Re: [Tutor] How to use function from specific module and then switch to other module

2008-11-07 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
again. John Ertl Meteorologist FNMOC 7 Grace Hopper Ave. Monterey, CA 93943 (831) 656-5704 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO From: Kent Johnson Sent: Thu 11/6/2008 7:36 PM To: Ertl, John C CIV 63134 Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] How to use function from

[Tutor] How to use function from specific module and then switch to other module

2008-11-06 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO   I have a program that collects weather data from weather models.  I originally had a module that contained a bunch of function that I used.  So I just added it to the init of the class I was using and inherited the functions.  That worked great but

[Tutor] threading not working how about fork?

2008-10-22 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO Thanks for the help and I am looking into the pyprocessing but threading is causing too many headaches (I may have to rewrite things). Lets say I have something as simple as below: def takeTime(a): print "Started %s" % a time.sleep(10)

[Tutor] Python 2.4 threading

2008-10-21 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO All, I have a program that basically loops through two loops and I wanted to speedup the stuff inside the second loop so I thought threading would be a good idea but I am having a hard time getting it to work. All of the examples I have seen that

[Tutor] how to return an error from a CGI

2008-05-12 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveat (s): FOUO All, I have been writing simple cgi scripts for a long time but have never worried about the error codes. Now I have been asked to return a specific error and I have no idea how to do this. I do not even know if I should be returning an HTTP or

Re: [Tutor] Best way to POST XML to CGI

2007-06-07 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 9:30 AM To: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Best way to POST XML to CGI "Ertl, John C CIV 63134" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I have a Python program that makes images of data > and I want to be able to make these via a web interface. Fair enough

[Tutor] Best way to POST XML to CGI

2007-06-07 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
All, I have a Python program that makes images of data and I want to be able to make these via a web interface. I want to keep it simple so I thought I would send an XML file to a cgi program (XML is what I am supposed to use). I have the parsing of the XML all figured out but the way I am se

[Tutor] problem with mmap

2007-05-30 Thread Ertl, John C CIV 63134
All, I am trying to work an example that I found at http://bitworking.org/news/132/REST-Tips-URI-space-is-infinite When I try the code below I get an error and I am not able to figure it out. Thanks for any and all help. I have two png and a text file (sortzip.txt) in the same dir as this

Re: [Tutor] trouble with re

2006-05-08 Thread Ertl, John
@python.org Subject:Re: [Tutor] trouble with re Ertl, John wrote: > I have a file with 10,000 + lines and it has a coma delimited string on each > line. > > The file should look like: > > DFRE,ship name,1234567 > FGDE,ship 2, > ,sdfsf > > The ,sdfsf line is bad

[Tutor] trouble with re

2006-05-08 Thread Ertl, John
I have a file with 10,000 + lines and it has a coma delimited string on each line. The file should look like: DFRE,ship name,1234567 FGDE,ship 2, ,sdfsf The ,sdfsf line is bad data Some of the lines are messed up...I want to find all lines that do not end in a comma or seven digits and do som

Re: [Tutor] Halting execution

2006-05-03 Thread Ertl, John
rg Subject:Re: [Tutor] Halting execution It would be similar to Perl's die() commmand. But no, in Python the argument is the error status of your script. You'd have to do something like def exitnow(arg): print arg #maybe sys has not been imported import sys sys

Re: [Tutor] Halting execution

2006-05-03 Thread Ertl, John
Matthew, Not sure if ipython is different but have you tried sys.exit("stoping now") You could also put in a flag to turn the printing on and off so it wont print it out when you are testing. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mat

Re: [Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
odeAmount) print "Your memory usage is %s KB and your inode usage is %s" % (myUse.memTotal,myUse.inodeTotal) print "Your memory limit is %s KB and your inode limit is %s" % (myUse.memLimit, myUse.inodeLimit) if myUse.memLimit < myUse.memTotal or myUse.inodeLimit < m

Re: [Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
Cc: tutor@python.org Subject:Re: [Tutor] question about run time Ertl, John wrote: > Kent, > > The files are very small (a few hundred lines). Maybe it is a network > issue? But then why is it always slow the first time in the morning? I > don't know network st

Re: [Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:06 PM To: Ertl, John Cc: tutor@python.org Subject:Re: [Tutor] question about run time Ertl, John wrote: > I have been using python for sometime...and occasionally I noticed > significant delay before the code would run but unitl now

[Tutor] question about run time

2006-05-02 Thread Ertl, John
I have been using python for sometime...and occasionally I noticed significant delay before the code would run but unitl now I have been able to write it off to other things. Now I have a short script that I wrote to check some files and print out a few lines. I have noticed that usually the fir

