Re: [Tutor] os.path.exists(path) returns false when the path actually exists!

2007-08-02 Thread Kyle Brooks
Hi. > Granted, all of these are just visual sugar and are completely worthless. > But they have provided Microsoft with much money because more useless people > can use computers. It is because these people do not wish to learn, do not > have the capacity, or just plain would rather pay through th

Re: [Tutor] gendata.py

2007-08-02 Thread Kyle Brooks
Hi. If you think time.ctime is Unix specific, it is not. - Kyle On 8/2/07, Eric Brunson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is it that you think makes it Unix specific? > > Que Prime wrote: > > > > This script appears to be written for Unix systems. Is there a way to > > get it to work for Pyth

Re: [Tutor] operator * of the list and tuple

2007-08-02 Thread Kyle Brooks
Hi. The explanation on that page may be a bit confusing, so I will add to it. If you think of L * n as something similiar to doing a shallow copy of the list L n times, then it makes some sense: >>> a = [] >>> L = [[]] >>> for i in xrange(5): ... a.append(L[:][0]) has the same (or similia

Re: [Tutor] Textual Captchas: Would like to show that bots can crack a simple text captcha

2007-08-01 Thread Kyle Brooks
Hi. I am not a spammer! I just want to demonstrate something :-) Thanks for the resources! You guys are great :-) - Kyle On 8/1/07, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kyle Brooks wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Please look up captcha... I did not mean capture. > &g

Re: [Tutor] Textual Captchas: Would like to show that bots can crack a simple text captcha

2007-08-01 Thread Kyle Brooks
Hi. Please look up captcha... I did not mean capture. Your response is hilarious, frankly, but not appropriate for this list :-) - Kyle Brooks On 8/1/07, Bob Gailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kyle Brooks wrote: > > Hi. > > > > My name is Kyle Brooks, and I hereby

[Tutor] Textual Captchas: Would like to show that bots can crack a simple text captcha

2007-08-01 Thread Kyle Brooks
Hi. My name is Kyle Brooks, and I hereby introduce myself with this post. I have seen a lot of text captchas. A text captcha is the logical opposite of a image captcha. That is, among other qualities: image captchas are inaccessible, while text captchas are, and image captchas cannot be easily