Re: printing raw postscript data on windows

2006-07-14 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to print raw postscript data on windows. >win32print should do the work like this: > > h=win32print.OpenPrinter(name) > win32print.StartDocPrinter(h, 1, ("", "", "RAW")) > win32print.WritePrinter(h, file("p.

Re: Hard time with installing MySQLdb for Python on Linux

2006-07-14 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "gmax2006" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am having hard time with installing MySQLdb on Linux. ... >My Linux is "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant)" Why don't you just use yum to install python-mysql or whatever the package is called, and have it au

Re: Compiling Python using the Portland Group compiler

2006-07-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Konrad Hinsen wrote: > I am trying to install Python 2.4.3 on an AMD Opteron system using > the Portland Group's compiler (pgcc). Using > > I finally managed to obtain an executable that would start and work, > but it fails a couple of test cases: ... > Has anyone encountered such failures before?

InteractiveConsole History on Linux

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Spencer
Why does code.InteractiveConsole support command history on Windows, but not in a Gnome terminal (all I get is ^[[A^[[B)? Or does it not support history at all, and the Windows console is implementing it's own? Is there any way to get command history working with InteractiveConsole on Linux? C

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

2006-07-14 Thread Terry Reedy
The problem with understanding augmented assignment is that it directs the compiler and interpreter to do one or maybe two mostly invisible optimizations. To me, the effective meaning of 'evalutating once versus twice' is most easily seen in the byte code generated by what is, remember, the r

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ANN: Urwid 0.9.5 - Console UI Library

2006-07-14 Thread Ian Ward
Announcing Urwid 0.9.5 -- Urwid home page: http://excess.org/urwid/ Tarball: http://excess.org/urwid/urwid-0.9.5.tar.gz About this release: === This release adds support for the alternate character set with DEC special and line drawing characters. Ur

Getting focused window of another app

2006-07-14 Thread Jim Lewis
Anyone know how to get the caption of the window currently in focus in whatever app is in use? If I am using Excel, for example, I want my python app to know that Excel is currently being used. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Deferred imports

2006-07-14 Thread Justin Azoff
Tom Plunket wrote: > I'm using this package that I can't import on startup, instead needing > to wait until some initialization takes place so I can set other > things up so that I can subsequently import the package and have the > "startup needs" of that package met. [...] > So as y'all might gues

Re: When writing text. . .

2006-07-14 Thread Gerhard Fiedler
On 2006-07-14 18:05:56, Ivan Shevanski wrote: > Hey I'm pretty new to python and I have a question. I'm trying to write: > "[BOOT] > run=C:\windows\aawin.bat" > > in my win.ini > So I went about it like this: > > win = open('C:\windows\win.ini', 'a') > win.write('[BOOT]') > win.write('\n') > wi

math symbols not displaying

2006-07-14 Thread Andrew Dabrowski
I'm working on a simple Python program, with Tkinter, and I need to display the math symbols for set union and intersection, in unicode \N{N-ARY UNION} and \N{N-ARY INTERSECTION}. Everything was displaying correctly (when I ran the program) until I changed my OS distribution from SuSE to Ubuntu

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Smith
Marshall wrote... > I am having a hard time with this very broad definition of aliasing. > Would we also say that a[1+1] and a[2] are aliases? It seems > to me, above, that we have only a, and with only one variable > there can be no aliasing. The problem with this (and with the relational one as

Re: When writing text. . .

2006-07-14 Thread barberomarcelo
Or: win.write(r'run=C:\windows\aawin.bat') The r before the string makes it a "raw" string, where \ are not interpreted as escape characters. Marcelo Daniel Nogradi ha escrito: > > Hey I'm pretty new to python and I have a question. I'm trying to write: > > "[BOOT] > > run=C:\windows\aawin.ba

Python on RedHat AS 2.1?

2006-07-14 Thread Jeremy Winters
Installable package?Any ideas?Thanks in advance,Jeremy Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

WSDL and SOAP?

