Re: Why are so many built-in types inheritable?

Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 2006-03-30, Michele Simionato schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I cannot find the reference now, but I remember Tim Peters saying some >> time ago that the only >> reason why FunctionType is not subclassable is that nobody bothered to >> write a patch for it. > > The questi

Re: tkinter question

On 30 Mar 2006 15:11:19 -0800, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you just create >> a Toplevel and populate it with widgets, it will just display once the >> control is returned to the Tkinter mainloop and no user input will be >> needed. > > Thanks for explaining that. I borrowed the "after" method

Re: how to comment lot of lines in python

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Like in C we comment like > /* > Bunch of lines of code > */ > > Should we use docstring """ """ > > Or there is something else too ?? > > Every help is appreciated. > > Thanks Hi, Maybe this sounds simplier than regexp and so, just use the """ marker like this : "

Re: Best IDE for Python?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > I want to know which is the best IDE for python.Please if > > possible mention the features of the IDE. > > The best IDE is the one that YOU can be most productive in. What /I/ > find useful may not be of interest to /you/. nonsense. vim is the best tool for e

Re: Best IDE for Python?

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >>> I want to know which is the best IDE for python.Please if >>>possible mention the features of the IDE. >> >>The best IDE is the one that YOU can be most productive in. What /I/ >>find useful may not be of interest to /you/. > > nonsense.

Re: Find similar images using python

John J. Lee schreef: > Richie Hindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [Thomas] >>> How can I use python to find images that looks quite similar? >> Have you looked at http://www.imgseek.net/ ? It's an Open Source Python >> photo >> collection manager that does exactly what you're asking for. >

Re: Low Pass Hamming filter design

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Re: Best IDE for Python?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > I want to know which is the best IDE for python.Please if > > possible mention the features of the IDE. > > The best IDE is the one that YOU can be most productive in. What /I/ > find useful may not be of interest to /you/. nonsense. emacs is the best tool for

Re: C++ and Python

sorry accidentally hit post. has nyone tried this before? Thanks, Marc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Low Pass Hamming filter design

Is there someone that can help me? please Vincenzo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Why are so many built-in types inheritable?

Op 2006-03-30, Michele Simionato schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I cannot find the reference now, but I remember Tim Peters saying some > time ago that the only > reason why FunctionType is not subclassable is that nobody bothered to > write a patch for it. The question then is, why is there a need

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C++ and Python

I've been learning to write VST plugins in C++ and would like to switch back to Python. The first step of writing the plugin is to import the C++ header files from the Steinberg SDK. How can I do this in Python. I've tried looking at SWIG but didn't really understand what it was trying to do.

Re: proposed proposal: set.values()

Paul Rubin wrote: > > 1. It is pure duplication that *adds* keystrokes. > > Nobody says you shouldn't use list(s) if you know you're dealing with > a set. The idea of s.values() is so you can duck-type between dicts > and sets. if y is a dict, "x in y" looks for a matching key, not for a matchin

Re: logging producing redundant entries

Jed Parsons wrote: > I'm using the logging module for the first time. I'm using it from > within Zope Extensions. > > My problem is that, for every event logged, the logger is producing > multiple identical entries with the timestamp the same down to the > millisecond. > > Is this something I'm

Re: Doc suggestions (was: Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In the time you've spent posting about this, you or someone > else with svn access to the docs, could have simply gone > and made the change. Admittedly most changes would > require more process but there are many like this just require > someone to DO IT. Give me svn

Re: any() and all() on empty list?

Alex Martelli wrote: > > >>>all(flying elephants which are not pink) => true > > >>> > > >>>So, these flying elephants -- are they pink or not? > > >> > > >> No, you ask two different sets whether they are true. > > > > > > No, there is only one empty set. > > > > who said anything about empty set

Re: any() and all() on empty list?

Carl Banks wrote: > In Python, yes and no are the only possible answers. Probably the only > analogous thing you could do in Python would be for all() to raise > ValueError when passed an empty sequence. There is also 'None' which serves a similar purpose of indicating an invalid value when pas

Re: PIL ImageDraw line not long enough

Bob Greschke wrote: > I have to extend the vertical line to y+8, instead of y+7 to get the line > segment to be drawn long enough. This is on Linux, Solaris, 2.x versions of > Python, 1.1.5 version of PIL, and on Windows with the latest of everything. > Am I missing a setting somewhere? I recent

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Re: Matplotlib: How to set number of ticks on an axis?

