can't find python2.4 source code

2004-12-13 Thread Donnie Leen
I make program in c++ embedding python2.4 in windows, I need the python24_d.lib to link with the debug version of my program, but i can't find the source code to build python24_d.lib on the internet, I even can't find python24_d.lib/python24_d.dll on the internet. Does the python24 source code rele

Re: can't find python2.4 source code

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Donnie Leen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I make program in c++ embedding python2.4 in windows, I need the > python24_d.lib to link with the debug version of my program, but i can't > find the source code to build python24_d.lib on the internet, I even can't > find python24_d.lib/python24_d.dll on t

PyQt on MAC OS X

2004-12-13 Thread Michael McGarry
Hi, I'm trying to get PyQt up and running under Mac OS X 10.2.8, but can't get past configuring sip. I installed fink's qt3-3.2.3-2 and restarted my shells to get qt3's environment variables QTDIR and QMAKESPEC. I downloaded sip-4.1 from http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk, unpacked it, ran pytho

Re: New versions breaking extensions, etc.

2004-12-13 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
Jive wrote: Well, ain't that enough to gag a maggot? I was aware that DLL's don't really link dynamically. I was not aware that the crt dll file name was hard-coded into the linker. But I looked on the link line and, sure enough, that particular dll was not listed among the others. It's not hard

Re: why no python setup.py uninstall?

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Installing new versions of modules over old versions has often caused me problems. Particularly py3exe recently. Admittedly 'uninstalling' the old version was as simple as deleting the folder from 'site-packages'. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html -- h

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Dimitri Tcaciuc
Brian Beck wrote: Dimitri Tcaciuc wrote: While I'm not absolutely positive, it looks like Python still doesn't have any official mascot or logo. Hence, here's something I came up with yesterday. Its by no means a final version, but rather just a draft to show an idea. Here's a link to png file.

Re: Compiling PIL for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Fuzzyman schrieb: I'll post this to the image-sig as well, but the audience is a bit wider here. Sorry, can't help you on the rest (which seems to be rather MS and compiler specific), but in general: cross-posting is not a good idea. Read any of the many copies of the Netiquette on this topic. In

Re: Python vs. Perl

2004-12-13 Thread Timo Virkkala
Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: Both languages cover all of your requirements. So read as much documentation needed to write some simple programs as examples doing similar tasks to the one you want in *both* languages. Test them that they work. Then forget about your problems. Go to an island

Re: GUIs: wxPython vs. Tkinter (and others)

2004-12-13 Thread Eric Brunel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I had very bad experience with Tkinter when using input servers(for CJK languages like scim, xcin...) on Linux (doesn't work), so you might consider this. Eh? I use (not frequently, I admit...) kinput2 with canna and wnn servers with Tkinter on Linux and it works quite

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Steven Bethard
Christian Ergh wrote: flag = true for char in data: if 127 < ord(char) < 128: flag = false if flag: try: data = data.encode('latin-1') except: pass A little OT, but (assuming I got your indentation right[1]) this kind of loop is exactly what the else clause of a

Re: while 1 vs while True

2004-12-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Dan Bishop wrote: Out of pure curiousity, Why wasn't 'While True' optimized also? Probably has something to do with "True" and "False" not being constants. Yup. Even 'None' only just became a constant in 2.4. I don't know if 'True' and 'False' are in line for similar treatment (there are obvious

Compiling PIL for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
I'll post this to the image-sig as well, but the audience is a bit wider here. I've just upgraded to Python 2.4. I've installed the free microsoft optimising compiler and hacked distutils to use it - following the instructiosn from http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ . It works great a

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Otten
Steven Bethard wrote: > Christian Ergh wrote: >> flag = true >> for char in data: >> if 127 < ord(char) < 128: >> flag = false >> if flag: >> try: >> data = data.encode('latin-1') >> except: >> pass > > A little OT, but (assuming I got your indentation right[1]

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: Dylan wrote: Things I have tried include encode()/decode() This should work. If you somehow manage to guess the encoding, e.g. guess it as cp1252, then htmlstring.decode("cp1252").encode("us-ascii", "xmlcharrefreplace") will give you a file that contains only ASCII charact

