printing table on the command line

2010-04-29 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hello, I'm using the MySQLdb library in python to interface with a mysql database I've created. I have written a command line app which runs from the command line. I have 10 fields and hence, have found that each record spreads over one line. What is the best way to print a table of a database lik

Re: working with laptop battery

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 03:22:11AM +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info > /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state Had a quick look, but that path doesn't seem to exist, I'll look harder on the weekend when I put the script together, because it has to be somewhere. Thanks, Dan --

Re: working with laptop battery

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
I'm not sure I have those files, but I'll look a little harder this weekend when I put together the script. Thanks for your help, Dan On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:23:28PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 05:26:02PM -0800, Chris Reb

Re: working with laptop battery

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 09:19:59PM -0500, Chris Colbert wrote: >You'll need acpi installed: >In [6]: import subprocess Thanks for that code, I'll try putting something together this weekend. Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: working with laptop battery

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 05:26:02PM -0800, Chris Rebert wrote: > It's probably gonna depend on which OS you're running. Which would be...? Sorry, forgot to mention this. I'm running debian linux. Thanks, Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

working with laptop battery

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm constantly working in the command line and need to write a program to give me alerts on my battery. Can someone please tell me what module I should use to access battery information? Looking for something that perhaps makes use of acpi so I can get estimated time left as well as a percenta

Best way to conduct a google search

2009-12-12 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I need to do the following in my program: 1. Conduct a google search, supplying the variable "text" to the search. Is there a google api or something similar I should use? 2. I then need to be able to get the url, of the page, or the html content, so I can dump it to text. Thanks, Dan signa

Re: python and vc numbers

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel Dalton
> Can you make do with the tempfile module? Or you'd need to identify > from an external process which console is locked? Perhaps, I wrote a small hack: - Manually set environment variable TTYNUMBER in .bash_profile - Then use this in the script, to establish what tty I'm working with. Thanks -

Re: python and vc numbers

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:26:14AM -0800, Chris Rebert wrote: > Also, in my quickie newbie experimentation with `screen`, each screen > "window" seems to get a unique tty#. Admittedly I am running OS X Correct (Which creates the problem) > Perhaps if you could explain your problem in greater deta

Re: python and vc numbers

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:20:59PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > That did the trick, thanks, after I append > [-2] Further testing under screen says otherwise -- it seems to give me the tty number, not the virtual console number. Is there any way to figure out what virtual console I'

Re: python and vc numbers

2009-11-30 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 02:21:54PM +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote: > >I use to figure out what tty my program was invoked from? > > Here's one way: > > % python > Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Apr 8 2007, 22:22:18) > [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright",

python and vc numbers

2009-11-28 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I have a very simple problem, but I can't work out the answer. How do I return the current tty number in python? eg. what function/module should I use to figure out what tty my program was invoked from? Thanks -- Cheers, Dan http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ signature.asc Descriptio

Re: python and web pages

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >elinks, links, links2 and do the following. > >1. Open a certain web page and find the first text box on the page, and > >put this text into the form. > >2. Press the submit button, and wait for the result page to load. > >3. Clic

python and web pages

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Here is my situation: I'm using the command line, as in, I'm not starting gnome or kde (I'm on linux.) I have a string of text attached to a variable,. So I need to use one of the browsers on linux, that run under the command line, eg. lynx, elinks, links, links2 and do the following. 1. Open

Re: storing variable value

2009-04-13 Thread Daniel Dalton
Yes. I used a file, thanks. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:30:40AM -0400, Dave Angel wrote: > > > Daniel Dalton wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm writing a program to provide me with battery warnings when my >> battery hits certain levels. It just checks the current level

storing variable value

2009-04-11 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi! I'm writing a program to provide me with battery warnings when my battery hits certain levels. It just checks the current level and does something. I plan to call it from a a cron job. But If the cron runs every minute, warnings every minute would be rather annoying. so is there a way to make

Re: What's the difference between generating a value and returning a value?

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:12:19PM -0700, grocery_stocker wrote: > So what's the difference between generating a value and returning a > value? Well when you return, you would use the "return" keyword, I would imagine... I guess generating could mean many things, you can generate a value by operat

Re: searching strings

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 06:24:24PM -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > Normalize the case of the strings: > > i.lower() in j.lower() Too easy, thanks very much! Cheers, Daniel. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

searching strings

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I'm writing a program where I search a variable (path), and see if it contains the whole string of variable name so: if name in path: else: One question about this, how can I make it do exactly what it's doing now, except ignore case? eg. if I do this: i="A" j="ab" i in j should

Re: NEWB: dividing numbers

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:08:16AM +0100, Lo wrote: > I just tried python first time. > > 2/3 > > the result is zero That's because your dividing an int by an int to an int. The definition of an int is a "whole number". So just use floating point I think it's called, this should work, and d

Re: help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
> or like this: > > print '\r'+str(percent), > > Then make sure it gets sent out, like this: > > sys.stdout.flush() Hey! Thanks very much, that did the trick! Thanks to everyone that replied, I discovered converting to str was crutial to actually print anything. :) Cheers, Daniel. -- http:/

help with printing to stdout...

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, I've got a program here that prints out a percentage of it's completion. Currently with my implimentation it prints like this: 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% etc taking up lots and lots of lines of output... So, how can I make it write the percentage on the same line eg. while working: print percent every