Re: [Tutor] how to extract number of files from directory

2005-10-12 Thread Ertl, John
Marc, You can do most system type stuff in Python and it makes it much easier. import glob jpgList = glob.glob("*.jpg") # the glob allows you to use wild cards in the search jpgCount = len(jpgList) This gives you a list of all files that end in .jpg. You can then do a len(jpgList) to get the nu

Re: [Tutor] launching and monitor from make

2005-10-12 Thread Ertl, John
, 2005 10:01 AM To: Ertl, John; tutor@python.org Subject:Re: [Tutor] launching and monitor from make > The CM team here would like to have the script run each week as part of > the > automated rebuilds. The suggestion was to make the execution of the > scritp > par

Re: [Tutor] launching and monitor from make

2005-10-12 Thread Ertl, John
: Ertl, John Subject:Re: [Tutor] launching and monitor from make Hi John Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I have a very simple python program that reads one file and overwrites > anouther text file. This workes great from the command line and it has > error checking b

[Tutor] launching and monitor from make

2005-10-12 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have a very simple python program that reads one file and overwrites anouther text file. This workes great from the command line and it has error checking but just outputs messages and the like to the screen. The CM team here would like to have the script run each week as part of the auto

Re: [Tutor] Finding difference in two .gif

2005-09-30 Thread Ertl, John
All, Well I found the answer...getbox() gave me the bounding box and then I could just plot that portion of the two images. Python 2.4, PIL 1.1.5 The simple code I have tried: import Image import ImageChops file1 = Image.open("/home/PT04_RH.2005072300.gif") file2 = Image.open("/home/PT04_RH.

[Tutor] Finding difference in two .gif

2005-09-30 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have two gif images that should be exactly the same...one static and the other recreated from the same data. For months this has been working great but yesterday the "new" image that I made was slightly different. The image size is 4 bytes different. When I look at the image side by sid

Re: [Tutor] Generate 8 digit random number

2005-08-26 Thread Ertl, John
Sorry for that you will have to change the %09 to a %08 to get 8 digits. I got a bit to fixated on the John Ertl -Original Message- From: Ertl, John Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:23 PM To: Alberto Troiano; tutor@python.org Subject:RE: [Tutor] Generate 8

Re: [Tutor] Generate 8 digit random number

2005-08-26 Thread Ertl, John
Alberto If you don't mind having leading 0 then you could just do the random like you did then format it to 9 digits. You could give this a try num = random.randrange(,) num8 = "%09i" % num John Ertl -Original Message- From: Byron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

[Tutor] would pickle or cpickle help?

2005-06-30 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have a text file that contains several thousand lines of space delimited text that contain a ship ID and a ship name. This file is updated every few months. I have another file that contains the ship ID and some other info but not the ship name. I have to append the ship name to the end

Re: [Tutor] Just a Python formatting question

2005-06-08 Thread Ertl, John
Kristiano, It is sometimes hard to tell the indentions in an email but it looks like your last line print "Just right" has a space in front of it. Python does not know what logical block the indented part belongs to. John Ertl -Original Message- From: Kristiano Ang [mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: [Tutor] read() question

2005-05-11 Thread Ertl, John
John, The 'r' is the mode and is used to indicate you are reading the file. You could also use 'w' for only writing. See the attached link for more. http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node9.html#SECTION0092 0 John -Original Message- From: John Carmona [mailto:[EMA

RE: [Tutor] using TK to view an image and then close the window

2005-04-26 Thread Ertl, John
ljVersion/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2075, in _create return getint(self.tk.call( _tkinter.TclError: image "pyimage2" doesn't exist -Original Message- From: Michael Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 01:58 To: Ertl, John Sub

[Tutor] RE: using TK to view an image and then close the window

2005-04-25 Thread Ertl, John
I forgot to mention that I am running on a Linux system if that makes any difference for the TK part. Thanks, John Ertl -Original Message- From: Ertl, John Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 10:24 To: tutor@python.org Subject: using TK to view an image and then close the window All, I

[Tutor] using TK to view an image and then close the window

2005-04-25 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have been struggling with being able to view an image and most things have not worked for one reason or another so I am trying to fall back on a way I used to do it in PERL. Use TK to show the image. I do not know TKInter but I have two scripts one that gets a list of images and anouther

RE: [Tutor] trouble setting the environment

2005-04-21 Thread Ertl, John
t manually). Thanks, John Ertl -Original Message- From: Kent Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 13:49 Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] trouble setting the environment Ertl, John wrote: > Kent, > > Good idea except that the environment that need

