Sys.exit() does not fully exit

p(1) print 'Done' sys.exit(0) When x is typed, everything does shut down but the main script never fully ends. Is there any way to get it to quit? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pull Last 3 Months

Is there a module that can pull str values for say the last 3 months? Something like: print lastMonths(3) ['Sep', 'Aug', 'Jul'] Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Pull Last 3 Months

Is there a module that can pull str values for say the last 3 months? Something like: print lastMonths(3) ['Sep', 'Aug', 'Jul'] Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Decimal formatting

Cant believe I have to post this and get help... and can't believe I couldnt Google it reasonably well enough... I need to take a float variable and have it display as a string to always have two decimal places: 12. -> 12.33 1.0 -> 1.00 etc... Anyone willing to help with this one? thanks, H

Re: How to create a single executable of a Python program

g it with Linux/Unix, cx_freeze is the only way i know to get this done and even then it may have the same limitations. If you're trying to hide/proprietize code, you may want to use pyobfuscate. Good Luck Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python ODBC

Is there a Python odbc module that will work on Linux? I have a jdbc connection to a DB2 server. I am looking hopefully for an open source solution and not a commercial one. Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Lame wrapper for Python

Is there any type of lame_enc.dll wrapper for Python that's available? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catching an unknown error

On Mar 23, 9:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 23, 8:16 am, "Harlin Seritt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Using the code below: > > > ---BEGIN CODE--- > > > value = raw_input("Type a divisor: ") > > try: >

Catching an unknown error

Using the code below: ---BEGIN CODE--- value = raw_input("Type a divisor: ") try: value = int(value) print "42 / %d = %d" % (value, 42/value) except ValueError: print "I can't convert the value to an integer" except ZeroDivisionError: print "Your value should not be zero" ex

Re: Convert to binary and convert back to strings

On Feb 21, 7:12 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harlin Seritt wrote: > > Hi... > > > I would like to take a string like 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius' > > and write it to a file in binary forms -- this way a user cannot read > &g

Re: Convert to binary and convert back to strings

On Feb 21, 7:02 pm, "Colin J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harlin Seritt wrote: > > Hi... > > > I would like to take a string like 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius' > > and write it to a file in binary forms -- this way a user cannot re

Convert to binary and convert back to strings

Hi... I would like to take a string like 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius' and write it to a file in binary forms -- this way a user cannot read the string in case they were try to open in something like ascii text editor. I'd also like to be able to read the binary formed data back into string

Logging errors to a file

Is there any way to automatically log errors that occur within an executed script to a file? Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Getting a class name

Hi, How does one get the name of a class from within the class code? I tried something like this as a guess: self.__name__ Obviously it didn't work. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Importing from upper directory

I have a script that I want to import called upper.py. It is 2 directories above the script that will call it - i'll call that one main.py. How am I able to import a script in a directory that is above it? Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to determine what exceptions a method might raise?

Hi Ed, Generally checking the sources give a very good clue as to what exceptions the interpreter can raise. Look around _builtins_ for this. Harlin Seritt Ed Jensen wrote: > I'm really enjoying using the Python interactive interpreter to learn > more about the language. It'

Re: where is python on linux?

Hi Frank, Usually "Python" is installed in /usr/lib/python[VER] but you should be able to call up /usr/bin/python without any difficulty. Harlin Seritt Frank Potter wrote: > I installed fedora core 6 and it has python installed. > But the question is, where is the executable

Finding web host headers

Is there any way to fetch a website's host/version headers using Python? Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Valid SQL?

I am using the exact same query string generated and it works when i type it in the MySQL client but doesn't work when using the MySQLdb module. :( -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Valid SQL?

ot;, line 33, in defau lterrorhandler raise errorclass, errorvalue _mysql_exceptions.ProgrammingError: (1064, "You have an error in your SQL syntax ; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right s yntax to use near 'values) values('Sat Apr 15 08:5

Valid SQL?

