:32 am, Tim Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I work on a desktop application that ha

Re: importing .dll in a python file

2008-07-11 Thread Tim Golden
moijes12 wrote: I need to use a .dll from a python script.I have installed pywin.But in the program ,which is like: import dllName I get : Import Error : DLL not found Please suggest a solution! Well, the short answer is: use the ctypes module. The longer answer is: read around the subjec

Re: win32com.client (Howto edit Contacts in Outlook)

2008-07-11 Thread Tim Golden
Bill Davy wrote: and since then have been busy with work, and my other job, and the garden. Aha! So you're English, are you? Looks like you're in the West Country. Weather map suggests you're not short of rain over there :) Now I am back looking at this (and using WInUSB to talk to a Maxim 342

Re: win32com.client (Howto edit Contacts in Outlook)

2008-07-11 Thread Tim Golden
Bill Davy wrote: Traceback (most recent call last): File "H:/Personal/OutlookIF1/t2.py", line 18, in outlook = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch ("Outlook.Application") File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 536, in EnsureDispatch mod = EnsureM

Functional/Best?

2008-07-13 Thread Tim Cook
reates an instance of the class ItemTree. I currently use an if ..., elif ... construct. Is there a better, more efficient, more Pythonic way of doing this? Thanks, Tim -- ** Join the OSHIP project. It is th

Re: Malaysia python user group

2008-07-13 Thread Tim Cook
Marcus, You should probably contact the Malaysian Public Sector Open Source Competency Centre (OSCC) in Cyberjaya. http://www.oscc.org.my HTH, Tim On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:57 +0800, Marcus.CM wrote: > Hi, > > I am thinking of promoting Python for the local developers here in &

Re: while var, but var ==16 != true

2008-07-13 Thread Tim Roberts
and it's one of the things I love about Python. >so obv while var means while not empty or why not zero but it isnt >something youd guess unless youd beeen shown it. It's clearly stated in the documentation. I don't know how you concluded that True and False were the only b

Re: About wmi

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Golden
codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) [... snip code ...] You should probably post this to comp.python.windows. Tim Golden (author of WMI interface) monitors that list religously (thanks Tim). Actually, I follow this one pretty much, too. I've just

Unicode confusion

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Cook
ved a 'str' What is the correct way to interpret these symbols that come to me as a string? Thanks, Tim -- ** Join the OSHIP project. It is the standards based, open source healthcare application platform

Re: Zipping files

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
dp_pearce wrote: Hi all, I have come across an error while using zipfile and I can't seem to find somewhere that explains the problem. My script needs to be able to take text files from one drive and add them to zip files on another drive. The following seems to work just fine. import zipfile

Re: How can I save command prompt screen

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
Ty hensons wrote: how can i save my command prompt screen? (Trying to be helpful here...) What do mean by "save" and what do you mean by "command prompt screen"? And, especially, what platform are you running on? TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: About wmi

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: Situation (2): result = new_process.terminate() File "C:\Python25\lib\wmi.py", line 494, in __getattr__ handle_com_error (error_info) File "C:\Python25\lib\wmi.py", line 190, in handle_com_error raise x_wmi, "\n".join (exception_string) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' co

Re: About wmi

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: Situation (1): result = new_process.terminate() TypeError: 'int' object is not callable I'm not sure exactly what's causing that particular effect, but I would suggest that you call the method as .Terminate (note the initial capital). On my box, calling .terminate simply raise

Re: Zipping files

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
dp_pearce wrote: When I saw "Permission denied", this was my suspicion. And I think you are very right. I have just gone back and tried writing to a file outside of C:, in this case C:/output/, and it seems to work again. Would I be right in guessing there is no way around this? Well, you coul

Re: need ldap windows binary and/or installation help

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
Sells, Fred wrote: I'm running python 2.5 (or 2.4) in an XP environment. I downloaded and installed the .dll's from OpenLDAP-2.4.8+OpenSSL-0.9.8g-Win32.zip and copied the .dll's in c:/windows/system32 as instructed now I get this error. Is there anyway to avoid building the python_ldap b

Re: File Locking Forced? Newbie question.