2006-07-14 Thread tobiah
I need to link an event registration site to a housing site. From what I can gather, I make a call to some url that ends in WSDL, and get some XML back from the housing site. Now I'm supposed to make this into an object and call it here and there through SOAP? Is that how it works? Is this

Re: String handling and the percent operator

2006-07-14 Thread Erik Max Francis
Tom Plunket wrote: > I know that the message didn't have enough formatters, that's why I > asked. (Although I would have assumed that the generator would get > automatically converted to a sequence that was consumable by the > interpolation operator...) That's because:: aFormatString %

Re: String handling and the percent operator

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Plunket
Erik Max Francis wrote: > > For enrichment purposes, is there a way to do this sort of thing with > > a generator? E.g. something like: > > > > def SentenceGenerator(): > >words = ['I', 'have', 'been', 'to', 'the', 'fair'] > >for w in words: > > yield w > > > > message = "%s %s %

Re: String handling and the percent operator

2006-07-14 Thread Erik Max Francis
Tom Plunket wrote: > Excellent. Thanks. Has this been around long? I "learned" Python in > the 1.6 days iirc, but haven't done much except simple scripting with > it since... Yep. Been around since at least 1.5.x. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San

Re: String handling and the percent operator

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Plunket
Justin Azoff wrote: > Of course.. > > I should read the python documentation at > http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html Excellent. Thanks. Has this been around long? I "learned" Python in the 1.6 days iirc, but haven't done much except simple scripting with it since... -tom! -- h

Deferred imports

2006-07-14 Thread Tom Plunket
I'm using this package that I can't import on startup, instead needing to wait until some initialization takes place so I can set other things up so that I can subsequently import the package and have the "startup needs" of that package met. Specifically this has to do with the interaction between

Re: When writing text. . .

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Nogradi
> Hey I'm pretty new to python and I have a question. I'm trying to write: > "[BOOT] > run=C:\windows\aawin.bat" > > in my win.ini > So I went about it like this: > > win = open('C:\windows\win.ini', 'a') > win.write('[BOOT]') > win.write('\n') > win.write('run=C:\windows\aawin.bat') > > I expecte

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

2006-07-14 Thread Gerhard Fiedler
On 2006-07-14 16:07:28, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>AP> 2a) In case you answer yes to question (1). Can you explain me how >>AP> I have to read the language reference in order to deduce this >>AP> is indeed the way things should be understood. > > Just read what it says. `It is only evaluat

Hard time with installing MySQLdb for Python on Linux

2006-07-14 Thread gmax2006
Hi, I am having hard time with installing MySQLdb on Linux. My Python version is 2.3. I have downloaded "MySQL-python-1.2.1_p2.tar.gz" from sourceforge. The README file asks for MySQL installation. My MySql server is on another box. That is why I think I should to install just the MySql client (a

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Marshall schrieb: > Joachim Durchholz wrote: >> You can have aliasing without pointers; e.g. arrays are fully sufficient. >> If i = j, then a [i] and a [j] are aliases of the same object. > > I am having a hard time with this very broad definition of aliasing. > Would we also say that a[1+1] and a

Re: Python strings outside the 128 range

2006-07-14 Thread Gerhard Fiedler
On 2006-07-14 12:07:12, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > umm. what are we talking about here, really ? Aha! You took a big load off my chest -- this is pretty much what I thought should be there :) What I was talking about is that Diez responded with a clear "no" to my question whether print would do the

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Marshall schrieb: > Joachim Durchholz wrote: >> Marshall schrieb: >>> What about my example of SQL? Mutation, no pointers, no aliasing. >>> Yet: useful. >> Sorry, but SQL does have aliasing. > > Well. I suppose we do not have an agreed upon definition > of aliasing, so it is hard to evaluate eithe

Re: wxPython Grid XY Coordinates question

2006-07-14 Thread Will McGugan
Kiran wrote: > Hello All, > I am writing an app in wxPython using a grid. I need to be able to > recognize what cell in the grid the user is hovering over with the > mouse. How to do this? > I tried XYToCell(x, y), but that doesnt work properly because it > thinks that mouse position (0, 0) i

When writing text. . .