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Eric Pederson
> Since the word 'Python' would bring -some- sort of snake associations, > I > thought of combining snake and Monty Python symbolic, like making a > snake wind around a giant foot, or adding long mustache and an english > hat to a snake or something in that manner, or even put a snake into a

Re: Compiling PIL for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Hmmm... disagree. Not eevryone who has experience of compilation (even compiling PIL) will be on the sig. The sifg is probably the 'right' place - but my experience is that a lot of htem are very low traffic. This is also a topic of general interest to many pythoners. See the number of questions r

Re: Compiling PIL for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non triviale en fuite perpétuelle.
Hi ! Fredrik Lundh did what is necessary. PIL for P 2.4 is at : http://effbot.org/downloads/#PIL Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
Peter Otten wrote: Steven Bethard wrote: Christian Ergh wrote: flag = true for char in data: if 127 < ord(char) < 128: flag = false if flag: try: data = data.encode('latin-1') except: pass A little OT, but (assuming I got your indentation right[1]) this kind of loop i

Re: Renaming __getattribute__ (PEP?)

2004-12-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Henry 'Pi' James wrote: This whole issue seems so obvious and trivial to me that I've in fact expected it to be resolved by itself Obvious - arguable Trivial - I think so too, but probably not in the way you mean The obviousness is arguable because the differences between __getattr__ and __getattr

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
Once more, indention should be correct now, and the 128 is gone too. So, something like this? Chris import urllib2 url = 'www.someurl.com' f = urllib2.urlopen(url) data = f.read() # if it is not in the pagecode, how do i get the encoding of the page? pageencoding = '???' xmlencoding = 'whatever

Re: Compiling PIL for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Blimey - there's a lot of typos in my last post... ugh Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Compiling PIL for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Great - and thanks for the info it was interesting messing around with the compiler but I'm not goign to do it for the heck of it !! Thanks Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

ANN: PyCrypto 2.0 Binary Installer

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Because of export restrictions, Andrew is unable to offer prebuilt binary versions of his excellent PyCrypto module. I've built a windows installer for Python 2.4 Actually download it here http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html#crypto Visit PyCrypto Homepage - http://www.amk.ca

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Alex Stapleton
Well the most well known Flying Circus snake related sketch is probably the one eyed trouser snake one, which is er-, probably less than a good idea for a logo. The Snake with some sort of Monty Python themeing is probably the best idea, but drawing a snake + large foot/16 ton weight/holy grail

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
- snip - def get_encoded(st, encodings): "Returns an encoding that doesn't fail" for encoding in encodings: try: st_encoded = st.decode(encoding) return st_encoded, encoding except UnicodeError: pass -snip- This works fine, but after this

Re: can't find python2.4 source code

2004-12-13 Thread Donnie Leen
I had tried already, the doesn't contain the sourcecode. In python2.3.3, the release pakage contained sourcecode is Python-2.3.3.tar. "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Donnie Leen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I make program in c++ embedding python2.4

Re: PEP 338: Executing modules inside packages with '-m'

2004-12-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Fredrik Lundh wrote: I'd say that for a typical user, $ python -m foo.bar arg is a marginal improvement over $ python -c "import foo.bar" arg This doesn't work. Any code protected by "if __name__ == '__main__':" won't run in this context (since 'foo.bar' is being imported as a module, not

Re: PyQt on MAC OS X

2004-12-13 Thread Phil Thompson
> Hi, > > I'm trying to get PyQt up and running under Mac OS X 10.2.8, but > can't get past configuring sip. > > I installed fink's qt3-3.2.3-2 and restarted my shells to get > qt3's environment variables QTDIR and QMAKESPEC. > > I downloaded sip-4.1 from > http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk, > unpa

urllib2 and Set-Cookie with "302 Moved temporarily"

2004-12-13 Thread Eino Mäkitalo
It seems that urrlib2 default redirection does not allow me to handle Cookies. Service I'm trying seems to use IP switcher and session id's with cookies. After successful login it changes session id (PD-H_SESSION-ID) in 302 Moved temporarily. Urllib2 is so clever that it handles redirection but

Re: newbie questions

2004-12-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
"houbahop Thank you everyone, but I still not understand why such a comon feature like passing parameters byref that is present in most serious programming languages is not possible in a clean way,here in python. I have the habit to never use globals as far as possible and this involve that my m