2008-07-15 Thread Tim Golden
Sparky wrote: Hello! I am writing some software that will have many users accessing the same file resource at once for reading purposes only. I am programming on (Ubuntu) Linux and my question is in Windows, can I have it so that the same file can be open in read mode by more than one person or c

Re: About wmi

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: http://timgolden.me.uk/wmi-project/wmi.py It cannot work either. Oh well. It was only a quick fix! I'll try to get some kind of non-ASCII edition of Windows to test against. As I understand it, the situation is that some WMI exception (ie coming from the underlying WMI/COM subsy

Re: isPrime works but UnBoundLocalError when mapping on list

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
Andreas Tawn wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: Wrong. Thank you. For loop variables continue after the loop exits. This is intentional. I never knew that and I can't find reference to it in the docs. Interesting starting point. It never occurred to me that they might not. (So I didn't look for an

Re: How to figure out if the platform is 32bit or 64bit?

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Ken Hartling wrote: > Thanks .. but I want to find out if the system is "running on 64bit" > even when the interpreter is a 32-bit build executable ("what python > was built on"). platform.architecture() and platform() in general > seems to only be looking at the build

Re: About wmi

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: > The errors are in the following: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "D:\My Documents\code\python\wmi\test.py", line 5, in > c = wmi.WMI ("non-existent computer") > File "C:\Python25\lib\wmi.py", line 1199, in connect > handle_com_error (error_info) > File

Re: About wmi

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: > -2147023174 > 'RPC \xb7\xfe\xce\xf1\xc6\xf7\xb2\xbb\xbf\xc9\xd3\xc3\xa1\xa3' > None > None > > -- > import pythoncom > import win32com.client > > > try: > win32com.client.GetObject ("winmgmts://blahblah") > exc

Re: About wmi

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
Assuming that the error comes back in the sys.stdout encoding, the following version *should* work ok. I still haven't got a non-English set up to test it on, but it certainly does return a Unicode error message. http://timgolden.me.uk/wmi-project/wmi.py The usual test case, if you wouldn't min

Re: About wmi

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: import wmi wmi.WMI('non-existent computer') > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > File "C:\Python25\lib\wmi.py", line 1199, in connect > handle_com_error (error_info) > File "C:\Python25\lib\wmi.py", line 184, in handle_com_error > excep

Re: About wmi

2008-07-16 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: > On 7月17日, 上午12时16分, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Assuming that the error comes back in the sys.stdout encoding, the following >> version *should* work ok. I still haven't got a non-English set up to test >> it on, but it certainly doe

Re: About wmi

2008-07-17 Thread Tim Golden
patrol wrote: I will try to modify the wmi.py ,however I'm a novice.It will take a long time. You can give it up temporarily. If you don't mind ,can you tell me where needs modifying and how? Just unicode? Or Other? OK. Thanks for your patience on this one, Patrol. What I propose to do is to di

Re: How can i use a variable without define it ?

2008-07-17 Thread Tim Roberts
er, you have some overall problem you are trying to solve, and you have focused in on one POSSIBLE solution. Instead, tell us about the PROBLEM, and we'll offer good solutions. >If you can't give a solution, just ignore it! NO ONE will be able to give you a solution, because you h

Re: % sign in python?

2008-07-17 Thread Tim Roberts
n this contexted, it was mapping operator. What?? Python does not have a "mapping operator". It has a "map" function, but no equivalent operator. % is either the string formatting operator (when the left-hand operand is a string) or the modulo operator (when the left-hand op

Re: Missing sqlite3.h Error when Building Debug Python -- Windows Vista

2008-07-20 Thread Tim Golden
Bev in TX wrote: I am a complete newbie at building Python. I am trying to build it under MS Windows Vista (64-bit AMD) with MS VS2005. I'm doing that because I need debug libraries, which I did not see in the standard distribution. I'll leave others to comment on whether or not it's expected

Re: % sign in python?

