Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> Martin Walsh wrote:
>> And by the way, the '&' has special meaning
>> to the webbrowser.get method -- it determines whether a
>> BackgroundBrowser or GenericBrowser object is returned.
>
> LOL, another demerit to documentation.
Agreed. But it would be more constructive to o
Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> These guys have given their free time so that we can enjoy their module,
> hey could have no documentation at all...
> That said, my comments about documentation lacking still stand.
I think the important thing here is that "these guys" is you
and me. Documentation is exa
Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> Tim Golden wrote:
>> Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
>>> Martin Walsh wrote:
>>>> And by the way, the '&' has special meaning
>>>> to the webbrowser.get method -- it determines whether a
>>>> BackgroundBrows
Kent Johnson wrote:
> Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
>> Tim Golden wrote:
>>> Agreed. But it would be more constructive to offer a simple
>>> patch to the webbrowser docs.
>
> You don't even need to give a formal patch. Just write the doc change in
> plain text and
> ##
I've been having some problems posting to this list,
so this is also a kind of test:
I just wrote a global lstring
def lstrip(S,chars):
if S.startswith(chars):
return S[len(chars):]
else: return S
It begs for a extension o
> ##
I've been having some problems posting to this list,
so this is also a kind of test:
I just wrote a global lstring
def lstrip(S,chars):
if S.startswith(chars):
return S[len(chars):]
else: return S
It begs for a extension o
On Friday 30 November 2007, Eric Brunson wrote:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I'm seeing some strange behavior with lstrip operating
> > on string representations of *nix-style file paths
> >
> > Example:
> >>>> s = '/home/te
Trying this again. This list has not be receiving all
of my emails..
==
On Friday 30 November 2007, Eric Brunson wrote:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I'm seeing some strange behavior with lstrip operating
> > on string represen
On Monday 03 December 2007, Tim Johnson wrote:
> I appear to be having a weird problem with the List Server.
> At first, email sent to this address did not appear at
> all.
> After contacting the ML maintainers only one email from
> me to this address go through. When I replied
Gentlemen:
There appears to still be a problem.
The email below was also sent, but I do not see
that it has been received. Send time was about
2 hours previous to this.
(09:27:42 Alaska Standard Time)
tim
Kent Johnson wrote:
> Norman Khine wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am having difficulties in converting the following to display the
>> difference that has passed in hours and seconds in a nice way.
>>
>> from datetime import datetime
>> now = datetime.now()
>> posted = date
>> difference = now - posted
>>
Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
> I've registered in the issue tracker, but got scared and didn't post
> anything.
Don't be scared: just post up what you think is wrong as clearly
as possible. If you can reasonably provide a patch, do so. Otherwise,
just make it clear what's going on. Even if no-one picks i
On Thursday 06 December 2007, you wrote:
> It arrived.
>
> Since you appear to be the only one reporting the problem, perhaps it's
> something on your end?
It was the domain hoster. It has now been corrected.
thanks
tim
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Hello,
> A list comprehension will work for this. If data is a list of triples of
> (year, month, volume) then this will give you a list of the 1997 triples:
>
> data1997 = [ item for item in data if item[0]==1997 ]
I tried your code out (see below).
Here is the output:
[]
[]
[]
[]
[]
[1990,
Sewqyne Olpo wrote:
> Hello. I want to restrict internet conncection on windows xp
> machine,sometimes to cut off the connection or to reduce the bandwidth
> .. But I dont know exactly where to start and what to learn. Could you
> give some hints about this?
> Thanks in advance.
Couple of things:
Hello,
I have a mbox file locally on my notebook.
I would like to send this file to my IMAP account using python.
Does anyone know a module or tutorial which does this?
I tried
* IMAPClient 0.3 - http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMAPClient/0.3
but it doesn't contain a send function.
Thanks in advanc
Tim Michelsen wrote:
> I have a mbox file locally on my notebook.
>
> I would like to send this file to my IMAP account using python.
Ummm. There seem to be two possible sources of confusion here.
Number one is that you don't normally "send" things via IMAP,
you use th
Kent Johnson wrote:
> Tony Cappellini wrote:
>> I'm using shutils for the first time, and I've un into a problem.