RE: [Tutor] trouble setting the environment

2005-04-21 Thread Ertl, John
, April 21, 2005 13:20 Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] trouble setting the environment Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I have program and init I want to "source" a .ksh file to set some > environment variables and then use those variables in my program. > > Is this

[Tutor] trouble setting the environment

2005-04-21 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have program and init I want to "source" a .ksh file to set some environment variables and then use those variables in my program. Is this possible? I vaguely remember something about the system env and the interpreters env being separate after the interpreter starts up. For instance if I

RE: FW: [Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET

2005-04-19 Thread Ertl, John
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:33 Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: FW: [Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I have figured out a bit more. I can get the binary values from the service > but I think they come back as a single string. How do

FW: [Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET

2005-04-19 Thread Ertl, John
p() print binvalues -Original Message- From: Kent Johnson Cc: tutor@python.org Sent: 4/18/05 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I am trying to get some binary data from a web service. None of the tech > guys are around so I am hoping you

RE: [Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET

2005-04-18 Thread Ertl, John
13:10 Cc: tutor@python.org Subject: Re: [Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I am trying to get some binary data from a web service. None of the tech > guys are around so I am hoping you might be able to shed some light on what > might be happening. I wou

[Tutor] Trying to d0 HTTP GET

2005-04-18 Thread Ertl, John
All, I am trying to get some binary data from a web service. None of the tech guys are around so I am hoping you might be able to shed some light on what might be happening. Here is part of the email that explained what I needed to do. - clip --- If you can do an http "get" from Python, yo

RE: [Tutor] how to display an image using python

2005-04-14 Thread Ertl, John
Danny, Pygame.org...I would not have thought to look there. In my google it did not pop up. I will definitely take a look and thanks for the example. John Ertl -Original Message- From: Danny Yoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 12:25 To: Ertl, John Cc: Tutor

[Tutor] how to display an image using python

2005-04-14 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have asked this question before, but one more time most have commented about manipulation but displaying the image has become the big issue. I want to display png and gif images on a Linux machine using python. I am using PyNGL to make the images and PIL to manipulate them but I cannot lo

[Tutor] viewing gif png ?

2005-04-07 Thread Ertl, John
I need to manipulate and view gif and png images. I have PIL installed so I can do the manipulation but PIL does not let me view the images, because I do not have xv. What is the recommended python module for viewing gif and png? Thanks for the recommendation. John Ertl __

RE: [Tutor] re question

2005-03-28 Thread Ertl, John
gt;>> s='850hPa±' >> >>> s >> '850hPa\xb1' >> >>> import re >> >>> re.sub('\xb1', '*', s) >> '850hPa*' >> >>> import sys >> >>> sys.stdout.encoding >> &#

[Tutor] re question

2005-03-24 Thread Ertl, John
All I have a string that has a bunch of numbers with the units attached to them. I want to strip off the units. I am using a regular expression and sub to do this. This works great for almost all of the cases. These are the type of lines: SigWind: 857hPa, , 21.0C, 20.1C, 210 @ 9

[Tutor] Image manipulation

2005-03-16 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have an image with a bunch of white space that I need to crop. I would like to automate the process using python and I was wondering what is the best module for image manipulation? I have seen PIL and Python magic what is recommended? John Ertl _

RE: [Tutor] Python and a web image map

2005-02-28 Thread Ertl, John
indow excluding scrolbars etc. Shouldn't be too hard to create a window that matches the size of your map, and convert window co-ords into image co-ords. Good luck with that, though, Javascript is a funny beast, but there's some good tutorials out there. Regards, Liam Clarke On Mon, 28

[Tutor] Python and a web image map

2005-02-28 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have been doing Python for a bit now but I am trying to make a clickable map of the world on a web page that gives me the latitude and longitude of a location selected. I have done little with HTML beyond forms and have done no Java script. Is this a problem Python can solve or is this

RE: [Tutor] What is in the traceback object

2005-02-08 Thread Ertl, John
Danny, That is great...every time I have a problem someone has already solved it...the other problem is finding that solution...Thanks again. John Ertl -Original Message- From: Danny Yoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:39 To: Ertl, John Cc: 'tutor@pytho

[Tutor] What is in the traceback object

2005-02-08 Thread Ertl, John
I have a bit of code that uses a module and I am trying to get more info on the error.   I am using this bit of code:       try:     rhfill    = Ngl.contour(wks,rhisobar,rh_res)     except:     execType,value,tracebak = sys.exc_info()[:3]     print execType     prin

RE: [Tutor] Diffing two files.