John, Thank you. Caleb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simple py script to calc folder sizes

Ben, Thank you. Caleb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to debug python code?

Here is an outstandingly well written article, with examples, from Stephen Ferg: http://www.ferg.org/papers/debugging_in_python.html Ravi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best IDE for Python?

This topic has come up a few dozen times at the least. Please use google to search for the threads. People have their preferences. The best way to choose is to try several by yourself. Most of them are free. http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments -- http://mail.python.org

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Re: any() and all() on empty list?

Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marcin Ciura wrote: > > >>>all(flying elephants which are not pink) => true > >>> > >>>So, these flying elephants -- are they pink or not? > >> > >> No, you ask two different sets whether they are true. > > > > No, there is only one empty set. > > who s

Best IDE for Python?

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Re: Connecting to gnuplot with Popen?

> I want to control gnuplot with a python program. Hi Anton, here is a little snippet using os.popen: import os gp = os.popen('gnuplot -persist', 'w') print >> gp, "set yrange [-300:300]" for n in range(300): print >> gp, "plot %i*cos(x)+%i*log(x+10)" % (n,150-n) Rega

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How to debug python code?

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Re: How to determine COM objects/functions

Servus, Scott Brown schrieb: > Say I'm operating with win32com.client and I am polling a certain > application...Internet Explorer perhaps. Is there a way to find out all > available objects and associated functions? Using dir() on the COM In PythonWin under Tools Menu there is a COM Browser.

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Re: logging producing redundant entries

Jed Parsons wrote: > My problem is that, for every event logged, the logger is producing > multiple identical entries with the timestamp the same down to the > millisecond. > import logging > # basicConfig for python 2.3 > logging.basicConfig() [...] > _logger.addHandler(_handl

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Re: Another proposed proposal: operator.bool_and / bool_or

>def any(seq): return reduce(bool_or, seq, False) > def all(seq): return reduce(bool_and, seq, True) Any other use cases? These will be built-in in 2.5 -Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Another proposed proposal: operator.bool_and / bool_or

The suggestion is to add boolean and/or functions to the operator module, useful with "reduce". For some reason I thought these were already present, but they're not (were they removed?). There are already and_ and or_, but these are bitwise functions, not boolean operations. bool_and and bool_o

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How to determine COM objects/functions

Hi, I'm new to this list. I have looked around the archives for this question but haven't seen an answer for it yet (though there are a lot of messages to sift through). Say I'm operating with win32com.client and I am polling a certain application...Internet Explorer perhaps. Is there a way

Re: does python could support sequence of short or int?

thanks for help. formerly I only know to use the struct like bellow: >>> unpack('hhl', '\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03') Great, python can work like this: >>> l = list(struct.unpack('h'*(len(s)/2), s)) I will try to use the numarray also >>>there are some good exensions for Python, >>>numarray an

Re: proposed proposal: set.values()

"Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. It is pure duplication that *adds* keystrokes. Nobody says you shouldn't use list(s) if you know you're dealing with a set. The idea of s.values() is so you can duck-type between dicts and sets. > 2. It copies the wrong aspect of dict. A set is lik

Pylint-like source code reformatter

I've recently developed a need for a python source code re-formatter, ideally conforming to the sort of style that pylint enforces. I don't know of any, and my googling wasn't very productive. Does anyone know of anything? Stand-alone or vim based both work for me, though stand-alone would be prefe

Re: urllib2 through basic auth'ed proxy

John J. Lee wrote: > FWIW, at a glance, Python 2.3.4 has neither of the bugs I mentioned, > but the code I posted seems to work with 2.3.4. I'm not particularly > interested in what's wrong with 2.3.4's version or your usage of it > (probably both), since bugfix releases for 2.3 are no longer > h

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Re: Tablelist 4.3

Arne Meissner wrote: > Hello everybody! > > I have downloaded the Tablelist 4.3 from http://www.nemethi.de/. > > Now I want to install it on my system Win XP. > > From the distribution I have got the following information: > " > On Windows, use WinZip or some other program capable of unpacking the

Re: Newbie: splitting dictionary definition across two .py files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm fairly new to python. I like to define a big dictionary in two > files and use it my main file, build.py > > I want the definition to go into build_cfg.py and build_cfg_static.py. That sounds like a very confusing architecture, and smells very much like some kind o

Re: Newbie: splitting dictionary definition across two .py files

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like to define a big dictionary in two > files and use it my main file, build.py > > I want the definition to go into build_cfg.py and build_cfg_static.py. > > build_cfg_static.py: > target_db = {} > target_db['foo'] = 'bar' > > build_cfg.py > target_db['xyz'] = 'abc' >

Re: any() and all() on empty list?

Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:28:54 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > No, all(seq) is true if you can't point to a specific element in seq > >> > that's false. > >> > >> No, all(seq) is true if every element in seq is true. Surely th

Re: Identifying filled circles in a scanned image

Douglas Douglas wrote: > First of all. Thanks Claudio and nikie for your fast answers. > > What I want to do is process the forms automatically. Each circle match a > letter (like in a quiz). So if the user select option A in a row, he fills the > first circle. If he select option C in the next ro

Newbie: splitting dictionary definition across two .py files

Hi, I'm fairly new to python. I like to define a big dictionary in two files and use it my main file, build.py I want the definition to go into build_cfg.py and build_cfg_static.py. build_cfg_static.py: target_db = {} target_db['foo'] = 'bar' build_cfg.py target_db['xyz'] = 'abc' In build.py, I

logging producing redundant entries

Hi, I'm using the logging module for the first time. I'm using it from within Zope Extensions. My problem is that, for every event logged, the logger is producing multiple identical entries with the timestamp the same down to the millisecond. Is this something I'm doing wrong? Log snippet:

Re: Find similar images using python

Richie Hindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Thomas] > > How can I use python to find images that looks quite similar? > > Have you looked at http://www.imgseek.net/ ? It's an Open Source Python photo > collection manager that does exactly what you're asking for. Maybe... I don't recall if it h

Re: embed notepad into a frame widget

Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > You are pretty wrong being sure :) Under windows, it is indeed possible to > embed certain applications into others - the related technical term is > conveniently called OLE (Object lining and embedding). Thanks, at least I didnt spend two much time on it :) -Matt --

Re: Doc suggestions (was: Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?)

"Fredrik Lundh" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > The OP points out an ambiguity in the docs, and as usual, > > > > gets told he can't read, etc. How typical. > > > > > > where did anyone tell the OP that he can't read? > > >

Re: Content Management System

Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Water Cooler v2 wrote: > > I know what it is, and yet the knowledge of what a CMS is, is so vague > > that I find myself asking this question every now and then. I've > > googled and read the resources too. However, the knowledge is still not > > clear. It is so

Re: Identifying filled circles in a scanned image

Douglas Douglas wrote: > The problem is that when the scanner takes the pages it > doesn't put it in the same exact position in its bed. There's not a lot of > difference, but there's a little. Your forms should have some reference registration marks or targets in opposite corners. Find these fi

Re: Simple py script to calc folder sizes

Caleb Hattingh wrote: > Your code works on some folders but not others. For example, it works > on my /usr/lib/python2.4 (the example you gave), but on other folders > it terminates early with StopIteration exception on the > os.walk().next() step. > > I haven't really looked at this closely enou

Re: proposed proposal: set.values()

"Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm thinking of proposing that a values method be added to set > objects, analogously with dicts. If x is a set, x.values() would be > the same as list(x). This feels logical, and it would allow unified > tr

Re: Identifying filled circles in a scanned image

First of all. Thanks Claudio and nikie for your fast answers. What I want to do is process the forms automatically. Each circle match a letter (like in a quiz). So if the user select option A in a row, he fills the first circle. If he select option C in the next row, he fills the third circle of t

Re: how to comment lot of lines in python

>>Or there is something else too ?? > > You should use a decent editor that could automatically > comment/uncomment code upon your request. In Vim, you can map a key to do the following: :s/^/# to comment the highlighted lines, and :s/^# to uncomment them. To map them, you c

Re: urllib2 through basic auth'ed proxy

Alejandro Dubrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > The proxy is squid. Python version is 2.3.4 (I read that this version has a > problem in that it introduces an extra return after the authorisation, but > it isn't even getting to that bit). And yes, going through firefox, > everything works

Re: RELEASED Python 2.4.3, final.