2008-07-20 Thread Tim Roberts
Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Tim Roberts wrote: >> Steven Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Terry Reedy wrote: >>>> korean_dave wrote: >>>>> What does this operator do? Specifically in this context >>

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-20 Thread Tim Roberts
dard. >I'm not dissing Python, here. Just noting that, if it is written in C, >that throws a curve at me in trying to balance the value of learning >Python vs. some other major language. I would say you have a very strange criteria for deciding whether a language is worth learn

Re: ntlm authentication

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Golden
Neuberger, Sheldon N. wrote: Is there any way to make urllib2 handle NTLM authentication? Frankly, I'd hate to try. Have a look at this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntlmaps/ in case it helps, either by providing a solution or at least by illustrating some code. In addition, look at the s

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Golden
mk wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: Using punch-cards and paper-tape. Real programmers can edit their programs with a pointy stick and some home-made sticky-tape. Wrong! Real programmers can program using only Touring machine Is that some kind of bicycle? TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Missing sqlite3.h Error when Building Debug Python -- Windows Vista

2008-07-22 Thread Tim Golden
Bev in TX wrote: Thanks for letting me know about this. I installed Subversion and tried to make the build work like that, but it fails. [... snip problems ...] I'm afraid I'm not using VS 2005, nor Vista, nor 64-bit, so I hope someone else can help. If you don't get any take-up here try the

Re: Is this a valid use of 'import'?

2008-07-22 Thread Tim Golden
Frank Millman wrote: In this particular case, when it is executed, it does a whole lot more. It reads in some parameters, establishes a socket connection, starts a thread, and starts monitoring the socket using select.select. It also exposes some functions that disguise the complexity of reading

Re: interpreter vs. compiled

2008-07-22 Thread Tim Roberts
or), to move Python to the >further step of outputting the machine code? I don't know why you think GNU has anything to do with this. There's nothing that prevents the Python run-time from JIT compiling the code. IronPython does this. CPython does not. It's an implementati

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-07-22 Thread Tim Roberts
. gcc generates a text file and pipes it to gas. The __asm__ directive just adds strings to the assembler file. Visual C++ generates machine language. The compiler has to include an assembler for inline assembly. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://

Re: Recursion Performance Question

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Golden
B wrote: Now it works, but it runs quite slow (compared to the c++ app). I changed gwl from strait recursion to use a generator and that helped, but it still takes 0.5-1.0 seconds to populate the tree. What I'm wondering is am I doing it in a really inefficient way, or is it just python? W

Re: Python / PAMIE

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Golden
frankrentef wrote: Can someone help with a PAMIE issue? I'm new to Python / PAMIE and they seem like great tools but to be honest I'm finding that no responses to questions can be found (Experts Exchange, etc.) I'm hoping this will be the place. I tried to duplicate the authors "ie.writeScript

Re: Python / PAMIE

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Golden
frankrentef wrote: Can someone help with a PAMIE issue? I'm new to Python / PAMIE and they seem like great tools but to be honest I'm finding that no responses to questions can be found (Experts Exchange, etc.) I'm hoping this will be the place. I tried to duplicate the authors "ie.writeScript

Re: Attack a sacred Python Cow

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Golden
Just wondered whether the OP's Subject was a deliberate play on "flog a dead horse" or merely an ironic one :) TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python / PAMIE

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Golden
frankrentef wrote: THNX for your response. Based on the authors code it's very simple. from cPAMIE import PAMIE ie=PAMIE () #ie.navigate ("google.com") #ie.linkClick #ie.textBoxSet #ie.writeScript ie.navigate ('https://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=us') #ie.scriptWrite () ie.scriptWrite

Re: Gracefull application exit.

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Golden
Robert Rawlins wrote: I’m looking to implement an exit/termination process for an application which can be triggered by A) a keyboard interrupt or B) termination of the application as a Daemon using a signal. I have a whole bunch of tasks I want to perform as a cleanup before the application

Re: interpreter vs. compiled

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Roberts
o; the user's code is compiled into machine language. Both of them are "Python". -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Broken examples

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Roberts
client excel = win32com.client.Dispatch( 'Excel.Application' ) xlCSV = 6 ... for nm in list_of_file_names: csv = os.path.splitext( nm )[0] + '.csv' wb = excel.Workbooks.Open( nm ) wb.SaveAs( csv, xlCSV ) wb.Close() If you want to watch the progress, add &