2006-07-14 Thread Ivan Shevanski
Hey I'm pretty new to python and I have a question.  I'm trying to write:"[BOOT]run=C:\windows\aawin.bat"in my win.iniSo I went about it like this:win = open('C:\windows\win.ini', 'a') win.write('[BOOT]')win.write('\n')win.write('run=C:\windows\aawin.bat')I expected that to work, but instead of C:\

Re: {} for set notation

2006-07-14 Thread Carl Banks
tac-tics wrote: > Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > > I really like the set notation idea. Now that sets are first class > > "citizens" along with dicts, lists and tuples I think they should be > > used when it makes sense to use them > > In actual usage, though, how often is it strictly required one uses a

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Joe Marshall
Marshall wrote: > Joe Marshall wrote: > > Marshall wrote: > > > > > > Consider the following Java fragment: > > > > > > void foo() { > > > int i = 0; > > > int j = 0; > > > > > > // put any code here you want > > > > > > j = 1; > > > i = 2; > > > // check value of j here. It is still 1

Re: How to start more than one process at the same time?

2006-07-14 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> "Dirk Hagemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (DH) wrote: >DH> Hi! >DH> How can I start several jobs at the same time with python? I want to >DH> collect data from some servers and I don't want to wait until the first >DH> server is finished. These jobs should run parallel to save time. Use the subpr

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

2006-07-14 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AP) wrote: >AP> Well I'll start on an possitive note and accept this. Now I'd like you >AP> to answer some questions. >AP> 1) Do you think the langauge reference makes it clear that this is how >AP>the reader has to understand things. Yes. >AP> 2a) I

Re: instances

2006-07-14 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
Quenton, What kind of instances do you want to create? An instance has to be an instance of something. You mention creating instances "of a method", what do you mean by that? Anyway, assuming you are new to Python here is a basic intro about objects and classes: Think of a class as a blueprint an

Re: instances

2006-07-14 Thread Simon Forman
Quenton Bonds wrote: > Hello > I am trying to understand the abilities and limitation of creating an > instance. First I will give you my understanding then please steer me > in the right direction. > Wow, you've got it nearly completely comprehensively backwards. > Abiities > 1. The two ways t

Re: Byte array question

2006-07-14 Thread Dan Winsor
Nevermind. Did it in Java. Thanks anyway to all who gave suggestions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread gregarican
Or Python on the Zaurus, which I used to develop a wifi CRM app on a group of refurb Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 units. Here's a link to the Python implementation on the Z --> http://starship.python.net/~hinsen/Zaurus/. Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote: > Jack wrote: > > Is there a Python packaging that is spec

Re: instances

2006-07-14 Thread Paddy
Quenton Bonds wrote: > Hello > I am trying to understand the abilities and limitation of creating an > instance. First I will give you my understanding then please steer me > in the right direction. > > Abiities > 1. The two ways to create an instance is def method(self) & > __int__(self, other,

Re: Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread Grzegorz Makarewicz
Jack wrote: > Is there a Python packaging that is specifically for > embedded systems? ie, very small and configurable so the > user gets to select what modules to install? > > For Linux-based embedded systems in particular? > > I'm thinking of running it on the Linksys's Linux-based open > source

Re: Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread gregarican
Here's an URL to a project that appears to be dated from 2004 --> http://skreak.com/wrt54g/python.php. Jack wrote: > Is there a Python packaging that is specifically for > embedded systems? ie, very small and configurable so the > user gets to select what modules to install? > > For Linux-based em

Re: Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread James Thiele
Jack wrote: > ...snip... > If Python is not the best candidate for embedded systems because > of the size, what (scripting) language would you recommend? > TCL is fairly popular in the embedded space. Fairly small footprint. The syntax is not to everyone's taste. -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Python WSDL Generation Tools