"John Salerno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Why would 2.4.4 come out after the final release of 2.5? Code patches are generally applied first to the development branch. Those that merely fix bugs usually get backported to the maintenance branch.* Releasing 2.4

Re: Doc suggestions (was: Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?)

"Terry Reedy" wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > But the perception I get here, from responses like yours, > > is that such suggestions are unwelcome, and unlikely > > to be acted upon. > > FL is not the main doc maintainer. Even if

Re: Doc suggestions (was: Why "class exceptions" are not deprecated?)

"Terry Reedy" wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > But the perception I get here, from responses like yours, > > is that such suggestions are unwelcome, and unlikely > > to be acted upon. > > FL is not the main doc maintainer. Even if

Re: Identifying filled circles in a scanned image

Douglas Douglas schrieb: > Hi everybody. > > I have a paper form that I scan into an image. My user fills some circles in > this paper form using black ink. Every form has ten rows with five circles > each > and the user fills only one circle for each row. > > I was wondering if I could use the P

Re: urllib2 through basic auth'ed proxy

Alejandro Dubrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > How does one connect through a proxy which requires basic authorisation? > The following code, stolen from somewhere, fails with a 407: > [...code involving urllib2.ProxyBasicAuthHandler()...] > Can anyone explain me why this fails, or more i

Re: Identifying filled circles in a scanned image

Douglas Douglas wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I have a paper form that I scan into an image. My user fills some circles in > this paper form using black ink. Every form has ten rows with five circles > each > and the user fills only one circle for each row. > > I was wondering if I could use the Py

proposed proposal: set.values()

I'm thinking of proposing that a values method be added to set objects, analogously with dicts. If x is a set, x.values() would be the same as list(x). This feels logical, and it would allow unified treatment of dicts and sets in some contexts. Any objections? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: how to comment lot of lines in python

Em Qui, 2006-03-30 às 15:21 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > Like in C we comment like > /* > Bunch of lines of code > */ > > Should we use docstring """ """ > > Or there is something else too ?? You should use a decent editor that could automatically comment/uncomment code upon your request

how to comment lot of lines in python

Like in C we comment like /* Bunch of lines of code */ Should we use docstring """ """ Or there is something else too ?? Every help is appreciated. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: any() and all() on empty list?

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No, all(seq) is true if every element in seq is true. Surely that's a > >> more intuitive definition than your definition by what you can't do. > > They are different? > Of course they are different -- they differ in the case of an empty > sequence

Re: PIL ImageDraw line not long enough

Bob Greschke wrote > I've resorted to actually drawing all of the characters of the alphabet on a > graph to avoid having to drag around font files. It's mostly just uppercase > characters, so it's not too bad. > > But I noticed that some of the line segments have to be extended one pixel > longe

Identifying filled circles in a scanned image

Hi everybody. I have a paper form that I scan into an image. My user fills some circles in this paper form using black ink. Every form has ten rows with five circles each and the user fills only one circle for each row. I was wondering if I could use the Python Imaging Library to process these fo

Re: tkinter question

>If you just create >a Toplevel and populate it with widgets, it will just display once the >control is returned to the Tkinter mainloop and no user input will be >needed. Thanks for explaining that. I borrowed the "after" method that you used in your first reply. It seems to do what I want (excep

Re: any() and all() on empty list?

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:28:54 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > No, all(seq) is true if you can't point to a specific element in seq >> > that's false. >> >> No, all(seq) is true if every element in seq is true. Surely that's a >> more intuitive definition

Re: ANN: htmlbuilder.py - another HTML generator

Gerard Flanagan wrote: > In the hope that it may be useful, a simple Html Generator: > > http://gflanagan.net/site/python/htmlbuilder/htmlbuilder.py > > It requires 'elementtree' : > http://www.effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm > > Example: > > html = HtmlBuilder( doctype='strict') > p

Re: Matplotlib: How to set number of ticks on an axis?