2005-01-31 Thread Ertl, John
are the two files: lines1 = getCommonPart(file1) lines2 = getCommonPart(file2) if lines1 != lines2: # Do what you need to do in case of a mismatch... # If you want details of the differences then you might want to use difflib here Kent Ertl, John wrote: > Kent > > What I need to do is

RE: [Tutor] Diffing two files.

2005-01-28 Thread Ertl, John
http://docs.python.org/lib/sequencematcher-examples.html In your case the sequences will be lists of lines rather than strings (which are sequences of characters) Kent Ertl, John wrote: > All, > > I have two text files that should contain a section of text that is the > same. Luckily th

[Tutor] Diffing two files.

2005-01-28 Thread Ertl, John
All, I have two text files that should contain a section of text that is the same. Luckily the section of text has a defined beginning and end. It looks like the most straightforward thing would be to read the targeted text from each file (only 50 lines or so) into lists and then compare the lis

RE: [Tutor] Popen and sending output to a file

2005-01-19 Thread Ertl, John
That is too easy. I was looking at the examples of how to replace the old popen and I just did not get it but the page you sent is great. John -Original Message- From: Danny Yoo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:34 To: Ertl, John Cc: tutor@python.org

[Tutor] Popen and sending output to a file

2005-01-19 Thread Ertl, John
I am using the subprocess.Popen from 2.4. I can launch a job from python and the output from the job goes to the screen but now I would like to have the output go to a file. I could do the crude subprocess.Popen("dtg | cat > job.out", shell=True) But I would think there is a better way built i

RE: [Tutor] Popen? or something else

2004-12-22 Thread Ertl, John
Hugo, That looks like it will work great. Thanks, John -Original Message- From: Hugo González Monteverde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ertl, John Subject: Re: [Tutor] Popen? or something else You may use the 'com

[Tutor] Is there a "better" way to do this?

2004-12-22 Thread Ertl, John
I am trying to do the usual thing of asking for an input and then checking it to see if it is valid. If the entry is not valid then ask again until you get the correct answer. I have come up with this class. I am trying to make a transition from procedural programming to object oriented. Is th

RE: [Tutor] Popen? or something else

2004-12-22 Thread Ertl, John
: [Tutor] Popen? or something else Rumor has it that Ertl, John may have mentioned these words: >All, > >I hate to ask this but I have just installed 2.4 and I need to get some info >from a subprocess (I think that is correct term). > >At the Linux command line if I input dtg I

[Tutor] Popen? or something else

2004-12-22 Thread Ertl, John
All, I hate to ask this but I have just installed 2.4 and I need to get some info from a subprocess (I think that is correct term). At the Linux command line if I input dtg I get back a string representing a date time group. How do I do this in Python? I would think Popen but I just don't see i

RE: [Tutor] removedirs ?

2004-12-16 Thread Ertl, John
...but the straight forward path might be the best. Thanks, John Ertl -Original Message- From: Jason Child [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 12:36 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] removedirs ? Ertl, John wrote: >I am trying to remove a directory t

[Tutor] removedirs ?

2004-12-16 Thread Ertl, John
I am trying to remove a directory that has other directories and files in it. I thought removedirs was supposed to do a recursive remove of files and directories. When I try it I get >>> os.removedirs("DAF") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in -toplevel- os.removedirs(

RE: [Tutor] turning a number into a formated string

2004-12-15 Thread Ertl, John
Very elegant, It makes me feel like "I should have thought of that". Thanks for the help and the reminder to think of the simplistic approach. John -Original Message- From: Tim Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:15 To: Ertl, John Cc:

[Tutor] turning a number into a formated string

2004-12-15 Thread Ertl, John
I need to take a number and turn it into a formatted string. The final output needs to look like when the X is the integer part padded on the left and Y is the decimal part padded on the right. I figured I could split the number at "." and then use zfill or something like this (LEVEL

RE: [Tutor] maximum value in a Numeric array

2004-12-10 Thread Ertl, John
11:26 To: Ertl, John Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Tutor] maximum value in a Numeric array On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Ertl, John wrote: > I am trying to get the maximum value in a 2-D array. I can use max but > it returns the 1-D array that the max value is in and I then I need to > do

[Tutor] maximum value in a Numeric array

2004-12-10 Thread Ertl, John
All, I am trying to get the maximum value in a 2-D array. I can use max but it returns the 1-D array that the max value is in and I then I need to do max again on that array to get the single max value. There has to be a more straightforward way...I have just not found it. >>> b = array([[1,2],