Re: Send email notification

Ernesto wrote: >Is there a special module for mail ? > >I'd like to send an email [to 'n' unique email addresses] from a python >script. > > http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com/search.pl?python+smtp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Difference between a library and a module...

sophie_newbie wrote: >OK this might seem like a retarded question, but what is the difference >between a library and a module? > >If I do: > >import string > >am I importing a module or a library? > > I'm not a guru, but... I think that modules are things that live inside the Python language. I

Re: Calculating md5 checksums.

Rajesh Sathyamoorthy wrote: > I tried the script and had to get a hexdigest to get the value provided > > My test: > SimplyMEPIS-3.3.1-1.iso > checksum: 41a19060d3bb37bd596708ba77964491 > i got: 41a19060d3bb37bd596708ba77964491 > > Do people normally provide md5 checksum in a *hexadecimal string?

Re: Convert dictionary to HTTP POST

>>The values of some inputs are encoded using html entities. >>How can I decode a string like "Bessy's cat" in "Bessy's cat"? >> >> > >this snippet might help: > >http://effbot.org/zone/re-sub.htm#strip-html > > Thank you, worked like a charm. :-) Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/m

Re: Convert dictionary to HTTP POST

> Well I don't understand what's encoding the apostrophe as an encoded > entity anyway. That's only supposed to be done for HTML content, not > form content. You are right. I was wrong. The problem was not with quote. It was reading out the VALUE of an INPUT from HTML source. > How about an

Re: Convert dictionary to HTTP POST

> > >See urllib.urlencode(). No idea why they don't include it in urllib2 as >well, but there you go. > > >>> from urllib import urlencode > >>> urlencode({'a':'& "Simple string"', 'b': '<>[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*()_+='}) >'a=%26+%22Simple+string%22&b=%3C%3E%21%40%23%24%25%5E%26%2A%28%29_%2B%3D' > >>>

Convert dictionary to HTTP POST

Hello, How can I convert a dictionary into a HTTP POST string? I have an example below, but this is not working correctly for special characters. (" ' and others). In other words, if I use "Bessy's cat" instead of "Bessy" then the http server will parse that to "Bessy's cat" Probably the prob

Re: Numerical solver

Robert Kern wrote: >In [7]: scipy.optimize.fmin_cobyla? > >Type: function >Base Class: >String Form: >Namespace: Interactive >File: >/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/scipy- >0.4.7.1607-py2.4-macosx-10.4-ppc.egg/scipy/optimize/cob

Numerical solver

Hello, I would like to use a numerical solver for a specific problem. My problem looks like this: 1. I have numeric constants, named A,B,C etc. 2. I have numeric variables, named x,y,z etc. 3. I have functions, like f1(x), f2(x), f3(x,y), f4(y) etc. 4. I have constraints like f1(x

Re: _bsddb on NetBSD

Miki Tebeka wrote: >Hello All, > >I can't seem to build Python2.4.2 with bsddb on NetBSD. >bsddb seems to be missing from the pkg_add installation as well. > > Please look at the message that you get when you execute pkg_add -r python You will see that tkinter, bsddb, gdbm and some other libs

Re: Developing a network protocol with Python

Paul Rubin wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>But how can I transfer pure python objects otherwise? Pyro also uses >>Pickle and it also transfers bytecode. >> >> >Pyro in the past used pickle in an insecure way. I'd h

Re: Developing a network protocol with Python

Paul Rubin wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I already have my own classes. My objects are in object ownership >>trees, and they are referencing to each other (weakly and >>strongly). These classes have their own streaming methods,

Re: Developing a network protocol with Python

>Try Pyro http://pyro.sourceforge.net >before rolling your own Python-specific protocol. > > You are right. I wanted to use pyro before, because it is well tested and it has nice features. Unfortunately, it is not good for me. :-( I already have my own classes. My objects are in object owners

Re: Developing a network protocol with Python

Tom Anderson wrote: >>I think to be effective, I need to use TCP_NODELAY, and manually >>buffered transfers. >> >> >Why? > Because of the big delays when sending small messages (size < 1500 bytes). >Personally, i'd steer clear of doing it like this, and try to use an >existing, language-ne

Developing a network protocol with Python

Hello, I would like to develop a new network protocol, where the server and the clients are Python programs. I think to be effective, I need to use TCP_NODELAY, and manually buffered transfers. I would like to create a general messaging object that has methods like sendinteger recvinteger se

Re: instance + classmethod question

Mike Meyer wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Is it possible to tell, which instance was used to call the >>classmethod that is currently running? >> >> > >Ok, I read through what got to my nntp server, and I'm s

Re: instance + classmethod question

method. All right, it is a "ClassOrInstanceMethod". Amazing! Probably Python is the only language that is flexible enough to do this. :-) Thanks again! Laszlo Steven Bethard wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >>Is it possible to tell

instance + classmethod question

Hello, Is it possible to tell, which instance was used to call the classmethod that is currently running? Background: I have a class called DatabaseConnection and it has a classmethod called process_create_tables. This method should create some database tables defined by a database definiti

Re: How to ping in Python?