I have this string that I am sending via a Cursor.execute() using MySQLdb: insert into table Ping82_eb13__elearn__ihost__com (`dateTime`, `values`) values( "Fri May 12 11:39:02 2006", "1") Does anyone see anything wrong with this SQL syntax? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- ht

How to append to a dictionary

I have some code here: groups = {'IRISH' : 'green', 'AMERICAN' : 'blue'} I want to add another key: 'ITALIAN' : 'orange' How do I append this to 'groups'? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's The Best Editor for python

Was actually going to throw in jEdit for the category of what's good on both platforms... For someone who despises Java, I actually like it. :-) Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Suggestion for Web App

"Why not just use static HTML for the static content ?" Makes sense... now, what about for having the portal capabilities (users log in, save profiles, etc)... what would be best for that? I really don't think though that a CMS is necessary. Does anyone know of a Python forum package similar to ph

Re: What's The Best Editor for python

know... strange choices (especially Kate) but they both do what I need them to do. :-) Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Caching in memory for Apache

"memory." Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Suggestion for Web App

with this or should they use something more robust like DB2 (IBM shop)? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mascyma

You'll almost certainly need to take a look at mascyma's support facilities: support web page, forum, etc (provided they do indeed exist). Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Get Root access in Linux?

sudo is something of a quick fix. Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python CGI not working in Firefox but does in IE

Ack... I'm an idiot... Thanks Richard -- You're the Man! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python CGI not working in Firefox but does in IE

n a Firefox window: [OUTPUT] http://server1.com";> [/OUTPUT] Is there anything I can do to fix this? Also, is there a redirect command somewhere within Python CGI that can get this done instead as I would actually prefer to have the CGI code execute this rather than depe

FTPlib

\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 327, in ntransfercmd resp = self.sendcmd(cmd) File "C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 241, in sendcmd return self.getresp() File "C:\Python24\lib\ftplib.py", line 216, in getresp raise error_perm, resp ftplib.error_perm: 500 Syntax error, command unrecognized. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python

Hi Simon, Honestly, any type of application can be programmed with Python. Python is extremely "wrappable" as it can be wrapped around virtually any type of platform that exists. You can create GUI, system, and web apps easily. The main niche that Python holds is the fact it exists for the benefit

Tkinter: is there a has_focus method or property for a window?

done, I am open to suggestions. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Catching very specific exceptions

Reasons why it still won't work: * Firewall * Unknown-modes-operating-systems-get-into Yeah, I dont think these things can be avoided. Nonetheless, if I can come up with some way (via help from this group--thank God!) to find if the node is up (barring the two aforementioned reasons), I am doing

Re: Catching very specific exceptions

ection on a specific port, but this is just a way to tell if something is up or down (and perhaps the only real way to do it running from a Win32 platform). Thanks for the help. However, if you do have suggestions on how to get this done better, I am more than glad to hear it! Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Catching very specific exceptions

tried: except socket.error, (10061, 'Connection refused'): and except (socket.error, 10061, 'Connection refused'): to no avail. What do I need to do to catch each one specifically? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

socket.gethostbyaddr() question

ng way too many machines and this either takes too long or causes severe memory leakage due to MS's horrible ping client). Also, I am unable to use Jeremy Hylton's Python ping client because it does little more than call gethostbyaddr(). Thanks for taking a look at this. Harlin Seritt -- http:

Converting milliseconds to human amount of time

How can I take a time given in milliseconds (I am doing this for an uptime script) and convert it to human-friendly time i.e. "4 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes, 10 seonds."? Is there a function from the time module that can do this? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailma

Re: Converting milliseconds to human time

Thanks Dan, that would be perfect or close enough I should say. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Converting milliseconds to human time

I would like to take milliseconds and convert it to a more human-readable format like: 4 days 20 hours 10 minutes 35 seconds Is there something in the time module that can do this? I havent been able to find anything that would do it. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

How to Retrieve Data from an HTTPS://URL

I am trying to pull data from a web page at https://localhost/wps. While this would work if the url was http://localhost/wps, it doesn't work with 'https.' I can do this: import urllib data = urllib.urlopen('http://localhost/wps').read() But not with https. How can I pull data from a https url?

Need eyes to look at code... time not having an attribute called asctime()

T INFORMATION: Pinging '+ip+' at '+time.asctime() AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'asctime' Press any key to exit I'm sure this is something simple but for this I am having trouble figuring it out. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Function to retrieve running script

Thanks Mike, that will work just as well... just disappointed in myself that i lack the creativity to think of something that simple ;-) thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Function to retrieve running script

Is there a function that allows one to get the name of the same script running returned as a string? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Putting a lock on file.

g: try: open(file, 'r').read() flag = 1 except: pass This may seem nice on paper but I hate to run a while for an indeterminate amount of time. Is there anything else that can be done that would be better? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mai

Re: pinging from within python

You can do the following: import os data = os.popen('ping machineName').read() if 'request timed out' in data or 'unknown host' in data: Ping Failed Code else: Ping Returned Something Good Code This is the quickest and really most effective way to g