2006-07-14 Thread Chris Lambacher
You will probably have more result on the pywebsvcs-talk mailing list. http://pywebsvcs.sf.net/ That said, ZSI will generate code from wsdl. I am not sure what it is you are asking for, but this is probably what you actually want. -Chris On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:15:45AM +0530, Vedanta Barooa

Re: instances

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Quenton Bonds wrote: > I am trying to understand the abilities and limitation of creating an > instance. First I will give you my understanding then please steer me > in the right direction. > > Abiities > 1. The two ways to create an instance is def method(self) & > __int__(self, other, ins

dict = no ordered keys = no slicing

2006-07-14 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
>I have a tree class, a tree acts like a dictionary, but when you > iterate over it, it always iterates over the keys in order. Antoon, First of all there is a distinction between ordered and un-ordered data types. You can only slice ordered data types. Lists and tuples are ordered while the keys

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
That is why we have PEPs and people who read forums and, of course, GvR. At this point it seems that Python is mainstream enough that it probably shouldn't be modified too much but it is also 'fresh' enough to accept some modifications and new ideas. The bottom line is that the more people are in

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
A.M. Kuchling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If Python 3000 turns into a let's-try-all-sorts-of-goofy-new-ideas > language, at least some of those ideas will turn out to have been > mistakes, and then we'll need a Python 3000++ to clean things up. And I also think "we" will lose some developers in

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a tree class, a tree acts like a dictionary, but when you > iterate over it, it always iterates over the keys in order. This > makes it usefull to iterate over a slice. So it would be usefull > if methods like keys, values and items could take a sl

Re: activestate vs enpython

2006-07-14 Thread Robert Hicks
mclaugb wrote: > Um, i didnt see at the "more information" link whether "numpy, > numarray, matplotlib, scipy, and scientific python" was included . > There's your answer... :Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

instances

2006-07-14 Thread Quenton Bonds
Hello I am trying to understand the abilities and limitation of creating an instance. First I will give you my understanding then please steer me in the right direction. Abiities 1. The two ways to create an instance is def method(self) & __int__(self, other, instances,...) 2. By creating a

Re: {} for set notation

2006-07-14 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
tic-tacs, But how often does one use a list or a tuple when a set is actually more meaningful? -- Probably more than expected, because traditionally comming from C and in the older Python versions there were no sets. A prime example are the keys of the dictionary. They are a _set_ not a list. If

Re: Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread Carl J. Van Arsdall
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-07-14, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a Python packaging that is specifically for >> embedded systems? ie, very small and configurable so the >> user gets to select what modules to install? >> >> For Linux-based embedded systems in particular? >> >>

Re: activestate vs enpython

2006-07-14 Thread mclaugb
Um, i didnt see at the "more information" link whether "numpy, numarray, matplotlib, scipy, and scientific python" was included . "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mclaugb wrote: > >> does anyone know if the activestate distribution has all of the numpy

printing raw postscript data on windows

2006-07-14 Thread Uwe Schmitt
Hi, I am trying to print raw postscript data on windows. win32print should do the work like this: h=win32print.OpenPrinter(name) win32print.StartDocPrinter(h, 1, ("", "", "RAW")) win32print.WritePrinter(h, file("p.ps").read()) win32print.EndDocPrinter(h) win32print.ClosePrinter(h)

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Antoon Pardon
On 2006-07-14, Lawrence Oluyede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> These are just some ideas. Whether they fit into python or not I will >> leave to the developers. > > I'm not a Python pro. but: > >> 1) Literal slices, in a sense we already have these, but t

Re: Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-07-14, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a Python packaging that is specifically for > embedded systems? ie, very small and configurable so the > user gets to select what modules to install? > > For Linux-based embedded systems in particular? > > I'm thinking of running it on the L

Re: time.clock()

2006-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-07-14, Tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I "man 3 clock" and notice: > > The value returned is the CPU time used so far as a clock_t; to get > the number >of seconds used, divide by CLOCKS_PER_SEC. > > So, I'm wondering how to get that value from python. What valu