Re: pci card adjusting

2008-07-24 Thread Tim Roberts
card. This is already done to a degree in C. But >i don't want to dive in to the C code right now. > >I prefer Python so may i implement such a feature by Python? Not easily, at least not without a helper DLL in C. And since the app won't be that large, you might as well

Stripping parts of a path

2008-07-26 Thread Tim Cook
ith a different path. Here are some code fragments. logfile=os.getcwd().rstrip('src/oship/atbldr')+'/oship/log/at_build_errors.log' this worked when the path was: /home/tim/ref_impl_python/TRUNK/oship/src/oship/atbldr the code above returns: /home/tim/ref_impl_python/

Re: pixel colour on screen

2008-07-26 Thread Tim Roberts
chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Jun 30, 4:37 am, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >Could anyone help me, I'm a python noob and need some help. im trying >> >to find some code that will, given ascreenco-

Re: Questions on 64 bit versions of Python

2008-07-26 Thread Tim Roberts
t;executable for Windows 64 bit platforms. Is this true? It's true for ALL operating systems, not just Windows. The ia64 (Itanium) and the amd64 are completely separate processors with VERY different instruction sets. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http:/

Re: How to close all python-opened file identifiers?

2008-07-26 Thread Tim Roberts
file identifiers before launching the >editor. If you want to post some code, perhaps we can find something. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stripping parts of a path

2008-07-26 Thread Tim Roberts
Tim Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just ran into an issue with the rstrip method when using it on path >strings. > >When executing a function I have a need to strip off a portion of the >current working directory and add on a path to a log file. Initially >this wo

Re: Stripping parts of a path

2008-07-27 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 04:32 +, Tim Roberts wrote: > This doesn't do what you think it does. The parameter to rstrip is a set: > as long as the last character is in the set 'abcdhiloprs/', it will remove > it and check the next one. All of the characters in "sho

Re: GUID Generation

2008-07-28 Thread Tim Golden
Robert Rawlins wrote: I’ve been looking at the following recipe for generating a GUID http://code.activestate.com/recipes/163604/ however I note that its about 6 years old. Has python since adopted an internal module for GUID generation? Or is this 3^rd part module still the best option? Not

Re: Encoding for Devanagari Script.

2008-07-28 Thread Tim Golden
Atul. wrote: Hi Fredrik and Terry, Well I got this on IDLE I think I have done something wrong. import codecs f = open("C:\Documents and Settings\admin\My Documents\corpus\dainaikAikya collected by sushant.txt","r", "utf_8") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in f =

Re: interpreter vs. compiled

2008-07-28 Thread Tim Roberts
ter would be running on an interpreter, but that >doesn't get the user's statement 'a= b+ 1' into registers-- it gets >'push, push, add, pop' into registers. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the compilation process. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Questions on 64 bit versions of Python (Thank-you!)

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Golden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for everyone's feedback - excellent detail - all my questions have been answered. BTW: Roel was correct that I got confused over the AMD and Intel naming conventions regarding the 64 bit versions of Python for Windows. (I missed that nuance that the Intel build re

Re: Windows Interpreter

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Golden
Victor Subervi wrote: Hi: I would like to make my windows python interpreter work like my linux one. I want to be able to cut and paste multiple lines of code. You can already do this: what are you trying which isn't working? Now I can only paste one line at a time. I do not want it to inde

Re: Windows Interpreter

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Golden
Victor Subervi wrote: def a(): chars = ['\\i0', '\\u0', '\\qc', '\\b0', '\\ql', '\\i', '\\u', '\\b', '\\yz'] rtf_markup = 'viewkind4\uc1\pard\nowidctlpar\qc\i\f0\fs36 Who is like the Beast? Who can wage war against him?\par' for char in chars: c = '(?<=' + char + ')' test = re.se

Overloaded Functions

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Henderson
d be really nice to have a unified interface into the __sign_auth function for the two different use cases. Tim Henderson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Build tool for Python

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Henderson
ote servers and every > thing. > Do we have such a tool for Python projects? > Thank you. You might want to take a look at Paver. http://www.blueskyonmars.com/projects/paver/ Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: DB access without object-relation mapping?