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> duane> I'm looking for a stand alone email program which is not > duane> browser based. I simply want to write, send and receive > duane> email without accessing the internet. Is Python 3.0 that > duane> kind of program? I'd appreciate your response. > I'm a little confused by

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Adil Hasan
Would a parrot on it's back be better? adil On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Alex Stapleton wrote: > Well the most well known Flying Circus snake related sketch is probably > the one eyed trouser snake one, which is er-, probably less than a good > idea for a logo. The Snake with some sort of Monty Pytho

Re: PIL for Windows for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
Fuzzyman wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Fuzzyman wrote: If you're determined enough there are instructions here : http://www.vrplumber.com/programming/mstoolkit/ These will get you the Visual Studio 7 tools (free releases of) and tell you how to configure distutils to use it. Hefty downloads though, d

Re: thread/queue bug

2004-12-13 Thread Antoon Pardon
Op 2004-12-12, Tim Peters schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think you'd have to ask Brett (who did most of the work on > dummy_thread and dummy_threading). It doesn't really matter, though: > it's a general truth that starting a thread as a side effect of > importing is a recipe for deadlock, an

re: usage of __import__ across two files

2004-12-13 Thread bwobbones
Thanks Diez, Obvious when you put it that way... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Why are tuples immutable?

2004-12-13 Thread jfj
Yo. Why can't we __setitem__ for tuples? The way I see it is that if we enable __setitem__ for tuples there doesn't seem to be any performance penalty if the users don't use it (aka, python performance independent of tuple mutability). On the other hand, right now we have to use a list if we want t

Another RegEx Question...

2004-12-13 Thread andrea . gavana
Hello NG, I'm quite new to Python and I don't know if this is a FAQ (I can't find it) or an obvious question. I'm using the RE module in python, and I would like to be able to contruct something like the Window$ "Find Files Or Folders" engine. As the Window$ users know, you can filter the fi

Re: can't find python2.4 source code

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
Donnie Leen wrote: I had tried already, the doesn't contain the sourcecode. In python2.3.3, the release pakage contained sourcecode is Python-2.3.3.tar. Rhubarb. All you had to do was follow Fredrik's instructions. Since they didn't appear to be explicit enough for you, search in the page he names

How can i send 8-bit data or binary data with pyserial?

2004-12-13 Thread ouz as
hi, I want to transfer 0 bit and 1 bit in order with pyserial.But pyserial only send string data. Can anyone help me? Sorry about my english.. _ Depolama alani sikintisindan kurtulun - hemen Hotmail'e üye olun! http://odeme.hotmail

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Jeremy Jones
Luis M. Gonzalez wrote: Hey Dimitri, I completely agree with you in that Python needs once for all a cool logo. I like your design very much, but I have a few thoughts about it: 1) I think that Python's logo should reflect its power. Vorpal Bunny. Now, *that's* power. If we use a mascot as its

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Alex Stapleton
The problem with parrots is that Perl 6's engine is called Parrot. Although I suppose the image of a dead Parrot/snake eating a parrot etc could be a "good" one in some peoples minds. But i'm not sure Perl people are really the sort that you wan't to make enemies of, they are deadly with custard

Re: How can i send 8-bit data or binary data with pyserial?

2004-12-13 Thread Michel Claveau - abstraction méta-galactique non triviale en fuite perpétuelle.
Hi ! 1 byte is 8 bits. If you want to manage bits, one by one, you can rewrite a protocol, and replace pyserial. Have a good day -- Michel Claveau -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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2004-12-13 Thread FETCHMAIL-DAEMON
Some addresses were rejected by the MDA fetchmail forwards to. Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:41:26 +0530 (IST) Action: failed Status: 3.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... User unknow

Re: PIL for Windows for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
That's odd - it worked fully *both* times I've done it. I did the *full* doenload though and downloaded the 13 CAB files individually and did a local install. Regards, Fuzzy http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why are tuples immutable?

