Re: Syslog

2007-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
greg wrote: > Could anyone tell me how I could syslog to a specific log (e.g. /var/ > log/daemon.log, /var/log/syslog.log...)? > > Thanks very much in advance! It's up to your syslogd to route messages into particular files, based on their facility and/or priority. Check out /etc/syslog.conf or

Re: SafeConfigParser can set unsafe values

2007-07-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Matimus wrote: >> I agree, but that was a trivial example to demonstrate the problem. >> Writing the file out to disk writes it exactly as set(), causing a get() >> to fail just the same later. > > No... The above statement is not true. Yes, it is. Whatever you set gets written out directly. Your

Re: SafeConfigParser can set unsafe values

2007-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Matimus wrote: >> Should SafeConfigParser.set() be escaping automatically? > > It seems like that would be a nice feature. However, may I offer up > that if you are setting an option and then later on getting that value > back in the same program, you probably should have used some other > storage

SafeConfigParser can set unsafe values

2007-07-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
SafeConfigParser is supposed to be safer than ConfigParser, but calling set with a string value containing '%' generates exceptions when you get() it back. Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 25 2007, 21:31:46) [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "cr

Re: Integer division

2007-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jun 7, 2:15 pm, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> I have two integers and I want to divide one by another, and want to >>> get an integer result which is the higher

Re: Integer division

2007-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > I have two integers and I want to divide one by another, and want to > get an integer result which is the higher side whenever the result is > a fraction. > 3/2 => 1 # Usual behavior > some_func(3, 2) => 2 # Wanted > > Any easier solution other than int(m

Verify server certificate in HTTPS transaction

2007-06-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, I'm fetching some files over HTTPS from Python and I want to verify the server certificate. (Not just the name etc provided in certificate.) How can I get access to this information? urllib2 doesn't seem to provide it. Even a raw SSL socket only appears to provide access to the CN, OU etc i