Re: I have 100 servers which need a new backup server added to a text file, and then the backup agent restarted.

2006-07-02 Thread Michael Abbott
Ove Pettersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for server in "server1 server2 server3 server100"; do Two comments: 1. Leave out the quotes(!) 2. Either iterate as for server in $(seq -fserver%g 100); do or, probably better for server in $(cat server-list); do -- http://mail.python.org/

Re: Import bug: Module executed twice when imported!

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Abbott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Set __name__ to 'subtest' as it would be if you had really imported > subtest and the import system will correctly name the modules, causing > imptest to be imported only once. Ach. I get it now. -- http://mail.py

Re: Module executed twice when imported!

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Abbott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's because __name__ is normally set to the module's name in the package > hierarchy. When you set it to "some1.some2", Python thinks it's > in a subpackage A. So what I *should* have set it to is the module name *w

Re: Module executed twice when imported!

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Abbott
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-24) > > "It is different from the import statement in that it does not use the > > module administration --" > > Just after the above statement, it also says: > > "it

Re: Import bug: Module executed twice when imported!

2006-06-30 Thread Michael Abbott
Bump In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Abbott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- test.py --- > import imptest > execfile('subtest.py', dict(__name__ = 'subtest.py')) > --- imptest.py --- > print 'Imptest imported' > --- su

Module executed twice when imported!

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Abbott
It seems to be an invariant of Python (insofar as Python has invariants) that a module is executed at most once in a Python session. I have a rather bizzare example that breaks this invariant: can anyone enlighten me as to what is going on? --- test.py --- import imptest execfile('subtest.py',