Re: [Tutor] understanding pydoc try

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Janßen
On 30 August 2012 15:30, John Maclean wrote: > What does the first line from `pydoc try` actually mean? This does not > look like the syntax that one is supposed to use. > > try_stmt ::= try1_stmt | try2_stmt > looks like part of the python language reference. It goes a little further and expla

Re: [Tutor] where is my MySQL database

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Janßen
On 25 July 2012 00:51, Zhenzhen wrote: > hi, I'm working on setting up my database for django by editing the > following file: > mysite/settings.py > > for the field "name", I am suppose to put down the full path of my mySQL > database. > for mysql, it needs to be the database name, specified in

Re: [Tutor] measuring the start up time of an event-driven program

2012-07-24 Thread Michael Janßen
On 24 July 2012 11:18, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > I would like to test how long it takes for two versions of the same > program to start up and be ready to receive commands. The program is SPSS > version-very-old vs. SPSS version-latest. > > Normally I'd just fire the program up in a subprocess a