>> The docs for copytree are pretty sparse and don't mention any problem
>> situations
>>
>> Under WinXP, I'm trying to copy a directory tree to a USB device using
>> copytree, but cop
Tony Cappellini wrote:
>> The source for copytree says, "The destination directory must not
>> already exist." I suppose that is why you have a problem but I don't
>> know the specific cause. Did you get a traceback?
>>
>> The source also says, "Consider this example code rather than the
>> ultimat
Andy Cheesman wrote:
> Hi people
>
> Is there a way to use a list with printf formating without having to
> explicitly expanding the list after the %
>
> e.g
>
> a = [1, 2, 3]
>
> print """ Testing
> %i, %i, %i """ %(a[0], a[1], a[2])
>
It looks as though string formatting on
Andy Cheesman wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> After watching a nice Google video on Python 3K, and seeing the
> forthcoming removal of range, I've looked at substitution range with
> xrange within my code. Direct substitution works for 90% percent of the
> case (i.e. for thing in xrange(number): ),
> Delete, then copy. Or use rsync instead of Python...
Yes, I ended up writing a small *.bat file that uses unison for
sychronization.
I still do not understand why I got these permission errors when using
the python script.
Thanks for the help.
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> idea is to record it using software I have, Easy Hi-Q Recorder. I can
> set it to start recording when the program starts, 8pm, but I need to
> have the program playing on my computer. The URL for the stat
Kent Johnson wrote:
> Dick Moores wrote:
>
>> #!/usr/bin/env python
>> #coding=utf-8
>> import time
>> b = '20:00:00'
>> while True:
>> a = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')
>> time.sleep(0.5)
>> if a == b:
>
> You might want to learn how to use your OS's scheduler to do this part.
> I do
[Alan Gauld]
> Thanks Danny, interesting link in that it shows a solution I
> didn't know about in the one-liner at the bottom of the discussion.
>
> But really I was hoping someone could explain *why* there is a
> difference. If PATHEXT can detect that intest.py needs to be run
> through Python w
ave bitmaps for your backgroud, but
of course that can be distracting, if you are (for instance) coding
over the top of Mariah Carey.
For Windows, the finest Shareware edit IMHO is Boxer.
But if I programmed only in Python and only on windows, I'd
use PythonWin.
MTCW
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> with the open source NetBeans IDE. It would be nice if someone
> modified it to work with Python! :-)
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anguage environment mainly on Linux.
*but* if I were programming only in python and
doing so on Windows, I'd probably use pythonwin.
I've used it in the past and was very impressed,
a real python IDE.
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ython threading?
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[Liam Clarke]
> Erm, can someone please aid me? I'm using Windows XP, haven't tested
> this code on Linux yet, but, well watch this...
>
> '<' indicates little-endian, @ indicates native. i is an integer,
Yes x 3.
> q is a long.
No. q in native mode is C "long long" on Linux, or "_int64" on
Win
[Lance E Sloan]
> ...
> (I think it's a little too bad that the timedelta class represents all
> deltas as days and seconds.
And microseconds.
> That must be why they don't support months, since months have
> different lengths. IMHO...)
That's right. It's hard to argue about what days, seconds
the next item, and that the value for the last key is the *first* key.
Is there a different way to do this? Works fine for me this way, but
I'm just curious about an alternative, :-) expecially if it is better.
thanks
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ating the last one,
Yes. You are correct!
tj
> then I'd think of a list,
> and using some modulus when iterating.
> Can you explain more of what you are trying to do?
>
>
> Hugo
>
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > # I have the f
* Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051028 14:05]:
> Tim,
>
> I don;t know if theres a better way but
>
> > next_phases = {"open":"review","review":"write","write":"open"}
> >
> > Note that the value
* Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051028 15:57]:
Andrei, I really like your approach. Will which up an object interface
for it. Will have other applications, I'm sure.
thanks
tim
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > # I have the following dictionary:
> >
Hi All:
Are AJAX resources available for python?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
thanks
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the forseeable future, we will be
running our CGI services on *nix systems.
Thanks
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won't change. Not good!
I think python is the best way to learn *good* programming.
MTCW
tim
> I'd appreciate hearing any views on this topic. My own view is that
> it's always good to learn new things as you then have more tools to
> use in your daily programm
* Ron Weidner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051031 12:38]:
>
>
> --- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello:
> > I need to tighten my handling of CGI transmissions.