Michael Schneider wrote: >I telnet to port 13 (returns time) > The problem is that most modern up-to-date servers use firewalls. They only open the ports that are absolutely necessary. Usually the time service is part of inetd, which is disabled by default, on most of the servers. PING ICMP may

junk pointer ????

Hi All, I got this while using Python 2.4 under FreeBSD 5.4: python in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense Segmentation fault (core dumped) What does it mean? Thanks, Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: windows installer problems

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, >I'm trying to install Python on Windows 2000 Server using remote >desktop. I log as a user that is in administrators group. Instalator >starts, I select default installation directory, on the next screen >with parts to install I click just next. Than blicks screen wi

Re: extract python install info from registry

>There's more to it than that... isn't there? I've used _winreg and the >win32 extensions in the past when working with the registry. I thought >perhaps someone had already scripted something to extract this info. > > Ok, if you need to get all changes in the registry, you can use regdiff. ht

Re: extract python install info from registry

rbt wrote: >On windows xp, is there an easy way to extract the information that >Python added to the registry as it was installed? > > Using regedit.exe, look at the registry keys and values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Python If you need to know how to read the registry from Python: ple

ZSI bug?

Hi All, I'm trying to use ZSI (and SOAP) for the first time. I read somewhere that ZSI is the most compete SOAP implementation. I have ZSI-1.7 and PyXML-0.8.4. This very simple code: import ZSI fname = 'eBaySvc.wsdl' version = 421 url = 'http://developer.ebay.com/webservices/%s/%s' % (versio

Re: IE Temporary Internet Files & Python

>The script does not seem to work when used on Temporary Internet Files. > > Doesn't work well? What does it mean? Is there an exception raised? Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: html parser?

Thorsten Kampe wrote: >* Christoph Söllner (2005-10-18 12:20 +0100) > > >>right, that's what I was looking for. Thanks very much. >> >> > >For simple things like that "BeautifulSoup" might be overkill. > >import formatter, \ > htmllib, \ > urllib > >url = 'http://python.org'

Re: html parser?

Christoph Söllner wrote: >Hi *, > >is there a html parser available, which could i.e. extract all links from a >given text like that: >""" >BAR >BAR2 >""" > >and return a set of dicts like that: >""" >{ > ['foo.php','BAR','param1','test'], > ['foo2.php','BAR2','param1','test','param2','test'] >

Outdated documentation

Hi All, This is from the documentation of the dbhash module: Returns the key next key/value pair in a database traversal. The following code prints every key in the database |db|, without having to create a list in memory that contains them all: print db.first() for i in xrange

Re: Very dumb question

>i. e. a character after a 'carriage return' ('\r') overwrites part of the >string which therefore doesn't seem to grow. Try > >print repr(data[:51]) > >to see what's really in your data string. > > Yes, that was it! Thanks for you help. I thought it will be something obvious. The server retu

Re: Very dumb question

David Stockwell wrote: > Indeed,Are you writing a new book? > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563052857/wildwierdmathpro I'm not, but thanks for asking. :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Very dumb question

> >I assume the code snippets are exact copy/paste so this is not a typo >(like print data[51:] ...) - and I can't reproduce it here... even with >a string of 20381 characters. > > Yes, they were cut out. type(data) returns ''. The data was downloaded from a website, it starts with http://www.w

Re: Very dumb question

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: >I have a program with this code fragment: > >print len(data) >print data[:50] >raise SystemExit > >This prints: > >20381 > >But if I change 50 to 51 > >print len(data) >print data[:51] >raise SystemEx

Very dumb question

I have a program with this code fragment: print len(data) print data[:50] raise SystemExit This prints: 20381 http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Need a spider library

Fredrik Lundh wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > > > >>The question: is there a good library for Python for extraction links and >>images >>out of (possibly malformed) HTML soucre code? >> >> > >http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup

Need a spider library

Hi All, I'm writting a spider program. I need to go to serveral URLs and extract information from the HTML source. Including links. I was using FancyURLOpener and my own function that extracts the links from a HTML page. The problem is that I always need to change it. This is because some sit

Re: Send password over TCP connection

>If you're saying that people have no choice but to trust that their >passwords, stored in the clear on the server of some idiot who didn't >know better, are safe from casual administrator observation and safe >from hackers stealing the password file, then you shouldn't be allowed >anywhere ne

Re: Send password over TCP connection

Paul Rubin wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>This is a bit offtopic here. I read the RFC and I do not see why SRP >>is not vulnerable to dictionary attacks. >>If I have a working client software then I can use it to reveal >>

Re: Send password over TCP connection

>If you really want to do it right, use SRP, . > > This is a bit offtopic here. I read the RFC and I do not see why SRP is not vulnerable to dictionary attacks. If I have a working client software then I can use it to reveal passwords. Isn't it a dictionary attack? Can

Re: Send password over TCP connection

>Ignoring all the other issues, any solution which actually requires the >password to be stored on the server is a bad solution. Administrators >should not have access to user passwords, and in addition users should >not be put in the position of having to trust your server-side security >to

Re: Send password over TCP connection

dcrespo wrote: >¡Beautiful and elegant solution! > >Two copies of the password: one on the client, the other on the server. > >1. Client wants to connect >2. Server generates a random_alphanumeric_string and sends it to the >client >3. Both Client and Server creates a hash string from > >4. Client

Re: Send password over TCP connection

How about an OTP (One Time Password) algorithm? It is described in RFC2289. http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2289.html I have a working implementation in Messlib. You can download it an look at the "MessageSocket.SecureMessageSocket" class. That is a modified version where a good random generator is

Re: Comparing lists

Odd-R. wrote: >I have to lists, A and B, that may, or may not be equal. If they are not >identical, I want the output to be three new lists, X,Y and Z where X has >all the elements that are in A, but not in B, and Y contains all the >elements that are B but not in A. Z will then have the elemen

Re: Python's Performance

Dave wrote: > Hello All, > > I would like to gather some information on Python's runtime > performance. As far as I understand, it deals with a lot of string > objects. Does it require a lot string processing during program > execution? How does it handle such time-consuming operations? Is th

Re: Class property

Peter Otten wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > > > >>I was trying for a while, but I could not implement a 'classproperty' >>function. Is it possible at all? >> >> > >You could define a "normal" property in the metaclass: &

Re: /usr/bin/env python, force a version

Roel Schroeven wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >> >>>I've got a trouble, and i think that anybody there can help me >>> >>>I've got a python script which i distribute in somes package

Re: /usr/bin/env python, force a version

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I've got a trouble, and i think that anybody there can help me > >I've got a python script which i distribute in somes packages for *nix. >This script is full of python and need python 2.4 ! And i'd like to >display a message when the user doesn't have a python2.4 version

Re: Help-log in to a web page

>> >> I tried to view the source,it has, >> >> >> src="/em/cabo/images /t.gif" height="80">> align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0">> id="username >> __xc_">> title="Required" class="xc">* *User Name> pan>> width="12">> id="username"

Class property (was: Class methods)

Hughes, Chad O wrote: > Is there any way to create a class method? I can create a class > variable like this: > Hmm, seeing this post, I have decided to implement a 'classproperty' descriptor. But I could not. This is what I imagined: class A(object): _x = 0 @classmethod def get_x(

Re: Help-log in to a web page

Murugesh wrote: >Hi all, >I'm a newbie to python.I need to login to a webpage after supplying >usename and password. > >import urllib >sock = urllib.urlopen("http://xop-pc.main.com";) >htmlSource = sock.read() >sock.close() >pri

Re: Class methods

>> >> >Oh man, it has been a long time I have read such an disturbing question. > >RTMF here: http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-14 > > I feel I was a bit harsh. class A(object): x = 0 @classmethod def f(cls): cls.x += 1 print "x is",cls.x >>> A.

Re: Class methods

Hughes, Chad O wrote: > Is there any way to create a class method? I can create a class > variable like this: > ... > Any ideas? > Oh man, it has been a long time I have read such an disturbing question. RTMF here: http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-14 Les -- http://mail

Re: how to keep collection of existing instances and return one on instantiation

>I've removed all references to the object, except for the cache. Do I >have to implement my own garbage collecting is or there some "magical" >way of doing this within Python? I pretty much want to get rid of the >cache as soon as there are no other references (other than the cache). > Store we

Re: change a value to NULL?