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
jfj wrote: Yo. Why can't we __setitem__ for tuples? The way I see it is that if we enable __setitem__ for tuples there doesn't seem to be any performance penalty if the users don't use it (aka, python performance independent of tuple mutability). On the other hand, right now we have to use a list i

Re: Tibia 0.1 DOM-based website editor

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
The example that Robert posted is protected with http BASIC authentication (judging by the popup anyway). Part of the Jalopy toolkit is `Login Tools` that implements a CGI Login framework that can be plugged into any CGI with the addition of as little as 2 lines of code. It includes optional user

Re: PIL for Windows for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
Fuzzyman wrote: That's odd - it worked fully *both* times I've done it. I did the *full* doenload though and downloaded the 13 CAB files individually and did a local install. I made the mistake of trying to use the Microsoft installer, which is frankly a load of crap. As I write it's now canceling

Re: How can i send 8-bit data or binary data with pyserial?

2004-12-13 Thread Richard Brodie
"ouz as" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I want to transfer 0 bit and 1 bit in order with pyserial.But pyserial only > send string data. string _is_ the type one would normally use in Python for 8-bit encoded data. If you are a Unicode purist, that's perhaps all yo

Re: can't find python2.4 source code

2004-12-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
Donnie Leen wrote: I make program in c++ embedding python2.4 in windows, I need the python24_d.lib to link with the debug version of my program, but i can't find the source code to build python24_d.lib on the internet, I even can't find python24_d.lib/python24_d.dll on the internet. Does the python

Re: How can i send 8-bit data or binary data with pyserial?

2004-12-13 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
> I want to transfer 0 bit and 1 bit in order with pyserial.But pyserial > only send string data. Convert your data to numbers and use module struct to create strings out of it. Apart from that: You can only send chunks of bits as configured in your serial settings - e.g. 8N1 means that you will

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
Dylan wrote: Here's what I'm trying to do: - scrape some html content from various sources The issue I'm running to: - some of the sources have incorrectly encoded characters... for example, cp1252 curly quotes that were likely the result of the author copying and pasting content from Word Finally:

Re: character encoding conversion

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
Forgot a part... You need the encoding list: encodings = [ 'utf-8', 'latin-1', 'ascii', 'cp1252', ] Christian Ergh wrote: Dylan wrote: Here's what I'm trying to do: - scrape some html content from various sources The issue I'm running to: - some of the sources have incorrectly e

Re: predict directory write permission under windows?

2004-12-13 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:14:03 +0800, rumours say that Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I want to know if I can write files into a directory before I actually >perferm the write behavor. I found os.access(path, os.W_OK) but it uses >real uid/gid to check instead of euid/egi

save an opengl canvas (wxPython)

2004-12-13 Thread Zunbeltz Izaola
Hi, I've a drawing made in an OpenGL canvas. I want to save it to a file (preferibly PostScript format). Somebody knows how to do it? TIA Zunbeltz -- Zunbeltz Izaola Azkona| wmbizazz at lg dot ehu dotes Materia Kondentsatuaren Fisika Saila | Zientzia eta Teknologia F

Re: Python 3.0

2004-12-13 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:44:02 -0600, rumours say that John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I'm a little confused by your request to send and receive email >without accessing the internet, since email generally travels over the >internet. Do you only want to handle email over an int

Re: predict directory write permission under windows?

2004-12-13 Thread Larry Bates
My method isn't elegant, but I use tempfile to create a tempfile in the directory (inside a try block). If it works, closing the file makes it go away. Larry Bates Syscon, Inc. Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to know if I can write files into a directory before I actually perferm the write behavor.

Re: thread/queue bug

2004-12-13 Thread Tim Peters
[Antoon Pardon] > I don't see why starting a thread as a side effect of importing is > bad thread practice. Sure python doesn't cater for it, but IMO > that seems to be python failing. Obviously, it's bad practice in Python because it can lead to deadlocks in Python. It's nearly tautological. Im

Re: A problem with list

2004-12-13 Thread Roy Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >but when I have Mylist in a file and I read it from the file it does >not work as I expect. ># >import string >ff=open('C:\\Robotp\\MyFile.txt','r') # read MyList from a file >MyList=ff.read() >for i in MyList: >print i >### >I will get >[ >' >a >b >c >'

RE: A problem with list

2004-12-13 Thread Batista, Facundo
Title: RE: A problem with list [EMAIL PROTECTED] #- where my MyFile.txt looks like this: #- ['abc','def'] The issue is that in the file you don't have a list, you have text, and there is the difference in the behaviour. >>> l = ['abc','def'] >>> for x in l:     print x abc def >>>