> > I particular, I need to develop a strategy of safely
> > dealing with &quo
* John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051031 14:16]:
> On 01/11/05, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello:
> > I need to tighten my handling of CGI transmissions.
> > I particular, I need to develop a strategy of safely dealing
> > with "ta
members must be done in the same manner in which key/value pairs were
added.
I'm currently using Python 2.3.4 on both workstation and internet
servers and must keep backward compatible to that venue.
Thanks
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* Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051112 20:33]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> >I need to get up to speed on iterators. I learned python 1.5~ via
> >Alan G's book ...
> >For an example, I've written a subclass of dict where keys are kept in
> >a ordered fashi
* John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051113 12:16]:
> On 14/11/05, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Now if I assign a value to the iteritems method, as in
> > it = s.iteritems()
> > I get an object of
> > and dir(it) shows that (it) has one
* Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051113 12:04]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Question: Can one subclass an iterator object?
> > thanks for making this a little clearer.
>
> Most *classes* can be subclassed. What do you have in mind?
Oh, I'm just playin
cs.python.org/ref/yield.html
It appears that a generator, is an object, but
not derived from a class, but from a generator function,
using yield.
> Liam Clarke-Hutchinson
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim
>
Well put. Got it.
Thanks Kent
tj
* Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051113 14:44]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > * Liam Clarke-Hutchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051113 12:41]:
> >
> >>Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe there is no specific iterator
s.
I hope to do some testing in the next couple of days, time
permitting.
tj
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> Author of the learn to program web tutor
> http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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;hello')
>>> s = mylib.sub()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in ?
File "mylib.py", line 1612, in __init__
val()
NameError: global name 'val' is not defined
## what do I need to do to make the 'test method visible
## class &
| Do I understand that classes inherit methods, but not |
| variable attributes? |
--------------
Thanks:
I've use inherited classes before but haven't tried
* John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051130 19:21]:
<..snip...>
> On 01/12/05, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> superclass __init__ methods, or when you want to call them. So, it is
> up to you to make that call.
>
> You can do that like this:
>
>
* Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051207 15:56]:
> I must be having a Senior Moment here, but the following
> baffles me:
> >>> label = 'this is "quoted"'
> >>> label.replace('"','\"')
> 'this is &qu
I must be having a Senior Moment here, but the following
baffles me:
>>> label = 'this is "quoted"'
>>> label.replace('"','\"')
'this is "quoted"'
## This works
>>> label.replace('"&#x
all
> otherwise your solution can also be done with raw strings:
>
> >>> label.replace('"','\\"')
> 'this is \\"quoted\\"'
> >>> label.replace('"',r'\"')
> 'this is \\"quoted\\"'
Good tip tho' I keep forgetting about raw strings.
> ok, i'll stop thinking about it now. ;-)
Thanks!
tj
> cheers,
> -wesley
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made calls like set_bit(vInteger,bit_position)
and unset_bit(vInteger,bit_position).
Thanks
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* John Fouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051208 16:55]:
> On 09/12/05, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Are there any python resources available that can make setting/unsetting
> > bits directly? I used to do that in "C" with preprocessor macros that
scope of the method?
If so, how? and pointers to docs would be welcome also.
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ting the information.
Anyone have any pointers?
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Foundations of Python Network Programming:
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[Intercodes]
> This question is just out of curiosity. I am working with this dragon book.
> From what I have learnt so far, RE uses either NFA or DFA to check whether
> the string is accepted or not. (Correct?)
In the world of "computer science" regular expressions, yes. But the
things _called_
[kristi holsinger]
> please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the mailing list! thank you
This is self-service. You need to go to
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
and unsubscribe youself (look for the "Unsubscribe or edit options"
button near the bottom of the page).
_
uages to I
program in or intend to program in? To what extent does content
management matter? How many other programmers am I working with?
Avoid debuggers like a plague. If someone applies for a job
with us and starts talking about their proficiency in
debuggers, the
entire Autocad Tech staff to a training session where they were
trained to use Cad without the mouse. Following the session, they
found that they had a 15% increase in productivity.
