Re: Font management under win32

2005-09-30 Thread Stefano Masini
On 9/30/05, Roger Upole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an example of how to use EnumFontFamilies: I'm trying the code you just posted, which works (thanks a lot), but I'm having another problem now. As I stated in my first post, the reason why I need to know the list of installed fonts is th

Font management under win32

2005-09-28 Thread Stefano Masini
Hi, I have a simple need, running under windows: 1) retrieve the list of installed system fonts 2) maybe install missing fonts Surprisingly for me, there seems to be no support for such a thing in python. I really hope I'm mistaken, so _please_ correct me if I'm wrong. I found out that it all b

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

2005-09-10 Thread Stefano Masini
On 10 Sep 2005 03:16:02 EDT, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > frameworks are unlikely to serve them well as written. I realize this is > all at a level of complexity above what you had in mind, but it's easy > to forget that a significant portion of the world likes/needs/benefits > from th

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

2005-09-09 Thread Stefano Masini
On 10 Sep 2005 02:10:59 EDT, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As someone who implemented their own configuration mini-language > with validation, blah, blah, blah > (http://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/) Well, a configuration mini language with validation and blahs is not exactly

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

2005-09-09 Thread Stefano Masini
On 9/9/05, Dave Brueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shot). The cost of developing _exactly_ what you need often is (or at least > *appears* to be) the same as or lower than bending to use what somebody else > has > already built. That's right. But as you say, this is _often_ the case, not always.

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

2005-09-09 Thread Stefano Masini
On 9/9/05, djw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think, for me, this most important reason is that the stdlib version > of a module doesn't always completely fill the requirements of the > project being worked on. That's certainly why I wrote my own, much > simpler, logging module. In this case, its o

Re: Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

2005-09-09 Thread Stefano Masini
On 9/9/05, Michael Amrhein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you take a look at pyPI (http://www.python.org/pypi) ? > At least you'd find another odict ... Oh, yeah. And another filesystem abstraction layer... and another xml serialization methodology... :) PyPI is actually pretty cool. If I had to

Why do Pythoneers reinvent the wheel?

2005-09-09 Thread Stefano Masini
On 8 Sep 2005 08:24:50 -0700, Fuzzyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is pythonutils ? > = > ConfigObj - simple config file handling > validate - validation and type conversion system > listquote - string to list conversion > StandOut - simple logging and output control objec