Re: Python Projects Continuous Integration

Ziga Seilnacht wrote: > Dave Potts wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just starting a development project in Python having spent time in > > the Java world. I was wondering what tool advice you could give me > > about setting up a continuous integration environment for the python > > code: get the latest

Re: How's python's web scraping capabilities (vs LWP) ...

Check out twill , which is based on mechanize (). Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best way to capture output of another command-line program in Win32?

subprocess gets my vote too. You can do something like: from subprocess import call, Popen, PIPE, STDOUT def run_cmd(cmd): arglist = cmd.split() p = Popen(arglist, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT) output = p.communicate()[0] return (p.returncode, output) rc, output = run_cmd("python

Re: Test driven programming, was Re: VB to Python migration

Thanks for the insightful answer, Magnus. I have a lot of stuff to digest from your message :-) Maybe I'll continue the discussion on the mailing list you mentioned. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Test driven programming, was Re: VB to Python migration

Magnus, I've been writing TextTest tests lately for an application that will be presented at a PyCon tutorial on "Agile development and testing". I have to say that if your application does a lot of logging, then the TextTest tests become very fragile in the presence of changes. So I had to come u

Re: Memory Profiler

See http://pycheesecake.org/wiki/PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy#MiscellaneousPythonTestingTools In particular, PySizer and HeapPy might be what you're looking for. I can't say for sure, since I haven't used these tools myself. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Los Angeles Python Users' Group, anyone?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I was rifling through python.org to see if there was an existing Python > user's group for the Los Angeles area. Doesn't seem like it, so maybe > we should start one? I'm interested in helping with the coordination of > activities etc. > > Since everybody living i

Re: Where can I find an example that uses FTP standard library?

I have some code that looks something like this: from ftplib import FTP ftp = FTP() # connect and login ftp.connect(server_name) ftp.login(user_name, password) cmd = "STOR %s" % filename #"ASCII transfer" l = open(filename) ftp.storlines(cmd, l) #"BIN transfer" l = open(filename, 'rb') ftp.storbi

Re: python + ODBC + Oracle + MySQL - money

Yes, I did run into the difference in the parameter styles, so I deal with that in the database-specific classes. It's not a huge difficulty though. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python + ODBC + Oracle + MySQL - money

In my testing, I need to connect to Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 on various platforms. I have a base class with all the common code, and derived classes for each specific database type using specific database modules such as cxOracle, mxODBC and pyDB2. The derived classes are pretty thin, containing

Re: Web automation with twill

You might want to post your question to the twill mailing list. Info about the list is available at Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: looking for a good python module for MS SQL server

I successfully used mxODBC () Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Well written open source Python apps

This is really synchronicity in action! I started to think yesterday about putting together a project that measures the 'goodness' of Python packages in the PyPI Cheese Shop repository. I call it the "Cheesecake" project. I took the liberty of citing Micah's post in a blog entry that I just posted:

Re: What's the best SNMP interface?

I used pySNMP successfully. I think it's the most active SNMP-related Python project too. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: rrdtool?

I don't know of any, so maybe it's time to roll our sleeves :-) Actually, a while ago I started a python project called perfstats () which uses SNMP to retrieve various system performance metrics, stores them into a Firebird database, then displays them u

Re: rrdtool?

By sheer coincidence I was looking into the same thing today. I just downloaded the latest rrdtool release (rrdtool-1.2.11) and I noticed a /bindings/python subdirectory. I haven't played with it yet, as I still need to install tons of prerequisites before I can build rrdtool. Grig -- http://mai

TurboGears slashdotted

"TurboGears: Python on Rails?" post: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/05/10/10/0650207.shtml?tid=156 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Simulating low bandwidth network on localhost

Try dummynet ( and/or Google for it) Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: testing a website from python

Achim, Have you looked into twill? It's available at Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python script under windows

Jan, Here's what I did to run a Python script (let's call it myscript.py) as a service: 1. Install Win2K Resource Kit. 2. Run instsrv to install srvany.exe as a service with the name myscript: C:\Program Files\Resource Kit\instsrv myscript "C:\Program Files\Resource Kit\srvany.exe" 3. Go to Co

Re: improvements for the logging package

I recommend py.log (part of the py lib) as an example of a pythonic implementation of logging. It uses a keyword-based mechanism and it distinguishes between "producers" of log messages (i.e. your app) and "consumers" of log messages (i.e. stdout, stderr, a database, a mail server, etc.) You can d

Re: stopping a python windows service

Here are 2 recipes from the online Python Cookbook. I've used this one very successfully: . This one seems simpler: Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyt

Re: installing python2.4.1

I had a similar problem when trying to compile Python 2.4.1 on AIX. The configure script complained about not finding 'cc_r'. I simply did 'ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc_r' and that solved my problem. You may consider doing the same for cclplus. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: Art of Unit Testing

The py.test module offers setup/teardown hooks at the method, class and module level. The scenario you're describing would be covered at the module level. See the py.test documentation for more details:

Re: Using win32com for web automation

For Javascript automation, I recommend Selenium (). Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: difficulty connecting to networked oracle database

As the other posters already mentioned, cx_Oracle is the way to go. I'm using it to connect to Oracle not only on Windows, but also on Solaris, Linux and AIX. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Native ODBC access for python on linux?

That's exactly the way to go. In my case, I'm using cx_Oracle to connect from Python to Oracle and the same exact code runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris and soon on AIX. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Native ODBC access for python on linux?

1. Download and install MySQL-python from 2. Try to connect to a MySQL database that you have running. In this example I'm connecting to the bugs database installed with Bugzilla, and I'm connecting as MySQL user root (

Re: Native ODBC access for python on linux?

