[Tutor] advice on how to start with urllib

2005-10-22 Thread nephish
hey there gents, i am looking for a good place to start learning how to read a web page with python and pull out bits of information for an app i am doing for work. i have googled and looked at the docs. i looked at urllib and httplib so i think this a place to kinda start. Does anyone know

Re: [Tutor] Boolean math question

2005-10-22 Thread Danny Yoo
> > Anyone know of a good explanation of either how to perform boolean > > math in Python? What I am trying to do is AND two numbers together: > > > > e = 51 AND 15 > > > > 00110011 > > > > > > 0011 > > Use '&' rather than "AND": > > >>> e = 51 & 15 > >>> e > 3 For refe

Re: [Tutor] Boolean math question

2005-10-22 Thread Terry Carroll
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Joe Bennett wrote: > Anyone know of a good explanation of either how to perform boolean math > in Python? What I am trying to do is AND two numbers together: > > e = 51 AND 15 > > 00110011 > > > 0011 Use '&' rather than "AND": >>> e = 51 & 15 >>

Re: [Tutor] index and find

2005-10-22 Thread Terry Carroll
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Shi Mu wrote: > what is the difference between index and find in the module of string? > for both "find" and "index", I got the position of the letter. index raises a ValueError if the string isn't found: >>> s = "spam" >>> s.find('m') 3 >>> s.index('m') 3 >>> s.find('z') -1

[Tutor] Boolean math question

2005-10-22 Thread Joe Bennett
Anyone know of a good explanation of either how to perform boolean math in Python? What I am trying to do is AND two numbers together: e = 51 AND 15 00110011 0011 In this case the result should be e = 3... Ideas? -Joe _

[Tutor] index and find

2005-10-22 Thread Shi Mu
what is the difference between index and find in the module of string? for both "find" and "index", I got the position of the letter. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Storing Dictionaries Externally

2005-10-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Daniel Watkins wrote: > Currently, I'm writing a little project which needs to store a > dictionary in an external file (so it can be accessed by another > program). However, no matter how much I try, I cannot get Python to > import the dictionary from the file properly. However, I know the > probl

[Tutor] Storing Dictionaries Externally

2005-10-22 Thread Daniel Watkins
Currently, I'm writing a little project which needs to store a dictionary in an external file (so it can be accessed by another program). However, no matter how much I try, I cannot get Python to import the dictionary from the file properly. However, I know the problem. Whatever format I put the da

Re: [Tutor] threading issues

2005-10-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Chris Hallman wrote: > > I hacked together my first script to learn threading. I'm seeing some > weird output. > > This script will PING approximately 1,000 routers. I added a few print > commands for debugging so I can see if it runs faster than a single > threaded script. It blazes through t

Re: [Tutor] removal

2005-10-22 Thread Adam
Do it yourselfOn 23/10/05, Patrick Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: please remove me from your tutor mailing list.Cheers--Patrick J. Nagle_Pocket Rocket FX___Tutor maillist  -   Tutor@python.orghttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor __

[Tutor] removal

2005-10-22 Thread Patrick Nagle
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[Tutor] threading issues

2005-10-22 Thread Chris Hallman
I hacked together my first script to learn threading. I'm seeing some weird output. This script will PING approximately 1,000 routers. I added a few print commands for debugging so I can see if it runs faster than a single threaded script. It blazes through the routers, however I'm seeing multip

Re: [Tutor] class and methods/functions

2005-10-22 Thread w chun
On 10/22/05, Jacob S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> def nameCheck(self, value): > >> > import re > >> > tempREG = re.match('.*:.*',value) > >> > return str(tempREG) != 'None' > > This could be written better. > > def nameCheck(self, value): > tempREG = re.match('.*:.

Re: [Tutor] class and methods/functions

2005-10-22 Thread Jacob S.
>> def nameCheck(self, value): >> > import re >> > tempREG = re.match('.*:.*',value) >> > return str(tempREG) != 'None' >> >> Still a syntax error here! >> > Code is working as I thought it would. What syntax error do I have? This could be written better. def nameCheck(s

Re: [Tutor] : Threads?

2005-10-22 Thread Orri Ganel
I knew what he meant, but since most albums have around 12 tracks, 4 tracks per thread gives you 3 threads. In any case, thanks for the catch on the loop. I'll let you know if it makes a difference.On 10/22/05, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alan means to use two or three threads *total*.O

Re: [Tutor] A Really Quick Question

2005-10-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Steve Haley wrote: > I am running Python 2.1 which ships with ArcView 9.1. I am going > through the 2.1 tutorial and came across readlines(). > > The tutorial seems to be telling me that ‘f.readlines(2) should read out > 2 bytes plus what is needed to complete the current line. Instead, it >

Re: [Tutor] A Really Quick Question

2005-10-22 Thread Todd Maynard
Hi Steve, Here is the python documentation. Hopefully it is a *little* clearer http://docs.python.org/lib/bltin-file-objects.html *** readlines *** readlines( [sizehint]) Read until EOF using readline() and return a list containing the lines thus read. If the optional sizehint argument

Re: [Tutor] : Threads?

2005-10-22 Thread R. Alan Monroe
> I wanted to find out whether os.system() calls block other threads. > It seems that they don't. (That's a good thing, it means it should > work for you!) Here is a program to test this: For threads that run longer than a few seconds, you can visibly verify this with Sysinterals Process Explorer

[Tutor] A Really Quick Question

2005-10-22 Thread Steve Haley
Folks,   I am running Python 2.1 which ships with ArcView 9.1.  I am going through the 2.1 tutorial and came across readlines().  Simply put it doesn’t seem to be behaving as the tutorial describes.  Specifically, I created a small text file as shown below:   f=open("c:/python21/sfh_mod

Re: [Tutor] : Threads?

2005-10-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Orri Ganel wrote: > I'll try doing 3 or 4 tracks per thread, then. Thanks for the advice. > > > If you keep the thread count down to two or three you might get > a noticable improvement but one thread per track, unless you have > a lot of separate hard disk spindles to distribute the

Re: [Tutor] is mxDateTime recommended?

2005-10-22 Thread Kent Johnson
Lance E Sloan wrote: > --On Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:44 PM -0400 Kent Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Since 2.3 Python includes a datetime module which has some facility for >> date calculations. I think mxDateTime is more sophisticated but if your >> needs are simple take a look at