Re: activestate vs enpython

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
mclaugb wrote: > does anyone know if the activestate distribution has all of the numpy, > numarray, matplotlib, scipy, and scientific python? their website does not > say what it includes. http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/more_information.plex -- http://mail.python.org/mail

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Darren New
Andreas Rossberg wrote: > OK, this is interesting. I don't know Hermes, is this sort of like a > dynamically checked equivalent of linear or uniqueness typing? I'm not sure what linear or uniqueness typing is. It's typestate, and if I remember correctly the papers I read 10 years ago, the folks

activestate vs enpython

2006-07-14 Thread mclaugb
does anyone know if the activestate distribution has all of the numpy, numarray, matplotlib, scipy, and scientific python? their website does not say what it includes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python for Embedded Systems?

2006-07-14 Thread Jack
Is there a Python packaging that is specifically for embedded systems? ie, very small and configurable so the user gets to select what modules to install? For Linux-based embedded systems in particular? I'm thinking of running it on the Linksys's Linux-based open source router WRT54G. It has 4MB

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread rossberg
Marshall wrote: > Andreas Rossberg wrote: > > > > And note that even with second-class state you can still have aliasing > > issues - you just need mutable arrays and pass around indices. Keys in > > databases are a more general form of the same problem. > > So for array a, you would claim that "a[

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread A.M. Kuchling
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:45:07 +0200, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> This attitude may have some downsides. The Python developers don't know >> everything, other people can have some experience of computer languages >> too. > > "some experience of

Re: time.clock()

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Tobiah wrote: > import time > > while 1: > print time.clock() > > This gave me a stream of floats, the integer part of which > only updated about every three seconds. Now, the manual > also states: > > The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning > of ``pr

Re: time.clock()

2006-07-14 Thread Benjamin Niemann
Tobiah wrote: > The manual says: > > On Unix, return the current processor time as a > floating point number expressed in seconds. > > So I ran this program: > > #!/usr/bin/python > > import time > > while 1: > print time.clock() > > > > This gave me a stream of floats, the integer

Re: time.clock()

2006-07-14 Thread El Duderino
Tobiah wrote: > Am I barking up the wrong tree? I don't think so, time.clock() has always worked fine for me. You can also try time.time(). It is not as precise, but it might be sufficient for your needs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This attitude may have some downsides. The Python developers don't know > everything, other people can have some experience of computer languages > too. "some experience of computer languages" != "experience of language design and implementation" as long as most of th

Re: {} for set notation

2006-07-14 Thread tac-tics
Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > I really like the set notation idea. Now that sets are first class > "citizens" along with dicts, lists and tuples I think they should be > used when it makes sense to use them In actual usage, though, how often is it strictly required one uses a set over a list? It is sim

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
> The real problems with the Py3k list seem to be associated with a number > of people who, despite having had little apparent connection to the > language until now, have joined the list and started making > inappropriate suggestions, which then have to be (patiently) rejected. Steve, What does

Re: How to start more than one process at the same time?

2006-07-14 Thread utabintarbo
Look into the subprocess module. Possibly relevant link follows: http://docs.python.org/lib/node244.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ie.ExecWB(40004, 2, 0, 0)

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Etayki wrote: > Thanks for the previous response. Now I want to do something similar: > > ie.ExecWB(IDM_SELECTALL, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER) > > However, I don't have the values for the above constants either, and I > don't know how to import them. Any ideas? hint: google often picks up sou

time.clock()

2006-07-14 Thread Tobiah
The manual says: On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. So I ran this program: #!/usr/bin/python import time while 1: print time.clock() This gave me a stream of floats, the integer part of which only updated abou

having a problem with an instance of a method.