Re: Rendering HTML

Hi DH, Thanks for this blurb from ASPN. I am really looking, however, to do this on a Windows machine as opposed to a Unix one at this point. This will come in handy down the road I am sure. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Rendering HTML

I am looking for a module that will render html to console but formatted much like one might see with Lynx. Is there such a module already out there for this? Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python Search Engine app

Hi, Is anyone aware of an available open-source/free search engine app (something similar to HTDig) written in Python that is out there? Googling has turned up nothing. Thought maybe I'd mine some of you guys' minds on this. thanks, Harlin Seritt Internet Villa: www.seritt.org

Re: python script under windows

x27;s like 30USD but it does a great job and adds a few extra features. HTH, Harlin Seritt Internet Villa: www.seritt.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: problems with smtplib

What are you getting in your smtpd logs? Are you using postfix? sendmail? or are you running this against a Windows stmp service? Harlin Seritt Internet Villa: www.seritt.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Win32: Possible to use Python to create Snap-Ins for MMC?

Is it possible to use Python to create snapins for the MMC? Thanks, Harlin Seritt Internet Villa: www.seritt.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Considering moving from PowerBuilder to Python

shake a stick at :-). Harlin Seritt Internet Villa: www.seritt.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: use threading without classes

Is there any reason why you wouldn't want to do this using the the threading class? To each his own I suppose. You can try the following though you'll at least need to use functions: import time import thread def myfunction(string,sleeptime,*args): while 1: print string time

Machine Name

How does one get the machine name with Python that the actual script is running on? Obviously, one could parse the hosts file but I was wondering if there was a quick way to get it done? thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with Regular Expressions

Forgive another question here, but what is the 'r' for when used with expression: r'\w+...' ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Help with Regular Expressions

Ahh that's it Frederik. That's what I was looking for. The regular expression problems I will take care of, but first wanted to walk before running. ;) Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Help with Regular Expressions

d out how to output the matches for this expression of my 'wordList' into a neat list variable. How do I get this done? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

How to run python script in background after i logout

I have a remote linux server where I can only access it via ssh. I have a script that I need to have run all the time. I run like so: python script.py & It runs fine. When I log off ssh I notice that the script died when I logged off. How do I make sure it stays running? thanks, Harlin Se

Re: Formatting data to output in web browser from web form

This is perfect. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Formatting data to output in web browser from web form

t '\n' is not being used. Is there anything I can do to make sure paragraphs show up properly? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Want to learn a language - is Python right?

as needing something for web apps, CherryPy is great -- just learn Python first. PHP is good but it has fallen out of favor with me though there are a ton of people out there who think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Take a look at the Python tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html. Good luck, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: extreme newbie

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Re: extreme newbie

the way to open files and read lines in Java." If anyone cares to give an intelligence answer to my question, I'll be happy to take it in without ridicule but I just don't see it. Sorry for the rant (and somewhat off-topic but I hear you guys are tolerant of that in this group ;-)), but

Re: How to learn OO of python?

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Re: How to learn OO of python?

_() method. This is useful whenever you want to use 'color' as a private variable. The same also goes for methods. Hopefully, you see how useful this can be down the road. This way you won't have to use variable/method access modifiers like Public, Private, Protected and so forth. If this doesn't make sense or you want more clarity, please let me know. Good luck, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does TKinter Have A Grid ?

Not a grid widget necessarilly but a 'grid' method you can use instead of pack(). Take a look at http://www.pythonware.com/library/tkinter/introduction/grid.htm. If this isn't what you mean, come back. Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: SGMLlib module

s easy to parse with Python on your own! Thanks for the help, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

SGMLlib module

I am trying to use SGMLlib module to extract all links from some data I pulled from the web (via urllib). I have looked at the documentation online and can not make sense of it. As a quick example, how would I get the hyperlinks for an html file? thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Active Directory Modules?

Does anyone know if there are any Python Active Directory Modules out there? I looked at LDAP module but there is no version for Python 2.4 and it's support for Active Directory seems to be lacking a bit. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Using wildcards...

George that is what I'm looking for. Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Quick and dirty dialogs?

