[Tutor] How to perform variable assignment and

2009-10-02 Thread Didar Hossain
Hi, I am currently learning Python and I was wondering is there a shorter way to do the following - import os homedir = os.environ.get('HOME') if homedir: print "My home directory is %s" % homedir I do this in Perl - my $home; if ($home = $ENV{'HOME'}) { print "My home directory is $hom

Re: [Tutor] How to perform variable assignment and

2009-10-03 Thread Didar Hossain
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Rich Lovely wrote: > 2009/10/3 wesley chun : >> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Oxymoron wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Didar Hossain >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> homedir

[Tutor] Checking for Python version

2009-10-06 Thread Didar Hossain
Hi, I am using the following code to check for the Python version - import os t = os.sys.version_info[0:2] if (t[0] + t[1]) < 6: os.sys.exit("Need at least Python 2.4") del t This snippet is put at the beginning of the single script file before the rest of the code. I need to check for the

Re: [Tutor] Checking for Python version

2009-10-07 Thread Didar Hossain
I like Kent's "try" method to explicitly look for the "staticmethod" call - it is Pythony :-) Todd's graceful handling idea is a good one - will keep that for future use. Christian's input about my kludge failing with the 3.x series is a good catch, I didn't think about that. Thanks to all of yo

[Tutor] [OT] Secure coding guidelines

2009-10-10 Thread Didar Hossain
Hi, This is a little off-topic, but, I though I might put this question in. Since I am learning Python, I was wondering if there are any good references on secure coding practices. Books, guides or even any howtos would suffice. Security seems to be almost always an after-thought rather than bei

Re: [Tutor] extracting informations (images and text) from a PDF andcreating a database from it

2009-12-29 Thread Didar Hossain
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Shashwat Anand wrote: > I used PDFMiner and I was pretty satisfied with the text portions. I > retrieved all the text and was able to manipulate it according to my wish. > However I failed on Image part. So Technically my question reduces to 'If > thereĀ  a PDF docu