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread wk8l
I thought there was probably already an official mascot. There's a little green snake with his tongue hanging out on the left of the URL when you visit www.python.org. I see it in my Safari browser on Mac OS X and in Firefox, but not in Internet Exploder. I thought that I had seen a large pictur

Re: A problem with list

2004-12-13 Thread gawel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following code ## import string MyList=['abc','def'] for i in MyList: print i ### works as I expect that is I get abc def but when I have Mylist in a file and I read it from the file it does not work as I expect. # import string ff=open('

RE: uptime for Win XP?

2004-12-13 Thread Tim Golden
[Peter Hansen] | | Richie Hindle wrote: | > [Greg] | > | import win32api | print "Uptime:", win32api.GetTickCount(), "Milliseconds" | > | > Note that in the unlikely event of your Windows machine being up for | > longer than 2^32 ms (about 49 days), GetTickCount() will | wrap back to |

Re: Why are tuples immutable?

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"jfj" wrote: > Why can't we __setitem__ for tuples? http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-are-there-separate-tuple-and-list-data-types > The way I see it is that if we enable __setitem__ for tuples there > doesn't seem to be any performance penalty if the users don't use it > (aka, pyth

Performance (pystone) of python 2.4 lower then python 2.3 ???

2004-12-13 Thread Lucas Hofman
Hi, Just installed Python 2.4 on a machine (RH8.0 Linux) that also has python 2.3 and python 2.2 installed. The latter came with the linux distribution, the other are compiled from source tarballs. Comparing them gives the following unexpected result: [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ /usr/bin/python pys

Re: Suggestion for "syntax error": ++i, --i

2004-12-13 Thread Christian Ergh
Hmm, i never liked the i++ syntax, because there is a value asignment behind it and it does not show - except the case you are already used to it. >>> i = 1 >>> i +=1 >>> i 2 I like this one better, because you see the assignment at once, it is easy to read and inuitive usability is given - in m

Re: PyQt on MAC OS X

2004-12-13 Thread Kevin Walzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've assembled a binary installer for the native version of PyQt. See http://www.wordtech-software.com/pyqt-mac.html I built it on Panther. Not sure if it will work on Jaguar, but you're welcome to give it a try. Michael McGarry wrote: | Hi, | | I'm tr

Re: PEP 338: Executing modules inside packages with '-m'

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nick Coghlan wrote: >> $ python -c "import foo.bar" arg > > This doesn't work. Any code protected by "if __name__ == '__main__':" won't > run in this context > (since 'foo.bar' is being imported as a module, not run as a script). I appreciate that you're taking the time to teach me about Py

anybody know how to use python to communicate with UART?

2004-12-13 Thread Arnold
I want to use python to communicate with UART port in my PC, how can I achieve this? any modules need to be installed? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Another RegEx Question...

2004-12-13 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hello Andrea, > I'm quite new to Python and I don't know if this is a FAQ (I > can't find it) or an obvious question. I'm using the RE module > in python, and I would like to be able to contruct something > like the Window$ "Find Files Or Folders" engine. As the Window$ > users know, you can filte

Re: Another RegEx Question...

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm quite new to Python and I don't know if this is a FAQ (I can't > find it) or an obvious question. I'm using the RE module in python, and I > would like to be able to contruct something like the Window$ "Find Files Or > Folders" engine. As the Window$ users kno

Suggestion for "syntax error": ++i, --i

2004-12-13 Thread Petr Prikryl
Hi, Summary: In my opinion, the C-like prefix increment and decrement operators (++i and --i) should be marked as "syntax error". Current situation: try... (Python 2.4 (#60, ...)) >>> i = 1 >>> i 1 >>> i++ File "", line 1 i++ ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> ++i 1 >>> --i 1 >>> Rea

RE: Tibia 0.1 DOM-based website editor

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Brewer
Richie Hindle wrote: > [Robert] > > Tibia is an in-browser editor for web pages. It allows you > to quickly > > and easily modify the content of your web pages. It allows you to > > directly view, edit, and save files on your webserver. > > Very impressive! I ran into a couple of difficulties bu

Re: anybody know how to use python to communicate with UART?