Try EasyDialog: http://www.talkaboutprogramming.com/group/comp.lang.python/messages/314003.html It should also be on Vaults of Parnassus. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Displaying formatted - data with TKinter

I've used multiple listboxes in the past. Also, you can build a widget that contains multiple listboxes as well. As far as there being one ready to go, I don't know of one. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Using wildcards...

ket text. What I would like to do is to .split() using something akin to this: textdata.split('{*}') # The '*' being a wildcard Is this possible to do? If so, how is it done? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: tkMessageBox dialog help

e showing the message box. If you find a more elegant way to accomplish this, please post back ! Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Killing process

I actually tried mapping the PID to an integer value and it still didn't work. At any rate, I found another way to do it. Thanks anyways. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Running script in background.

Hi, I have a script.py that is converted to .exe using py2exe. From another script I call script.exe and would like to be able to run this script.exe in the background (as well as in console -- giving the user some simple options). How can I make this happen? thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.pyth

Writing to log file when script is killed

I am looking for a way for my script to write to a log file saying something like this: I was killed at time.asctime() I would like to be able to do this if/when the script is killed by means rather than my own. How in the world would I accomplish this? Thanks, Harlin -- http://mail.python.or

Re: Killing process

I think I need something besides TerminateProcess(). Is there anyway possible to terminate a process by just passing a string value to the function? Honestly, I am not interesting in terminating a process by its handle. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Killing process

Yeah I've kind of figured that. I was just wanting to know what I could use to kill a pid that is a string value. Thanks though. Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Killing process

I am using os.getpid() to get the pid value for a script running. I store that value (as a string) to a file. Later when I try to kill that pid (i pull this from the file as a string value) I get errors. Using the following lines I get the subsequent error. (pid is a string value) win32api.Termi

Getting PID for process

Let's say I have a simple script on Windows NT. I would like for that script to find its own PID once it's started and store that as a value within the script. Also, down the road I'd like to kill that process by its PID. How is this done? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://

Re: Can .py be complied?

pacity. If you would like to obfuscate your code (disguise it) without an executable you can try pyobfuscate as well. Just Google for these two and you'll find easily. Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Getting the sender widget's name in function (Tkinter)

utton1.pack() button2 = Button(root, text='Button 2', command=say_hello) button2.pack() root.mainloop() Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Multiple tuples for one for statement

Thank you Mr. Stroud. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Multiple tuples for one for statement

I have three tuples of the same size: tup1, tup2, tup3 I'd like to do something like this: for a,b,c in tup1, tup2, tup3: print a print b print c Of course, you get an error when you try to run the pseudocode above. What is the correct way to get this done? Thanks, Harlin -- http://

Parsing data from URL

I am trying to do the following: import urllib url = 'http://www.website.com/file.shtml' dat = urllib.urlopen(url, 'r').read() print dat When I do so, I get the following data: 405 Method Not Allowed Method Not Allowed The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL Apache/1.3.27 Se

Re: Decent Win32All Documentation

Kartic, Thanks for the help. It's good to get a different perspective on something (i.e. MSDN, dir() etc). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Decent Win32All Documentation

down to me. What I am hoping to do is to work on some Python versions of PSTools. I think the win32 modules will be perfect for helping me do this, however, I am having a (more than it should be) difficult time making sense of the win32process module. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Har

Question Regarding PIL and PhotoImage classes

'dellserver.gif') photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im) label = Label(master, image=photo) label.pack() if __name__ == '__main__': root = Tk() app = App(root) root.mainloop() ---END of CODE--- Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: very simple tkinter demo program

Max, Thanks and good job! Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: serialize a tkinter thing

No reason why they shouldn't be. -Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Does Tk provide ComboBox ?

ully functional :-) Seriously though, you can use the Listbox for almost anything you would need a combobox for. In my mind, it's good for tight spaces (I'm sure someone on this fine board will add something or disagree with me), looks and little else. Regards, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.py

Re: workaround for generating gui tools

Benedict, Best to hand-code your code ;-) -- even GUI. This is kind of why I like Tkinter so much. Good luck. Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: logging as root using python script

Hi Raghul, If possible, run your program as root. Harlin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Combining digit in a list to make an integer

If anyone has time, would you mind explaining the code that Dan Bishop was so kind as to point out to me: int(''.join(num1)) This worked perfectly for me, however, I'm not sure that I understand it very well. Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Combining digit in a list to make an integer

I have the following: num1 = ['1', '4', '5'] How can I combine the elements in num1 to produce an integer 145? thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Showing errors explicitly in try... except

When using try... except... errors don't show up. Is there a way to force stderr despite using try...except? thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Py2exe and dotNet Python

nsole=["helloform.py"]) --- I run the setup like this: python setup.py py2exe. Is there anything else I need to do to get this converted into a *.exe file successfully? Thanks, Harlin Seritt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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