Bell, Kevin wrote: >I'm pulling a list of numbers from MS Excel, but occasionally if there >is no data from excel, the value is an asterisk, but I need to make it >null. > >What is the best way to do that? Thus far, I'm using: > > >for value in myRange: > try: > intV = int(value

Re: How to get the output from os.system() into a variable?

>>result=python_command(' command_on_the_bash ') >> >>Is that possible? And how to do that? >> >> > >Check out the commands module. > >http://docs.python.org/lib/module-commands.html > Hmm, I forgot this one. It is only working from UNIX, am I right? Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: How to get the output from os.system() into a variable?

alexLIGO wrote: >Hi, > >I would like to execute some command in python on the bash, e.g. > >os.system('globus-job-run mike4.cct.lsu.edu/jobmanager-pbs -l >/bin/date') > >and want the result of the output in a vector, so something like: > >result=python_command(' command_on_the_bash ') > >Is that p

Re: Python, Mysql, insert NULL

> > BTW, you did not write which driver are you using. Oh, you did. Sorry. :-( Import your DB module 'yourmodule' and then print yourmodule.paramstyle Description of paramstyle is also in PEP249: paramstyle String constant stating the type of parameter marker

Re: Python, Mysql, insert NULL

Python_it wrote: >Python 2.4 >MySQL-python.exe-1.2.0.win32-py2.4.zip > >How can I insert a NULL value in a table (MySQL-database). >I can't set a var to NULL? Or is there a other possibility? >My var must be variable string or NULL. >Becaus i have a if statement: >if > cursor.execute("..

email module, redirecting to stdout

Hello, I have this code: s = smtplib.SMTP() s.set_debuglevel(1) s.connect(host=smtp_host) s.set_debuglevel(0) log("Connected, sending e-mail") sys.stdout.flush() s.sendmail( consts.EMAIL_FROMADDRESS, [to],

Re: @staticmethod, backward compatibility?

Neal Becker wrote: >How can I write code to take advantage of new decorator syntax, while >allowing backward compatibility? > >I almost want a preprocessor. > >#if PYTHON_VERSION >= 2.4 >@staticmethod >... > > >Since python < 2.4 will just choke on @staticmethod, how can I do this? > > Decorator

Re: Problem subclassing (Newbie)

>Then I have an instance of class Button called obj. My probelm is that >the test isinstance(obj, Widget) resturns False! > You must have a typo somewhere. Please try this little test program. >>> class Widget(object): ... pass ... >>> class Button(Widget): ... pass ... >>> b = B

Re: Indexed variables

>If you really want to change an actual parameter inside an object, then > > inside a function, I mean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Indexed variables

>a1=a2=0 > >def f(x): >if x == a1: >a1 = a1 + 1 >elif x == a2: >a2 = a2 + 1 > > >Now if I call f with f(a2) only a1, of course, is incremented because the >if-clause does only check for the value of the input and the values of a1 >and a2 are identical. > >So how do I define

Re: Where is my exception

>The program prints out "point 1" but it does not print "point 2". What >am I missing? > > Sorry from all. I should have been looked at the processor before I posted. There is no exception. It was an infinite loop inside the try block, but it was called from an event handler. I did not notice

Re: testing a website from python

M.N.A.Smadi wrote: >hi; > >I just want to test that a given website is up or not from a python >script. I thought of using wget as an os command. Any better ideas? > > urllib http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html If you only want to test if the HTTP port is open or not:

Where is my exception

I have this code in a wxWidgets program: class HtmlHintWindow(wx.Frame): def __init__(self,pos,hint,config): global _current_hint_window # Determine the size of the screen self.screensize = wx.ClientDisplayRect()[2:] # Calculate the size of the hint ;-)

Re: win32 service and time.sleep()

rbt wrote: >I have a win32 service written in Python. It works well. It sends a >report of the status of the machine via email periodically. The one >problem I have is this... while trying to send an email, the script >loops until a send happens and then it breaks. Should it be unable to >send, it

Re: Python Doc Problem Example: os.path.split

>is the doc writer, trying to write the doc with some austereness, but >is confused about the behavior of split, or confused about expressing >it? Did his pretension fucked him up? > > Dear Xah Lee, The Python community is very sorry because we have a very bad documentation. You are right. Th

Re: Self reordering list in Python

>I wonder why you don't use a dictionary? The only time I used a >move-front algorithm I stored algorithms and had to evaluate a >condition to select the correct algo. That means no constant search key >was available for accessing the correct one. In case of an image list I >would implement a self

Re: How to clear screen in Python interactive shell mode?