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
Arnold wrote: I want to use python to communicate with UART port in my PC, how can I achieve this? any modules need to be installed? Thanks pyserial is the usual solution. See http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ regards Steve -- Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/ Python Web Program

Re: urllib2 and Set-Cookie with "302 Moved temporarily"

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Eino Mäkitalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that urrlib2 default redirection does not allow me to handle > Cookies. Service I'm trying seems to use IP switcher and session id's with > cookies. After > successful login it changes session id (PD-H_SESSION-ID) in 302 Moved > temporarily.

Re: anybody know how to use python to communicate with UART?

2004-12-13 Thread Fuzzyman
Have you tried pyserial ? Regards, Fuzzy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread infidel
Not that my opinion is worth anything in these matters, but I like the upper-left example at http://exogen.cwru.edu/python.png the best (out of the samples I've seen thus far). I don't like the "gear" shape, and I think adding a coil or circle around the "head" detracts somewhat from the look. I

Re: newbie questions

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Nick Coghlan wrote: > Python could be said to pass everything by reference. You are getting caught > more by the > difference between mutable and immutable types, than by the distinction > between 'pass by > reference' and 'pass by value' that other languages have (Python actually > uses a bl

Re: newbie questions

2004-12-13 Thread houbahop
thanks, very usefull answer. > Immutable types (e.g. strings, numbers, tuples) are generally returned > directly from functions, rather than returned as 'output parameters'. The > ability to return multiple values easily (via "return a, b, c" & "x, y, z > = myfunc()" generally eliminates the n

Re: from vb6 to Python

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martijn Faassen wrote: > Unfortunately this is currently not near production use, and whether > Microsoft is funding > IronPython development is up in the air: http://www.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=6391a54a-bfd7-4384-b18f-cecb0acf86e0 (too bad it's in seattle) -- ht

Re: PIL for Windows for Python 2.4

2004-12-13 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: Fuzzyman wrote: That's odd - it worked fully *both* times I've done it. I did the *full* doenload though and downloaded the 13 CAB files individually and did a local install. I made the mistake of trying to use the Microsoft installer, which is frankly a load of crap. As I writ

Re: jython and concatenation of strings

2004-12-13 Thread Steven Bethard
Jan Gregor wrote: Hello I found that price of += operator on string is too high in jython. For example 5000 such operations took 90 seconds (i generated html copy of table with 1000 rows and 5 columns). Generation of row data into separate string and joining after lead to time 13 seconds !!!

Re: Suggestion for "syntax error": ++i, --i

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Maas
Christian Ergh schrieb: Ah, ok, i misunderstood you. Well, to mark it as a syntax error sounds good, and at the Moment I would not know a case where this conflicts with a implementation. target = 'a=' sign = '-' operand = '-2' exec(target+sign+operand) -- -

Re: make uninstall?

2004-12-13 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >I installed Python-2.3.4 from source... > configure && make && make install > > Now I want to remove it, but make uninstall doesn't work. How do I > uninstall it? $ python >>> import sys >>> sys.executable '/usr/somewhere/bin/python' >>> sys.prefix '/usr/somewhere'

Re: Suggestion for "syntax error": ++i, --i

2004-12-13 Thread Istvan Albert
Petr Prikryl wrote: Summary: In my opinion, the C-like prefix increment and decrement operators (++i and --i) should be marked as "syntax error". My guess is that the impact of it would be nil. This is python, there are no prefix or postfix operators. That is very easy to remember. Just because one

Re: uptime for Win XP?

2004-12-13 Thread Andrey Ivanov
[Peter Hanson] > The real solution, in spite of the dozen alternatives we've > now produced, seems to be to use the win32pdh library > to access the "System"-> "System Up Time" value. It > claims to return an 8-byte value, which likely doesn't > wrap quite so soon. (And yes, remarkably, with the

Re: make uninstall?

2004-12-13 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
So Python installs one file and two dirs (containing files/dirs). If I delete all three of those, it will delete all installed modules as well, right? I mean, when I installed cx_Oracle, it only installed files in $PYTHONDIR/lib/python2.3 and $PYTHONDIR/include/python2.3 right? Thanks for the he

Python Bounties (other than Shuttleworth)?

