Re: [Tutor] passwords in scripts

2006-01-24 Thread Alan Gauld
> an SSH implementation for them exists, but it is not > worth my while trying to find out, because I will not > be allowed to install anything on them (or even > suggest it). So I access them using telnetlib: Hmm, they won;t lket you install a secure access tool but are happy to let you in with

Re: [Tutor] Searching for email id in MySQL giving wrong results

2006-01-24 Thread Kent Johnson
John Joseph wrote: > Hi >Thanks to Allan,Danny,Pujo >I did my simple python script for MySQL , the > scripts add the data , and search for the data and > display > I have problem in searching email id ,ie > If search for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] , I will not get any > r

[Tutor] Python on Fedora

2006-01-24 Thread Matt Williams
FC4 (the latest finished one) has python 2.4.1 as part of the distro (I think RedHat actually use python for some of their scripts). Just pull up a terminal and type 'python' and you should get the prompt... If you _are_ running FC4 and have more probs, feel free to drop me a line. at matt at mwi

Re: [Tutor] passwords in scripts

2006-01-24 Thread Ivan Furone
Hi Ivan I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. Surely if the file is compiled it can just run (and will only need to be RE-compiled when I have to change the code (such as when one of the servers has their password changed). I would never need to de-compile, because I'll just keep a c

Re: [Tutor] Why doesn't this work?

2006-01-24 Thread w chun
on a barely related note, sets (mutable [set] and immutable [frozenset]) were added to Python beginning in version 2.3... so don't work too hard on your class! you may want to try something more interesting like: write a class which let's you keep track of time and does base 60 (sexagesimal / he

Re: [Tutor] passwords in scripts

2006-01-24 Thread Danny Yoo
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Ivan Furone wrote: > I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here. Surely if the file > is compiled it can just run (and will only need to be RE-compiled when I > have to change the code (such as when one of the servers has their > password changed). Hi Ivan, But the

[Tutor] More Doubt with classes

2006-01-24 Thread Carroll, Barry
Greetings: I took Edgar's script and added some more people. Here is the script as I ran it. class Person: '''Represents a person.''' population = 0 def __init__(self, name): '''Initializes the person's data.''' self.name =

Re: [Tutor] passwords in scripts

2006-01-24 Thread Ben Vinger
--- Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > command line arguments? > > $ startapp -d mydb -l user/password & > > That way they are > 1) kept secret(especially if you turn shell history > off ;-) and > 2) can be changed every time you restart the server > app and > 3) you can have production a

Re: [Tutor] passwords in scripts

2006-01-24 Thread Ben Vinger
Compiling is certainly helpful in my case, and I did not realise how simple it was until you explained it. I estimate that most of our MCSEs will not know about the strings command or attempt to look inside something like test.pyc for a password. As for users, I'll be amazed if they tried it. An

Re: [Tutor] passwords in scripts

2006-01-24 Thread Alan Gauld
> Compiling is certainly helpful in my case, and I did > not realise how simple it was until you explained it. Remember that only *imported* modules are compiled. Your main program will not be compiled. You can fix that by having your main program look like this: ### dummy mainprog.py

Re: [Tutor] Linux Python install?

2006-01-24 Thread CPIM Ronin
Thanks for the responses gentalmen and apologies! It seems that Python IS included in Fedora but is not explicitly seen (as it is in Windows XP) as a desktop icon. It can be accessed by from the terminal by simply typing Python. RC From: Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CPIM Ronin <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Tutor] More Doubt with classes

2006-01-24 Thread Terry Carroll
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, my long-lost cousin Barry wrote: > class Person: ... > def __del__(self): > '''I am dying.''' > print '%s says bye.' % self.name > Person.population -= 1 > > if Person.population == 0: > print 'I am the last one.' > e

[Tutor] : unexpected behavior with assignment in __init__

2006-01-24 Thread Orri Ganel
Hello all,     I was just messing around with a suggestion w chun (wescpy at gmail dot com) gave (to make a class that handles time, ie: >>> import myTime >>> c = myTime.myTime(10,30) >>> print c 10:30 >>> d = myTime.myTime(8,45) >>> print c + d 19:15 etc), and I was trying to make it like th