setuptools: getting data files to be installed

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Paterson
ipts=['tacman.py'], entry_points = { 'console_scripts' : [ 'tacman = tacman.tacman', ] }, description='A tactical, turn-based clone on PACMAN', author='Paul Paterson', author_email='ppater

SOLVED: Can os.remove followed by os.path.isfile disagree?

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Paterson
On Jun 6, 12:30 pm, "Roger Upole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can os.path.isfile(x) ever return True after os.remove(x) has > > successfully completed? (Windows 2003, Python 2.3) > > Yes. If another application has opened the file with FILE_SHARE_DELETE, > os.remove

Re: Can os.remove followed by os.path.isfile disagree?

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Paterson
> Don't suppose you've got some kind of flashy software > running which intercepts OS file-manipulation calls for > Virus or Archiving purposes? > > TJG As I mentioned in another reply, this server is virtual and so is the drive. I'm wondering if this might also be significant. Paul -- http://

Re: Can os.remove followed by os.path.isfile disagree?

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Paterson
> > Is the file on a network drive by any chance? > > Diez No, but the server is actually a VMWare VM and the drive is a virtual drive. I'm thinking that this may be significant as it may be that the VMWare VHD driver is the "flashy software running which intercepts OS file- manipulation calls" t

Re: Can os.remove followed by os.path.isfile disagree?

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Paterson
Thanks for the response! > > I'd take the time to really examine the multiple threads of work you're > running > to make sure one of them isn't removing the file just as another creates it. > Better still, use a locking semaphore around the code the creates/deletes the > file > to guarantee mutu

Re: Can os.remove followed by os.path.isfile disagree?

2007-06-06 Thread Paul Paterson
Thanks for the quick and detailed response! > The most likely bet would seem to be a race condition > as you suggest below. Doesn't have to be from a thread > in your program, although I assume you know best about > your own filesystem ;) My first thought, after discounting the os.remove early r

Re: executing VBScript from Python and vice versa

2005-02-04 Thread Paul Paterson
Valentina Boycheva wrote: Is there a way to make programs written in these two languages communicate with each other? I am pretty sure that VBScript can access a Python script because Python is COM compliant. On the other hand, Python might be able to call a VBScript through WSH. Can somebody provi