2006-07-14 Thread john . mcginnis
I wanted to dig a little deeper understanding of Classes, Methods and Instances. However I get this - ' AClassA instance has no attribute' as an error when I call the method I am using as a learning tool. Here's the code, from hammer.py -

{} for set notation

2006-07-14 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
I really like the set notation idea. Now that sets are first class "citizens" along with dicts, lists and tuples I think they should be used when it makes sense to use them A keyset of a dictionary should be viewed as a set not a list because it is a key_set_ after all. Also sets should get back th

Re: imaplib question - answering my own question

2006-07-14 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Laszlo Nagy írta: > Laszlo Nagy írta: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to write a very simple program that moves all messages from >> INBOX into another folder. >> I'm not sure what am I doing wrong. This is a very simple task. I >> believe I need to call these methods: >> >> - search -> get all

Re: searching for strings (in a tuple) in a string

2006-07-14 Thread Simon Forman
Simon Forman wrote: ... > I usually use this with assert statements when I need to check a > sequence. Rather than: > > for something in something_else: assert expression > > I say > > assert False not in (expression for something in something_else) > > This way the whole assert statement will be r

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Marshall
Joachim Durchholz wrote: > > You can have aliasing without pointers; e.g. arrays are fully sufficient. > If i = j, then a [i] and a [j] are aliases of the same object. I am having a hard time with this very broad definition of aliasing. Would we also say that a[1+1] and a[2] are aliases? It seems

ie.ExecWB(40004, 2, 0, 0)

2006-07-14 Thread Etayki
Thanks for the previous response. Now I want to do something similar: ie.ExecWB(IDM_SELECTALL, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER) However, I don't have the values for the above constants either, and I don't know how to import them. Any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

wxPython Grid XY Coordinates question

2006-07-14 Thread Kiran
Hello All, I am writing an app in wxPython using a grid. I need to be able to recognize what cell in the grid the user is hovering over with the mouse. How to do this? I tried XYToCell(x, y), but that doesnt work properly because it thinks that mouse position (0, 0) is the first cell in the g

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Marshall
Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Marshall schrieb: > > void foo() { > > int i = 0; > > int j = 0; > > j = 1; > > i = 2; > > // check value of j here. It is still 1, no matter what you filled > > // in above. > > // The assignment to i cannot be made to affect the value of j. > > } > > > >

Weird platform dependent error: Using pty.fork()

2006-07-14 Thread spacelabstudio
Hi, I'm observing some weird behavior and have written the following test program to demonstrate. This works under cygwin/WinXP but not Gentoo(kernel 2.6): huh.py --- import pty,os,sys # Fork ( pid, fd ) = pty.fork() if pid == 0: # Child thread pr

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Marshall
Andreas Rossberg wrote: > Marshall wrote: > > > > After all, what are the alternatives? Purely-functional > > languages remove themselves from a large class of > > problems that I consider important: data management. > > Maybe, but I have yet to see how second-class variables are really more > adeq

Re: How to start more than one process at the same time?

2006-07-14 Thread dbandler
Have you considered a multi-threaded solution? The following websites offer reasonable examples: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python/Threading http://www.wellho.net/solutions/python-python-threads-a-first-example.html -Derek Dirk Hagemann wrote: > Hi! > > How can I start several job

Re: What is a type error?

2006-07-14 Thread Marshall
Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Marshall schrieb: > > What about my example of SQL? Mutation, no pointers, no aliasing. > > Yet: useful. > > Sorry, but SQL does have aliasing. Well. I suppose we do not have an agreed upon definition of aliasing, so it is hard to evaluate either way. I would propose usi

Re: attaching debugger to runinng python program

2006-07-14 Thread olsongt
alf wrote: > Bill Pursell wrote: > > Now, in another shell, > > % gdb > > (gdb) attach 54321 > > > > Thx for the reply. But I wish to debug the python program, not python > interpreter itself. I haven't used this, but it looks like it's worth a try: http://hapdebugger.sourceforge.net/ -- http:

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread bearophileHUGS
Steve Holden: > The real problems with the Py3k list seem to be associated with a number > of people who, despite having had little apparent connection to the > language until now, have joined the list and started making > inappropriate suggestions, which then have to be (patiently) rejected. This

Re: EuroPython 2006 and Py3.0

2006-07-14 Thread Lawrence Oluyede
Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are just some ideas. Whether they fit into python or not I will > leave to the developers. I'm not a Python pro. but: > 1) Literal slices, in a sense we already have these, but they are >limited to indexing. You can't do something like fun(::)

Re: Python strings outside the 128 range

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > Anyway, it seems that anything non-ASCII is a bit problematic and needs > "manual" handling of the runtime environment encoding. Seems a bit odd, > given the worldwide distribution of Python... I would have thought that > such a rather basic task like printing an accented

Widestudio Users?