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Henderson
ded. Hi, I believe there are a couple of options but pyscopg, and PyGreSQL seem to be popular. Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Overloaded Functions

2008-07-29 Thread Tim Henderson
Yes i am aware of that but I want the code to be self documenting, so the intent is clear. I actually have an implementation using that style which you suggest. I would like cleaner style, like the one i suggested in my first post. Cheers Tim Henderson -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

Correct Attribute Assignment Methodology?

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Cook
if so; why? if not why not?""" self.c=c Thanks for answering these very basic questions but I am not certain about the correct way. I know that in Python, assignment in the GrandChild class will work but is that correct? --Tim -- *

Re: variable expansion with sqlite

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Golden
marc wyburn wrote: Hi I'm using SQlite and the CSV module and trying to create a class that converts data from CSV file into a SQLite table. My script curently uses functions for everything and I'm trying to improve my class programming. The problem I'm having is with variable expansion. self.

Re: variable expansion with sqlite

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Golden
Gerhard Häring wrote: My code would probably look very similar. Btw you don't need to use list() on an iterable to pass to executemany(). pysqlite's executemany() accepts anything iterable (so generators work fine, too). Thanks for that. My finger-memory told me to do that, possibly because so

Re: Build tool for Python

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Arnold
ned SCons, http://www.scons.org/ I've used it a bit and found it pretty good, out of the box. --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: interpreter vs. compiled

2008-07-30 Thread Tim Roberts
CPython implementation -does- -not-. And again, I never said that it did. CPython is an interpreter. the user's code is never translated into machine language. >My point is, CPython takes more than seven steps. My question is, >does IronPython? So, if compiler B isn't as good

Re: Newbie Python questions

2008-07-31 Thread Tim Roberts
for wxWidgets/ >wxPython, the last question is what do I gain from going QT over wx? >I've seen great applications written with both (on my computer I have >the wxPython Digsby and the pyQT apps "Mnemosyne" and "Anki". All seem >to be solid. Yep. Perso

Re: win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle

2008-07-31 Thread Tim Golden
sterling wrote: I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when using win32com. opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information out of the file. commands like co = ChartObjects(1) works in pythonWin but doesn't work in IDLE. however, on both co = charto

Re: Genital Hair Removal

2008-08-01 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:46 -0700, Paul McGuire wrote: > Be careful though, you should not modify a sequence while iterating > over it. > > -- Paul But if I can't remove each hair from the sequence as it's actually removed then how will I ever know when

Re: Python Written in C?

2008-08-01 Thread Tim Rowe
at the compromises that are appropriate choices for one task are inappropriate for another. Python is a great tool. So is C#. You /can/ do the same job with either, but the smart move is to choose the one that is best adapted to the task in hand. -- Tim Rowe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: interpreter vs. compiled

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:17:59 GMT, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed >the following in comp.lang.python: > >> And again, I never said that it did. CPython is an interpreter. the >> user's code is

Re: interpreter vs. compiled

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
the same; it's just that there's more processing going on before jumping to "main". -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Swap memory in Python ? - three questions

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
08, 17:16:53) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.maxint 9223372036854775807 >>> -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie Python questions

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
ter coz >it has a better documentation. Holy moly, did you send this from your cell phone? -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: current week / weeks in year - best practice

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
ll week, so that a partial Jan 1 week is actually part of the previous year. And you get the whole "does the week start on Sunday or Monday" debate as well. You need to make sure that the datetime functions match your business rules. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boek

Re: base-96

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
er 2 >characters more; the space (code 32), and one not-printable char >(which doesn't create any problem) by last. This leaves some tricky issues. How will you denote the end of a base 96 sequence? If every printable character can be part of the ciphertext, what can you use as an end ma

Re: base-96

2008-08-02 Thread Tim Roberts
, 5 bytes becomes 6. So, you would reduce the conversion penalty from 1.33 down to 1.17. It's not hard to write modules to translate from binary to Base96 and back again, and doing so would be a great exercise to explore the issues in this kind of encoding. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAI

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