Re: Movie (MPAA) ratings and Python?

2013-12-09 Thread Paul Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/2013 08:40, Ben Finney wrote: > Dan Stromberg writes: > >> Is anyone using a module or database that gives Python 3.x access >> to MPAA ratings (EG G, PG, PG-13, etc.)? If you are already using IMDB you should have a look at http://imdbpy.s

Re: Stack Overflow moderator “animuson”

2013-07-10 Thread Paul Scott
On 10/07/2013 14:22, Chris Angelico wrote: Either that or it's funny only to other Australians. ChrisA As a South African, I found it funny too, but then again, we often get confused. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: opening a file

2011-06-19 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 08:14 +0200, Florencio Cano wrote: > > This works: > > infile=open('/foo/bar/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r') > > > > This doesn't: > > infile=open('~/prog/py_modules/this_is_a_test','r') > > > > Can't I work with files using Unix expressions? > > You can use the glob mod

Re: How can I intentionally crash my lappy?

2010-12-20 Thread Paul Scott
On 20/12/2010 10:45, mechtheist wrote: > I am no programmer, but know the rudiments [the rudi'est of rudiments] > of working with Python. I have a simple need, to have a simple > script/app I can run that will crash my PC. On my desktops, I can > always hit the reset, but that is not an option

Re: Any idea to emulate tail -f

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 23:50 -0700, CTO wrote: > You might want to try http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/. Works well on > Linux systems. Otherwise, I'd watch the mtime on the file and fork to > handle the change. > pyinotify works really well. If you need to watch a file, simply use the IN_MODIFY

Re: Convert Word .doc to Acrobat .pdf files

2008-06-06 Thread Paul Scott
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 16:22 +0530, Dinil Karun wrote: > hi, > > I am using the below code but i am getting a error saying pyUno module > not found. > can u please help. I just wrote the same thing! Take a look at http://cvs2.uwc.ac.za/trac/python_tools/browser/oooconv It should do what you wan

Re: Nested os.path.join()'s

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:34 -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > How about not nesting the calls? > > >>> from os.path import join > >>> join(join('x', 'y'), 'z') == join('x', 'y', 'z') > True > >>> > Great! Thanks. Didn't realise that you could do that... :) --Paul All Email o

Re: Nested os.path.join()'s

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 16:21 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: > example: > > if os.path.exists(os.path.join(basedir,picdir)) == True : > blah blah > Sorry, pasted the wrong example... Better example: pics = glob.glob(os.path.join(os.path.join(basedir,picdir),'*'))

Nested os.path.join()'s

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Scott
Today, I needed to concatenate a bunch of directory paths and files together based on user input to create file paths. I achieved this through nested os.path.join()'s which I am unsure if this is a good thing or not. example: if os.path.exists(os.path.join(basedir,picdir)) == True : blah bla

Re: Is massive spam coming from me on python lists?

2008-04-20 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 02:01 -0400, Brian Vanderburg II wrote: > I've recently gotten more than too many spam messages and all say > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering > if my mail list registration is now being used to spam myself and > others. If so, sorry, but I'm not the one sending m

Re: Brand New!

2008-04-15 Thread Paul Scott
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 02:35 -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote: > I'm unsure if teaching Javascript, VBScript and Python at the same time is > a good thing, I'd think one would get a language soup and mix all the > concepts, but if it works for you, go ahead. > For other resources, see the beginne

Re: a name error

2008-04-14 Thread Paul Scott
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:54 +0800, Penny Y. wrote: > import urllib2,sys > try: > r=urllib2.urlopen("http://un-know-n.com/";) > except URLError,e: > print str(e) > sys.exit(1) > > print r.info() > > > But got the errors: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "t1.py", line

Re: First Python project - comments welcome!

2008-04-08 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 06:20 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If anyone on this list is willing/able, please do give me a few > > pointers, even if it is "This is total crap - RTFM and come back when > > you are ready" I would really appreciate it! > > Ok, since you asked for it: > Awesome fe

Re: First Python project - comments welcome!

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 09:56 -0700, Lie wrote: > I don't know if it was just me, but I can't just scan through your > code briefly to know what it is about (as is with any non-trivial > codes), only after looking through the website's Roadmap I realized > it's something to do with audio and recordi

Re: First Python project - comments welcome!

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 07:05 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > The code looks pretty good to someone that doesn't know Gtk graphics. > Err, neither do I, so I guess that means its OK? :) > 184: self.wTree2=gtk.glade.XML(globaldir+"podder.glade","serverdialogue") > > could really do with using os.p

First Python project - comments welcome!

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Scott
I have started, and made some progress (OK it works, but needs some love) on my first real Python application. http://cvs2.uwc.ac.za/trac/python_tools/browser/podder I would love some feedback on what I have done. In total this has taken me 5 nights to do (I am working on it at night as PHP, not

Re: Command line input

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I receive input from the command line in Python? I have used: sys.argv[ 1 ] I have been doing Python for around 2 days now, so please do double check that! --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http

Re: Beginner advice

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 04:02 -0700, Graham Ashton wrote: > pyGTK is great. I used it quite heavily a year or so ago. GTK is a > nice tool kit from the user's perspective too; you can make some > rather attractive and usable applications with it, and the GUI builder > is a boon. Obviously it integra

Re: Beginner advice

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Scott
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 06:45 +, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > There is an `xmlrpclib` in the standard library, so there is no need for > an external package here. I even think that pyXMLRPClib is the one that's > integrated in the standard library, so the external one might be "dead". >

Beginner advice

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Scott
I have been tasked to come up with an audio recorder desktop (cross platform if possible - but linux only is OK) that: 1. records a lecture as an MP3 file (pymedia?) 2. Provides a login form for server credentials 3. Uploads via XMLRPC (pyxmlrpclib) to the server as a podcast I have been working