I borrowed the tag from Danny. I probably use it a little
differently than he does. Maybe I should use
* Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060206 09:57]:
> >Avoid debuggers like a plague. If someone applies for a job
> > with us and starts talking about their proficiency in
> > debuggers, the interview stops right there and we keep looking.
&g
[Raymond Hettinger]
> ...
> The asymmetric handling of denormals by the atof() and ftoa() functions is
> why you see a difference. A consequence of that asymmetry is the breakdown
> of the expected eval(repr(f))==f invariant:
Just noting that such behavior is a violation of the 754 standard for
s
pt cvs._csv.Error: ## or something like this
print "bad csv record, skipping "
continue
except StopIteration:
break
The problem is that python does not recognize the
error objects and gives me:
"'module' object has no attribute '_cs
Hi Danny:
Thanks!
tim
(who_should_have_read_the_docs)
* Danny Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060210 13:56]:
> > I'd like to do the following
> > while(1):
> > try:
> > reader.next() ## csv object method
> > except cvs._csv.Error: ## or somet
call another process on the same machine and capture
the output of that process, assuming that the child process is writing
to stdout.
thanks
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en I can trap for IOError and hand either a legal response
or an error.
Hope I'm still on the right track.
thanks
tim
* Hugo González Monteverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060215 20:25]:
> I also noticed that if you want to get the manpage, you will be hurt by
> the interactivity of '
[Patty]
| I tried the following piece of code and got :
|
| "TypeError: not enough arguments for format string"
|
| tag = """
|
| %s
|
| -
| 0%
| 10%
| 20%
[... snip similar lines ...]
| """ % (selected_value,selected_value)
[Ben Vinger]
| I want to create a dictionary (from SQL usernames) of
| the format:
| accounts = {
| ('psmit', '123456'): 'psmit',
| ('rmatt', 'mypass'): 'rmatt',
| }
Although possible, this structure looks a little
topsy-turvy: you're keying the dictionary on the
username
[Ars]
| Is there a command that will monitor all running
| processes/programs(on Windows ME)? I'd like to make a
| program that makes a beep when an unrecognized process, such
| as an adware program, is running. That way I'd know
| immediately when one of these stealth programs not on my saf
[Asif Iqbal]
| Does anyone know if there is any python module similar to Authen::ACE
| available that I can use to authenticate against a RSA SecurID server?
I don't believe there is, I'm afraid. Certainly, if a Google for
python securid doesn't turn anything up, it's not likely. However,
it's a
| How can we remove one file inside of a zip archive?
|
| I'm using this method:
|
| import zipfile
|
| ziparchive = zipfile.ZipFile('test.odt', 'r')
| xmldata = ziparchive.read('content.xml')
| ziparchive.close
(Warning: not my area of expertise, but...)
Your example
[kakada]
| Just a quick question again, how can I remove not-empty
| directory in python?
|
| assumed I have the following directory:
|
| ( temp/a/b/
| temp/a/c/d.odt
| temp/e.xml)
|
| I want to remove the whole temp/ directory.
Look at the shutil module, and in particular at the rmtree f
[Johnston Jiaa]
| I recently bought a Macbook Pro from Apple. As it comes with
| a remote, I thought it would be great to use it as a mouse
| when not in Front Row. The fast forward button would move
| the cursor to the left, the volume increase would move it up
| the screen, etc and the pla
[Don Taylor]
> I am trying to use Doctest and am having trouble using the ellipsis
> feature when trying to match an object reference.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> def add_change_listener(self, listener):
> '''
>
> Returns list of listeners just for testing.
> >>> def m
[Tim Peters]
>> That "should work", provided there aren't differences in whitespace
>> that are invisible to us in this medium. For example, if, in your
>> source file, there's actually a (one or more) trailing space on your
>> line of expected output,
[János Juhász]
| I can't find the defined() function in python, so I used
|
| 'variable name' in dir()
|
| for check if the variable defined.
|
| >>> name = 'Joe'
| >>> if 'name' in dir():
| ... print name
| ...
I'm not entirely sure where you'd want
to use this,
.
Kind of like hasattr()
> I'm interested in what use you would make of such a thing?
My business partner is a perl programmer. He uses defined() a lot, I
think, I've seen it in his code
I use value? a lot in rebol.