I concur with Larry. I find that by properly abstracting the database connection code in my own class, I can then use any DB-API-compliant Python module to connect to a variety of databases. I use for example cxOracle to connect to Oracle and kinterbasdb to connect to firebird. I haven't tried conn

Re: Python Installation error on Solaris-9-SPARC

Why don't you donwload the source from python.org? Also, on Solaris tar is sometimes broken (i.e. can't deal with long directory names etc.) You may want to donwload and install gnu tar. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: best options for oracle/python?

Use cx_Oracle: Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Connecting to Firebird database using Kinterbasdb+Python

How is your Firebird database configured -- Classic Server or Super Server? If it's in classic server mode, you don't need to worry about the host portion. You do need to worry about permissions on the database file. I got it to work by making it 664 and owner + group firebird. Grig -- http://ma

Re: utf8 silly question

Salut, Catalin You can first convert your c string to unicode, and in the process specify an encoding that understands non-ASCII characters (if you don't specify an encoding, it will try to use your default, which is most likely ASCII, and you'll get the error you mentioned.). In the following exa

Re: Sending mail from 'current user' in Python

There may have been a reason for the win32 stuff at some pointbut I don't remember and you're right, it does seem like getpass by itself would do the job. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Sending mail from 'current user' in Python

I use this function as a platform-independent way of finding out the current user name: def get_username(): if sys.platform == 'win32': return win32api.GetUserName() else: return getpass.getuser() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python interest group software

Try upcoming.org. In addition to the Web interface, they also offer a REST-ful API that you can use from your own app. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The convenient database engine for a "Distributed" System

I also recommend Firebird. I like the fact that the database is in its own file that can be copied from one platform to another. I use it on Linux, but it works just as well on Windows. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Programming Language for Systems Administrator

In my experience, Python is more Windows-friendly than Perl. Mark Hammond's Python Extensions for Windows are a lifesaver. You can download the package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ or install the ActiveState Python package, which includes the Windows extensions. I use Python for e

SoCal Piggies meeting Tuesday 4/12

The Southern California Python Interest Group (SoCal Piggies) will meet Tuesday April 12 @ 7:30 PM, at the Kerckhoff Marine Lab in Newport Beach. If you're a Pythonista in the area and you're interested in participating, please e-mail socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org and request more info. Thanks,

Re: Establishing connection SSH

Try paramiko: http://www.lag.net/paramiko/ Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: oracle interface

I subscribe to the other posters' opinion: cx_Oracle is what I use on Windows, Linux and Solaris. Works great cross-platform and across Oracle versions (I use it with Oracle 9 and 10, haven't tried 8 yet). Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Web application toolkit recommendation?

Check out http://pyre.third-bit.com/pyweb/index.html Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unittest vs py.test?

py.test intercepts the assert statements before they are optimized away. It's part of the profuse "magic" that py.test does. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: testing -- what to do for testing code with behaviour dependant upon which files exist?

Can't you use the tempfile module to generate unique names for non-existent files and directories? Take a look at http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-tempfile.html -- it works on all supported platforms. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unittest vs py.test?

>From what I know, the PyPy guys already have a unittest-to-py.test translator working, but they didn't check in the code yet. You can send an email to py-dev at codespeak.net and let them know you're interested in this functionality. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: unittest vs py.test?

In my mind, practicing TDD is what matters most. Which framework you choose is a function of your actual needs. The fact that there are 3 of them doesn't really bother me. I think it's better to have a choice from a small number of frameworks rather than have no choice or have a single choice that

Re: Will presentations at PyCon be recorded/streamed?

Is there an official procedure for signing up for presenting a Lightning Talk, except for editing the PyCon05 Wiki page? Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Unittesting for web applications

There's another current thread on c.l.py talking about testing Web applications. Somenone suggested Jython in conjunction with HttpUnit, a combination that worked for me too -- but the name HttpUnit is misleading, since it does functional/black box testing and not unit testing. It beats scraping We

Re: Unit Testing in Python

A great place to start for TDD-related stuff is testdriven.com. On the topic of Python-specific unit testing, there's also a recent thread on the newly-created extreme-python google group: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/extreme-python/browse_thread/thread/f39844c4cf6c844f?tvc=2 Grig htt

Re: Testing web applications

The Jython / HttpUnit combination worked well for me too. There's also maxq (http://maxq.tigris.org/), which looks promising, but I haven't used it yet. Grig http://agiletesting.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python under java

At a command prompt, do "which python" to see where the python binary lives. Then specify the full path to python in your exec() call, instead of just "python". What probably happens is that you don't have the python binary in your PATH when you run exec() from your Java code. Grig -- http://mail

Re: script to automate GUI application (newbie)

Bogdan, If your app is written in Java, take a look at Marathon (http://marathonman.sourceforge.net/). It uses Jython as its scripting language and it's pretty smart about how it does automation (i.e. it doesn't look at screen coordinates, but at control names). It also offers a capture/replay fun

Re: import problems *newbie*

In my experience (as a tester), it is easier to deal with PYTHONPATH than to add the my.pth file to the site-packages directory. The main reason is that I have my custom packages and modules in a directory tree that I deploy on many clients/servers/platforms/OS versions, some running different vers

Re: Importing Problem on Windows

I normall set PYTHONPATH to the parent directory of my module directory tree. If I have my module files in C:\home\mymodules and below, then I set PYTHONPATH to C:\home. This way, I can do "import mymodules" in my code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Importing Problem on Windows

What version of Python are you running on Linux vs. Windows? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: what would you like to see in a 2nd edition Nutshell?

As a tester, my vote goes to extending the "Testing" subsection of the "Testing, debugging and optimizing". I'd like to see more testing tools discussed there. Maybe py.test, PyFIT, and possibly others. Grig -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list