Re: [Tutor] Stopping function after given time

2005-10-10 Thread Oliver Maunder
>Simple question: Is it possible to stop a running function after certain>predefined time? >>I would like to convert this routine to Python using pycurl module, or maybe>even standard urllib.urlretrieve. If you use urllib.urlretrieve, you can pass in a callback function that gets called after eve

Re: [Tutor] Console output

2005-10-05 Thread Oliver Maunder
Just what I needed - thanks everyone. I never realised '\r' was actually good for something other than Windows line breaks! Olly ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

[Tutor] Console output

2005-10-05 Thread Oliver Maunder
Does anyone know how I can update a line of console output without creating a new line? I'm not explaning this too well, so here's an example. When you download a file with wget, the console display looks like this: 14% [===>    ] 344,192  

Re: [Tutor] Beautiful soup

2005-10-05 Thread Oliver Maunder
On 10/4/05, Andrew P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, Paul is probably right.  I thought urllib2 opened local files in the absence of an identifier like "http://".  Bad assumption on my part.  I remembered that behavior from somewhere else, maybe urllib. The following function could be useful here

Re: [Tutor] Beautiful soup

2005-10-04 Thread Oliver Maunder
On 10/4/05, Andrew P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, Paul is probably right.  I thought urllib2 opened local files in the absence of an identifier like "http://".  Bad assumption on my part.  I remembered that behavior from somewhere else, maybe urllib. The following function could be useful here

Re: [Tutor] Finding libraries

2005-10-03 Thread Oliver Maunder
On 10/3/05, Liam Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'd recommend http://www.python.org/pypi andhttp://www.vex.net/parnassus/ Thanks for those - they're both full of possibilities. Olly ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: [Tutor] Finding libraries

2005-10-03 Thread Oliver Maunder
On 10/3/05, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should be straightforward, but I don't> want to do it only to find there's a module with a> get_file_from_web(url, destination, progress_callback) function in it.That is spelled urllib.urlretrieve (url, destination, progress_callback) :-) Proves

[Tutor] Finding libraries

2005-10-03 Thread Oliver Maunder
Hi all I'm pretty new to Python - I've worked through Dive Into Python, but not done a lot else. One thing I have realised is that pretty much whatever you want to do in Python, someone else has already done it and stuck it in a library. My question is, how do you find these libraries. Here's an

Re: [Tutor] python strings?

2005-09-08 Thread Oliver Maunder
On 08/09/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: below is my program. what i would like to do is to get the last line toprint the number of years that the user enters and also the principal There are a couple (at least!) of ways to get the values into the string that you print. The first

Re: [Tutor] Program to lock folders under win32

2005-09-04 Thread Oliver Maunder
On 04/09/05, Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I want to make a program to lock folders (so the user can only access>>them if he knows the password) under win32, the only problem is that I>>have no idea how to start or what to do. Do you guys have any ideas of >>how to do it? There's a program ca