A. L. wrote: >In Python interactive mode, is there some function acting like 'clear' >command in bash? Could somebody here give some advice? > > Under Linux/UNIX system (on x86 at least) you can use the CTRL+L combination to clear the screen. I do not now similar for Windows and MACs. Les

Self reordering list in Python

Hello, Do you know how to implement a really efficient self reordering list in Python? (List with a maximum length. When an item is processed, it becomes the first element in the list.) I would like to use this for caching of rendered images. Of course I could implement this in pure Python,

Distutils extension proposal (was: Re: Distutils question)

Peter Hansen wrote: >>How how can I install my .mo files from a distutil script into its >>default location? >> >>sys.prefix + os.sep + 'share' + os.sep + 'locale' >> >> > >I can't answer the first question, but the latter should be written this >way instead > >os.path.join(sys.prefix, '

Re: popen in thread on QNX

>>os.popen already creates a new process. So what if you try to call >>os.popen from your main thread, then pass the file descriptors to your >>thread? >>It is just an idea... >> >> > >But I need to run command from thread, that's the main reason to create >new thread :) > > Ok, but can't

Re: popen in thread on QNX

Jacek Popławski wrote: >I am still in the process of creating my script which will run command >received from socket. >My scripts works perfectly on Linux, but doesn't work on QNX! > >File "/usr/lib/python2.4/popen2.py", line 108, in __init__ > self.pid = os.fork() >OSError: [Errno 89] Func

Distutils question

How how can I install my .mo files from a distutil script into its default location? sys.prefix + os.sep + 'share' + os.sep + 'locale' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The right way to do i18n

Hello, I wonder if there is a standard for making i18n in Python projects. I have several Python projects that are internationalized. I also have Python packages with i18n. But it is still not clean to me what is the recommended way to do it. Currently, I use a module called 'localization.p

epydoc CLI and many files

Hello, I have a problem under Windows. I use the cli.py program included with epydoc. I wrote a small program that lists all of my modules after the cli. Something like this: cli.py --html --inheritance=grouped module1.py module2.py module3.py .. The problem is that now I have so many m

Re: simple question: $1, $2 in py ?

>Oh, yes. Right : ) >It feels that I miss-looked it. > >thank You very much for an advice : ) > > Also try the OptParse module. http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-optparse.html It handles the GNU/POSIX syntax very well. Les -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: pexpect.exitstatus not working?

Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: >This function: > >def scp(from_path,to_path,pwd): >"""Copy a file with scp.""" >cmd = '/bin/csh -c "scp -q %s %s ; echo XXX"' %(from_path,to_path) >print cmd >child = pe

pexpect.exitstatus not working?

This function: def scp(from_path,to_path,pwd): """Copy a file with scp.""" cmd = '/bin/csh -c "scp -q %s %s ; echo XXX"' %(from_path,to_path) print cmd child = pexpect.spawn(cmd) child.expect('Password:') child.sendline(pwd) child.expect('XXX') return child.exi

Re: FileIO problem

Try this: gclas = raw_input("What is the class:") def Princlas(): count = 0 while count != 1000: count = count + 1 return "Admin forceclass %s %s " % ( count , gclas ) #asks for file name a = raw_input("What is new file name:") out_file = open(a,"w") #this is the input of t

sys.path and win32 services (was: importerror)

>Why do you think str() is needed here? > > Because I'm not sure if sys.path was overwritten or changed. Some bad modules could overwrite sys.path with another list. I know I'm paranoid. :-) >Possibly because sys.path can start with '' which is interpreted as the >current directory. Perhaps w

Re: zlib + Windows 32 service problem (ImportError)

| >| >C:\Python24;C:\Python24\DLLs;c:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\win32;c:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\bin;c:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\jre\1.4.2\bin\client;c:\oracle\product\10.1.0\db_1\jre\1.4.2\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program >| Files\Common Files\GT

Re: zlib + Windows 32 service problem (ImportError)

vincent wehren wrote: >"Laszlo Zsolt Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >| Sorry, I realized that the import zlib was not executed from my >| (working) service. >| So here is the question: why can't I use zlib from a w

zlib + Windows 32 service problem (ImportError)

Sorry, I realized that the import zlib was not executed from my (working) service. So here is the question: why can't I use zlib from a win32 service? Is there any way to make it working? >- >Python could not import the service's module > File "T:\Python\Projects\NamedConnector\Serv