2006-07-14 Thread gregarican
Just curious if anyone out there uses Python programming in the Widestudio (http://www.widestudio.org) GUI IDE toolkit. I have looked into it when running into some portability limitations trying certain GUI tookits for Ruby, but couldn't get immersed into Widestudio. Since I use Python as well I w

Tix Tree open/close issue

2006-07-14 Thread Sorin Schwimmer
It works. Thanks Rob. Sorin __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python strings outside the 128 range

2006-07-14 Thread Gerhard Fiedler
On 2006-07-14 10:52:22, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: Will print take care of encoding translation according to the encoding used in the target console? >>> >>> Of course not. AFAIK there is no way figuring out which encoding the >>> target console supports. The best you can do is to offer an

Re: wxPython Grid Cell change question

2006-07-14 Thread Kiran
Never mind, I used 2 different binds for the 2 different situations and it worked. thanks for looking anyhow. -- Kiran Kiran wrote: > Hello All, > I created a grid, where I register events every time the user changes > an existing value inside the grid control. Right now, I am using the > event:

Re: Tix.Grid patch

2006-07-14 Thread klappnase
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: > > if you'd spent enough time clicking around on python.org, you might have ended > up on this page: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470 > > (it's not obvious how to get there, so it's probably easiest if you just > click on the > above link ;

Re: imaplib question

2006-07-14 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Laszlo Nagy írta: > Hello, > > I'm trying to write a very simple program that moves all messages from > INBOX into another folder. > I'm not sure what am I doing wrong. This is a very simple task. I > believe I need to call these methods: > > - search -> get all message UIDs in the INBOX > - co

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Richie Hindle
[Fredrik] > oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions. Even when I'm using ctypes I use win32con for the constants, unless there's some special reason why I need the code to be independent of pywin32. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Richie Hindle
[Etayki] > OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3. > But where can I find some documentation for that? ShowWindow is a Win32 API call, so Googling within msdn.microsoft.com will usually get you straight to the relevant documentation: http://www.google.com/search?q=S

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
>> How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined? > > by grepping through the Windows header files to see what the corresponding > value is, and using that value to set a Python variable in your script oops. thought you were using ctypes, not the pythonwin extensions. see richie's reply for pythonwin

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"Etayki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to > call ShowWindow to maximize it: > > ie = Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application') > handler = ie.HWND > ie.Visible = 1 > win32gui.ShowWindow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE) > > But then I get this

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Etayki
OK, so it it turns out, the window will maximize when SW_MAXIMIZE =3. But where can I find some documentation for that? Etayki wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to > call ShowWindow to maximize it: > > ie = Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application')

Re: undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Richie Hindle
[Etayki] > How do I get SW_MAXIMIZE to be defined? It's in win32con. Like this: >>> from win32con import * >>> SW_MAXIMIZE 3 -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

undefined SW_MAXIMIZE for ShowWindow function

2006-07-14 Thread Etayki
Hi! I'm trying to maximize a IE window. I have a handler and I'm trying to call ShowWindow to maximize it: ie = Dispatch('InternetExplorer.Application') handler = ie.HWND ie.Visible = 1 win32gui.ShowWindow(handler, SW_MAXIMIZE) But then I get this error: 'SW_MAXIMIZE' is not defined The functio

Re: Python strings outside the 128 range

2006-07-14 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
Sybren Stuvel schrieb: > Diez B. Roggisch enlightened us with: >> Of course not. AFAIK there is no way figuring out which encoding the >> target console supports. The best you can do is to offer an option >> that allwos selection of the output encoding. > > You can use the LANG environment variabl

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