[Tutor] Time Controlled Execution

2005-02-20 Thread Varun Soundararajan
Hi, I want to know how to do this: I have an executable file, which reads input from stdin provided output at stdout or stderr. I have to run it for a specific period of time (say 5 secs), get the output and display it. If i use popen(), this way: from subprocess import * p = Popen(["test","test.ou

[Tutor] Python Online Programming Contest

2005-02-24 Thread Varun Soundararajan
Hi Friends, Department of Information Technology, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University is conducting a technical symposium, Samhita. As a part of samhita, an Online Programming Contest is scheduled on Sunday, 27 Feb 2005. This is the first Online Programming Contest in India to support

[Tutor] Re: Python Online Programming Contest

2005-03-02 Thread Varun Soundararajan
Hi, The results of OPC (online programming contest) is out. The statistics of python usage is available at http://www.samhita.info/opc/status.php. Regards, -OPC Team ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] compilte python to an executable file.

2006-03-27 Thread Varun Soundararajan
Hi jack,   You are right. py2exe may not fit well in commercial software products that arent in the open source model. An executable that was py2exe'd could well be converted back to the source.. I feel that its one of the restrictions thats in the way of enterprization of python...(agreed google u

Re: [Tutor] compilte python to an executable file.

2006-03-27 Thread Varun Soundararajan
hi,   I face a typical problem that most python programmers face. Most users only want a click and run kind of thing..they are uninterested  to install any software on their system , be it python or any other software..so the solution is to pack the code up as a py2exe program for windows and ask t