Windows 32 service problem (ImportError)

Hi All! I have a running service (a small web server) implemented in python, running as a win32 service. I wrote another program that is very similar to the web server but I cannot start the service. From the event log, I can read this traceback: - Python could not import the se

How to use DrPython plugins

Hi All! I have DrPython installed. I see there are cool plugins but I cannot user them. For example, I installed the "CodeCompletion" and "CodeMark" plugins. I have enabled the "CodeCompletion" plugin by default. I assigned the shortcut CTRL+SPACE to :CodeCompletion "Toggle Code Completion"

Re: About size of Unicode string

Frank Abel Cancio Bello wrote: >Hi all! > >I need know the size of string object independently of its encoding. For >example: > > len('123') == len('123'.encode('utf_8')) > >while the size of '123' object is different of the size of >'123'.encode('utf_8') > >More: >I need send in HTTP reques

Re: idiom for constructor?

>You could try: > >class Foo: > def __init__(self,a,b,c,d): > args = locals() > for arg in args.keys(): > if name!='self': > self.__dict__[arg] = args[arg] > > Should be: if arg!='self' Also it is not perfect. For example: class Foo: def __init__(self,

Re: idiom for constructor?

Mac wrote: >Is there a nice Python idiom for constructors which would expedite the >following? > >class Foo: > def __init__(self, a,b,c,d,...): >self.a = a >self.b = b >self.c = c >self.d = d >... > >I would like to keep the __init__ parameter list explicit, as is, >rather tha

Re: minidom and DTD

Martin v. Löwis wrote: >Laszlo Zsolt Nagy wrote: > > >>How can I put the >> >> >> >>thing into an XML created by xml.dom.minidom? >> >> > >You should put a DocumentType node into your >DocumentNode, and pass a qualifiedN

minidom and DTD

Hi All, How can I put the thing into an XML created by xml.dom.minidom? Of course I can parse the generated XML file and insert the DOCTYPE string but there must be a standard way to do this... Best, Laci 2.0 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Manipulating mailboxes

Maksim Kasimov wrote: >change header information, insert messages into a database, delete/add >messages, should not store passwords for all users, ... and any things else >you wish to do - if your OS is UNIX - just forward mail messages of some users >to your python script (you don't need to wr

Manipulating mailboxes

Hi All, I need to create a daemon that sits on a server and forwards some e-mails. (Well not only that, it needs to change header information before forwarding and also insert messages into a database). The mailbox module is fine but I do not see a way to delete/add messages - it is ready on

Re: EpyDoc problem

>EpyDoc is hosted in Sourceforge. This alone may answer your question >about a bug-tracker: > >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=405618&group_id=32455&func=browse > > Well, I wrote to the bug tracker some days ago but no answer so far. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: EpyDoc problem

>Looks like it is a problem with wxWidgets. There is no problem if I do >not import wx. How to overcome this problem? >Currently I cannot document modules that import wx. :-( > > I found the answer on the wxPython-users list. It is disappointing that the standard documentation tool has no suppo

Re: super() and automatic method combination

>Which is fine so long as nobody else tries to add further subclasses later: > >class C(B): ... >class Mine(AB,C): ... > >Mine().f() > >Using super throughout this works (it calls f in Mine, AB, A, C, B, and >then Base), but your explicit call to the base classes means that if you >don't call C.

Re: super() and automatic method combination

>The trick is that C.f only calls A.f, but A.f needs to end up calling B.f >when it is used in a C. > > I believe your response only applies to single inheritance. For classes with muliple bases classes, you need to call the base methods one by one. BTW I prefer to call the base methods in th

Re: super() and automatic method combination

> >I have the impression that this is supposed to call the f method >in both A and B, so it should print > > Not really true. The first parameter of 'super' should be a type, not an instance. > A > B > C >or maybe > B > A > C >depending on the resolution order. However, it only calls

Re: EpyDoc problem

> >At the end of the traceback: > >wx\_misc.py line 3665, in _eq_ >return _misc_.DateTime.__eq__(*args) >TypeError: Expected a pointer > >I have no clue what does it mean but I guess it is an EpyDoc bug. >Does anyone ran into the same problem? Any ideas? > > Looks like it is a problem with w

EpyDoc problem

Hello, I would like to create documentation for my lib using EpyDoc. I do not see how to report bugs on the EpyDoc home page. When I try to create documentation, I get this error: Internal error: Expected a pointer Unhandled exception in thread started by At the end of the traceback: wx\_mi

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