> "Caleb" == Caleb Hattingh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Caleb> It seems that the locater() classes are where I should Caleb> look, and there seem to be some defaults in ticker.py: Caleb> class AutoLocator(MaxNLocator): def __init__(self): Caleb> MaxNLocator.__init__(self, nbin

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Tablelist 4.3

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Re: Terminating a subprocess question

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Popen

I am trying to write a script that starts a window process and then continues on to do other testing, but have encountered a little problem. When I start the exe (process to run) I cannot move on past that point in my script. Once started, the process is supposed to run in the background continuous

Re: a hobbyist's dilemma

You may find the attached files of interest. I wrote this PyGame script in order to teach my sons (ages 8 & 10) about some programming concepts. I intentionally avoided any function or class definitions, and tried to use minimal Python concepts. I think it's quite impressive that you can do a

Re: Convert Word .doc to Acrobat .pdf files

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Re: New Python website, new documentation ?

Tim Parkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I was wondering : as there has been a change in python.org website with > >a new design, is it planned for the documentation section to be > >revamped as well ? If yes, would it be just a appearance renewal or > >wo

Matplotlib: How to set number of ticks on an axis?

Hi I tried several Google searches to no avail. I read through pretty much most of the online docs at the matplotlib sourceforge site, but didn't find what I was looking for. I went through the axis.py and ticker.py code today, trying to find out how to set the number of points (ticks) on an axi

Re: ldap usage

> Which LDAP server are you using? You can switch off this behaviour > with OpenLDAP. See man 5 slapd.conf, allow . I don't have anything other than user access. Good to know about this feature, though. You've been very helpful - I really appreciate it. Can you recommend any favorite books

Re: Non-GUI source code browser with file system tree view

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tkinter: not freeing memory like I'd expect

I have a bunch (e.g. 40) of tkinter Text objects in a gui on a linux machine, tracking monitoring info per host. They accumulate up to 500MB of text data (according to /bin/top) over time reading from sockets. I want to release this memory first by clearing all the text contents, but keeping the

Re: ipv6 validation

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Re: python challenge question (string manipulation)

Felipe I get the same results as you. You make a good point about not iterating when it's not needed. I played around with your test code and found some interesting things: 1. enumerate vs. range(len()) has very little overhead (something I have wondered about) In my code, making the change c

Re: any() and all() on empty list?

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, all(seq) is true if you can't point to a specific element in seq > > that's false. > > No, all(seq) is true if every element in seq is true. Surely that's a > more intuitive definition than your definition by what you can't do. They are differen

ANN: htmlbuilder.py - another HTML generator

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Re: Set Windows Environment Variable

Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Fuzzyman wrote: > > > I *believe* that ``SetEnvironmentVariable`` exists in the underlying > > windows API, but that it isn't wrapped by the win32api extension. > > SetEnvironmentVariable does the same thing as assignment to os.environ. > > The only way to set the environmen

Re: GUI in python

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Re: Updated: python ctype question about "access violation reading location 0x5a5a5a5a"

First guess is that you are passing a Python function to something that expects a C function. Try looking at gencb.py in DynWin. -- Want to play tabletop RPGs over the internet? Check out Koboldsoft RPZen:http://www.koboldsoft.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SimpleXMLRPCServer

> I'm doing some experiments with the SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python, > and I've found it to be an excellent way to do high-level network > operations. > > However, is there a way to enable "two-way" communication using XML-RPC? > By that I mean, can the server contact all the clients? To do that yo

Re: Quick Question regarding Frames

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Re: Very stupid question.

On 3/30/06, *Sullivan Zheng* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Wow, seems I am not that supid. Why python does not include this > function in the file object. It is almost a tradition in other > languages... > > import os > > os.stat(path).st

Re: a hobbyist's dilemma

Alex Martelli wrote: > John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >>> Instead of hacking away on your own, I suggest you look around >>> sourceforge and other such repositories of open-source programs: find >... >> Great idea. It would be fun to actually contribute something to the >> co

SimpleXMLRPCServer

Hello everyone, I'm doing some experiments with the SimpleXMLRPCServer in Python, and I've found it to be an excellent way to do high-level network operations. However, is there a way to enable "two-way" communication using XML-RPC? By that I mean, can the server contact all the clients? Thank

Re: Very stupid question.

On 3/30/06, *Sullivan Zheng* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, seems I am not that supid. Why python does not include this > function in the file object. It is almost a tradition in other > languages... > really not elegant or OO. A file isn't an object. You can get a "file

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