[Tutor] SOLVED: [ FTP question (slightly OT)]

2008-08-19 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Just found the solution, I didn't realize that ftplib has 'passive mode' as the standard - so I ended up with never actually trying to use 'active mode' Thanks nonetheless :) Am Dienstag, den 19.08.2008, 15:16 +0200 schrieb Paul Schewietzek: > Hello everyone, &

[Tutor] FTP question (slightly OT)

2008-08-19 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Hello everyone, I put together the following, most of it is from different howtos on the web. #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- def gettext(ftp, filename, outfile=None): if outfile is None: outfile = sys.stdout ftp.retrlines("RETR %s" % filename, la

Re: [Tutor] Handling MySQLdb exceptions

2007-12-20 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Kent Johnson schrieb: > A more robust solution would be to read the file with the csv module and > use cursor.execute() with a proper parameter list. This lets the csv and > database modules correctly (un)escape the data values. > > Kent > WOW thanks! I never thought about that there might be

Re: [Tutor] Handling MySQLdb exceptions

2007-12-20 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Joshua Simpson schrieb: > On Dec 19, 2007 10:14 AM, Paul Schewietzek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Is there any way to handle this exception? As you can see, I already > tried it with _mysql_exceptions.OperationalError (the

[Tutor] Handling MySQLdb exceptions

2007-12-19 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Hi there! I'm writing a script that inserts data from a .csv file into a MySQL-Database. Actually, it works fine (the data make it into the database correctly), however everytime it runs it raises an exception coming from the MySQLdb-module. Here's the code: -

Re: [Tutor] Beat me over the head with it

2007-12-11 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Theyain schrieb: > I'm not sure if this is really the place to do this, but I will ask anyways. > > Hello everyone, names Theyain. I want to learn Python. But I am one of > those people who needs some one to "Beat me over the head" to actually > learn something. I can't get myself to actually