I like python's in operator. Very handy
ti
* Bob Gailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060403 17:12]:
>
> def defined(name):
> return name in globals()
>
Hah! Good tip. I'll call it value()
I think "language wars" are a waste of time, but
I like the way that using different languages
inform the programm
ur business partner doesn't have the line 'use strict' in their
> code, then give them a good kick and tell them to use it! It's criminal
> for a professonal Perl programmer not to "use strict",
I'm sure he has his "stay out of jail card"
[linda.s]
| I got a sample code and found some
| function definition looks like def _abc
| There is one underscore before the function name "abc",
| what does it mean?
It's a convention which indicates to any user of the code
(including the original developer) that the function is
not intended to
es a row #, col #, and diag #.
>
> Scratching your head over how to number the diagonals I'll leave to you.
> They counted 30 diagonals, so if you come up with a different count, you
> either have an original approach or have blundered somewhere.
>
> (Hopefully that was the k
[Keo Sophon]
| Does python has any function to get a system tempdir of an OS?
You want to be looking at the tempfile module (and in particular
at the gettempdir).
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tempfile.html
TJG
This e
ython console:
Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import codecs
>>> inFile = "in.utf8"
>>> outFil
[Max Russell]
| I know that overall Global variables are bad idea, however,
| I have a situation where on on initialisation of a class, I
| need to read in two files and then populate two lists.
| The lists need to would appear to need to be outwith the
| class I am working with and global.
|
is more productive, line for line,
from my experience. But because of python's OOP engineering it, it
scales better, enabling more maintainable code in larger projects.
Consequently, I use python for big projects, rebol for small.
"""
The right tool for the righ
[Kermit Rose]
> My last email to you bounced.
>
>
> Why?
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 06/06/06 20:30:49
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: The results of your email commands
>
>
> The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your
> original message.
>
> - Unprocessed:
>
in my own way.
The trade-off is time
tj
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Hello:
I'd like to set (write) and get (read) cookies on a client
computer via CGI.
Does python have the libraries to do this. If so, pointers
to the libraries and documentation is welcomed.
thanks
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* Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060726 17:49]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I'd like to set (write) and get (read) cookies on a client
> > computer via CGI.
> >
> > Does python have the libraries to do this. If so, pointers
[Barnaby Scott]
| So I'm thinking along these lines:
|
| import subprocess
| sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe
| /user:administrator
| C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe')
| #some sort of code to send the password here...
| #help!
I *think* -- and I'm ha
[Tim Golden]
| > [Barnaby Scott]
| >
| > | So I'm thinking along these lines:
| > |
| > | import subprocess
| > | sp = subprocess.Popen(r'C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\runas.exe
| > | /user:administrator
| > | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology\aom.exe'
[Dick Moores, computes 100 factorial as
9332621544394415268169923885626670049071596826438162146859296389521753229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864
but worries about all the trailing zeros]
> Yes, I'm sure you are. I'd forgotten about all tho
[Tim Peters]
>> For a fun :-) exercise, prove that the number of trailing zeroes in n!
>> is the sum, from i = 1 to infinity, of n // 5**i (of course as soon as
>> you reach a value of i such that n < 5**i, the quotient is 0 at that i
>> and forever after).
>>
>
[Tim Peters]
>> You would in this case, and that would be wrong. In fp you'd get an
>> approximation to the exact n * (1./5 + 1./5**2 + ...) == n/4. (use
>> the rule for the sum of an infinite geometric series). For example,
>> that way you'd compute that 4
[Kay White]
| I'm trying to make a program that will wait for a specific
| file to be made by another program, and when that happens it
| opens and modifies that file. The other program is a
| commercial game that allows the player to take screenshots.
| It saves the screenshots in a particula
understand" the file type.
Does anyone have any experience with this issue? Or could anyone
recommend a more appropriate place to post this question?
Thanks
tim
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* Luke Paireepinart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060914 17:36]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> >Hi:
> >
> >This is *not* really a python problem, but :-) since this
> >is such an helpful list and others may have the same issue...
> >
> >I have a python script whi
ted this to a forum:
One expert response reads like this:
"I think that's just the way Mozilla acts."
Actually, I like the way Firefox does it. Looks like we just live
with the differences.
thanks again
tim
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