2004-12-13 Thread Mark Pratt
Hi, We are trying to build a Database of all Open Source Bounties, Call for Tenders (projects), and Grants. Other than the Bounties provided by Mark Shuttleworth is anyone available of any on other sites? Here is a link to our DB: http://www.opensourcexperts.com/bountylist.html Cheers, Mark --

Re: Suggestion for "syntax error": ++i, --i

2004-12-13 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:42:28 +0100, rumours say that "Petr Prikryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >Summary: In my opinion, the C-like prefix >increment and decrement operators (++i and --i) >should be marked as "syntax error". [snip of lots of explanations] I am +0 on this. However, I

Re: Fun with Outlook and MAPI

2004-12-13 Thread Chris
At the risk of beating a dead horse, but you really should consider using SMTP instead if you are really going to be sending a lot of messages. The problem is that doesn't work in more complicated configurations such as when authentication and/or SSL have to happen, not to mention the issue of conf

Re: Read a gzip file from inside a tar file

2004-12-13 Thread Rohit
if I change fileText = fileLike.read() to fileText = fileLike.readLines(). It works for a while before it gets killed of out of memory. These are huge files. My goal is to analyze the content of the gzip file in the tar file without having to un gzip. If that is possible. -- http://mail.python

Re: Qt String Question

2004-12-13 Thread Detlev Offenbach
Phil Thompson wrote: >> Michael McGarry wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> How do I convert from a qt.QString to a Python string? >>> >>> Michael >> Apparently the ascii() method of QString does this. (I answered my own >> question). > > Or use the str() builtin. > > Phil unicode() is even better because Q

Re: newbie questions

2004-12-13 Thread Adam DePrince
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 11:30, houbahop --> > thanks, very usefull answer. > > > > Immutable types (e.g. strings, numbers, tuples) are generally returned > > directly from functions, rather than returned as 'output parameters'. The > > ability to return multiple values easily (via "return a, b, c

Re: uptime for Win XP?

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Hansen
Andrey Ivanov wrote: [Peter Hanson] For the life of me, however, I can't figure out how to do it. Here's how. :-) = import win32pdh query = win32pdh.OpenQuery() counter = win32pdh.AddCounter(query, r"\System\System Up Time") Argh! A _

Re: Fun with Outlook and MAPI

2004-12-13 Thread Chris
There is actually a workaround. You're using Simple MAPI which has a nice easy interface. The confirmation dialogs are only for Simple MAPI. Using Extended MAPI can work around the problem but its a lot more tricky. See the initial discussion here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/P

Re: Performance (pystone) of python 2.4 lower then python 2.3 ???

2004-12-13 Thread Istvan Albert
Lucas Hofman wrote: Anyone who understands what is going on? It is difficult to measure a speedup that might be well within your measurement error. Run the same pystone benchmark repeatedly and see what variation you get. Istvan. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

looking for blocking on read of a real file (not socket or pipe)

2004-12-13 Thread Steven
Hello, I'm seeking a read method that will block until new data is available. Is there such a python function that does that? Thanks, Steven Howe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how do I "peek" into the next line?

2004-12-13 Thread Jeffrey Maitland
Jeffrey Maitland writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, suppose I am reading lines from a file or stdin. I want to just "peek" in to the next line, and if it starts with a special character I want to break out of a for loop, other wise I want to do readline(). Is there a way to do this? for

Re: Python vs. Perl

2004-12-13 Thread Jon Perez
Michael McGarry wrote: I intend to use a scripting language for GUI development and front end code for my simulations in C. I want a language that can support SQL, Sockets, File I/O, and shell interaction. In my experience, Python is definitely much more suitable than Perl for the first four area

building extension modules under 2.4 / cygwin

2004-12-13 Thread John Hunter
For the first time, I am trying to compile a matplotlib installer for win32 / python2.4 under cygwin. I tested this earlier with one of the pre-release candidates and had no troubles. But when I compile with python2.4, I get the following error when I try and import my extension code the proc

Re: Python mascot proposal

2004-12-13 Thread Lenard Lindstrom
Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Beck wrote: > > http://exogen.cwru.edu/python2.png > > Oooh, I like this one. Very cool! > Its visually stunning. But under Windows gears show up in the DLL and batch file icons. Lenard Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/

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