hidden file detection

2006-05-19 Thread Lenny G.
What's the best way to do cross-platform hidden file detection? I want to do something like weed-out the files that should be 'hidden' from os.listdir() (which would be files that start with '.' under Unix, files that have the hidden attribute set on windows, and whatever it is that makes Mac file

Re: fully-qualified namespaces?

2005-09-12 Thread Lenny G.
with these facts (with a little bit of discomfort ;) ) -- just wanted to make sure that I understood. Lenny G. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: fully-qualified namespaces?

2005-09-12 Thread Lenny G.
amespace takes precendence. I tried using the renaming trick inside of Crypto.py, but it still can't find the original python-crypto Crypto. Maybe there's something I can do in the __init__.py? Maybe something with __path__? Is there a better way to access namespaces from the modul

fully-qualified namespaces?

2005-09-12 Thread Lenny G.
thon-crypto 'import Hippo.Crypto' # to refer to Hippo.Crypto but the 2nd item doesn't seem to work from within the Hippo module. What am I missing? Thanks, Lenny G. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

constructing bytestrings

2005-08-11 Thread Lenny G.
I use 's = os.read(fd, 12)' to grab 12 bytes from a file. Now, I want to create a string, s1, which contains 16-12=4 bytes: 4,0,0,0, followed by the contents of s. I know how to 's1 = "\x04\x00\x00\x00"' and how to 's3 = s1+s', but I don't know how to construct s1 dynamically (i.e., given N, cons

c/c++ extensions and help()

2005-07-28 Thread Lenny G.
Is there a way to make a c/c++ extension have a useful method signature? Right now, help(myCFunc) shows up like: myCFunc(...) description of myCFunc I'd like to be able to see: myCFunc(myArg1, myArg2) description of myCFunc Is this currently possible? Thanks, Lenny G. --