Your Favorite Python Book
Greetings. I'm working on learning Python and I'm looking for good books to read. I'm almost done with Dive into Python and I liked it a lot. I found Programming Python a little dry the last time I looked at it, but I'm more motivated now so I might return to it. What's your favorite? Why? -sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: New to python, can i ask for a little help?
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:18 AM, warhammer1...@gmail.com <
warhammer1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
> >>> print "hello world!"
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax (, line 1)
> >>>
>
> Can anyone tell me what is wrong? I didnt expect that error
>
Try:
print("hello world!")
I believe Python 3 requires parenthesis for print. Someone else can explain
why perhaps.
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Re: Your Favorite Python Book
Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I've got a copy of Core Python 2nd Edition on the way. -sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Difference between list() and [] with dictionaries
Hello all. Can anyone explain why this creates a list containing a
dictionary:
[{'a': 'b', 'foo': 'bar'}]
But this creates a list of keys of the dictionary:
list({ "a": "b", "foo": "bar" })
I expected them to be equivalent but clearly they're not! I'm using Python
2.6.1 if that helps.
-sam
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[ANN] onlinepayment v1.0.0 released
onlinepayment v1.0.0 - a generic Python API for making online payments
This module provides an API wrapper around a variety of payment
providers. Using this module you can write code that will work the
same regardless of the payment provider in use.
Examples::
from onlinepayment import OnlinePayment
# connect to authorize.net, setup auth with login and key
auth= { 'login': 'YOUR LOGIN HERE',
'key': 'YOUR KEY HERE' }
op = OnlinePayment('authnet', test_mode=True, auth=auth)
# or for paypal, setup auth with user, pass, vendor and product:
auth= { 'username': 'YOUR USERNAME HERE',
'password': 'YOUR PASSWORD HERE',
'vendor': 'YOUR VENDOR HERE',
'product': 'YOUR PRODUCT HERE' }
# connect to PayPal
op = OnlinePayment('paypal', test_mode=True, auth=auth)
# charge a card
try:
result = op.sale(first_name = 'Joe',
last_name = 'Example',
address= '100 Example Ln.',
city = 'Exampleville',
state = 'NY',
zip= '10001',
amount = '2.00',
card_num = '400700027',
exp_date = '0530',
card_code = '1234')
except conn.TransactionDeclined:
# do something when the transaction fails
except conn.CardExpired:
# tell the user their card is expired
except conn.ProcessorException:
# handle all other possible processor-generated exceptions generically
# examine result, the values returned here are processor-specific
success = result.success
code = result.code
message = result.message
trans_id = result.trans_id
# you can get the raw data returned by the underlying processor too
orig = result.orig
Installation
Before you can use this module you must install one or more payment
processors. To install the PayPal payflowpro package::
# easy_install pytz
# easy_install python-payflowpro
To install the zc.authorizedotnet package and the authorize package
(for recurring support)::
# easy_install zc.authorizedotnet
# easy_install authorize
If you want authorize.net support you'll need to install a patched
version of zc.ssl. Hopefully someday this will be released by the
Zope devs, but so far I haven't heard anything back. Download the
zc.ssl source package from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.ssl/, then
unpack::
# tar zxvf zc.ssl-1.1.tar.gz
# cd zc.ssl-1.1
Now download and apply my zc-ssl-timeout.patch::
# wget
http://python-onlinepayment.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/zc-ssl-timeout.patch
# patch -p1 < /zc-ssl-timeout.patch
And install the patched module::
# python setup.py install
(You may also need to edit setup.py and remove the
'ssl-for-setuptools' dependecy. I did, although it may be a quirk of
my Python install rather than a general problem.)
Once you have a payment processor you can install this module::
# easy_install onlinepayment
For more information see: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/onlinepayment/1.0.0
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Online payment module
Hello all. I'm considering building a module to provide a cross-payment-gatewat API for making online payments. In the Perl world we have a module like this called Business::OnlinePayment ( http://search.cpan.org/~jasonk/Business-OnlinePayment-2.01/OnlinePayment.pm). Is there anything like this in Python? My searches so far haven't turned up anything. If I don't find one I'll probably build one, covering PayPal and Authorize.net to start. If anyone is interested in discussing the project and/or getting involved shoot me an email. Thanks, -sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Online payment module
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Kushal Kumaran < kushal.kumaran+pyt...@gmail.com > wrote: > > Not really familiar with this area, but have you seen these? > > http://code.google.com/p/pypaypal/ > http://www.geteasyshop.com/front-page > Thanks, but neither of these are remotely what I'm looking for! The first is an API for accessing PayPal, but not the one I'll be using - this one has only one release and hasn't been updated in over a year, looks basically useless. The other is a full-fledged e-commerce application, not a code library. -sam -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
